Growing Heirloom tomatoes Archives

Herbicide Drift: Public Enemy #1 to your heirloom tomato plants

By dramamamafive October 8, 2016 Garden Issues, Garden planning, Garden Tips, Growing Heirloom tomatoes, How To, Uncategorized 10 Comments

I have had a lot of headaches with herbicide drift this year, as I mentioned in this post. As you know, if you have had history with this problem, the…

Heirloom tomatoes in my garden: this year’s favorites, so far

By dramamamafive August 3, 2016 Garden planning, Garden Tips, garden tour, Gardening, Growing Heirloom tomatoes, HARVEST!, heirloom tomatoes, Uncategorized, What's Growing in my Garden 19 Comments

I love to grow heirloom tomatoes. (Newsflash!) I pore over seed catalogs with great interest, from Thanksgiving-time on (or whenever they come in the mail) and order seeds as early…

Too Many Tomatoes? Round-up of Recipes from my Kitchen

By dramamamafive September 10, 2015 Canning, canning recipes, Growing Heirloom tomatoes, heirloom tomato recipes, Recipes, recipes for the freezer, Uncategorized 2 Comments

We are smack dab in the middle of one of my favorite times of the gardening year here in the Midwest–harvest time! It gives me a thrill to see the…

Heirloom tomatoes: new favorites this year, fall 2015

By dramamamafive September 8, 2015 Garden planning, Garden Tips, Gardening, Growing Heirloom tomatoes, HARVEST!, heirloom tomatoes, Organic gardening, Uncategorized, What's Growing in my Garden 7 Comments

I planted a lot of heirloom tomato plants this year. News flash. Since I didn’t really have a plan for marketing them, having closed up our farmer’s market table this…