The Gardening Everyday

This year my family planted several varieties of heirloom bean seeds we purchased from Seed Savers Exchange.   We tried Painted Pony, Calypso, Speckled Cranberry, and Brockton.  We planted the seeds directly into the garden in early June after our long, wet spring.  Since we only purchased one packet of each, we were able to seed [...]

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I have recently begun to be interested in seed saving and preserving historical vegetable varieties.  While in college and during my first job where we performed variety trials to determine high producers in Oklahoma, I was definately concerned with hybrids and thought the old varieties were useless.  Now, in my home garden setting (and with [...]

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