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If You Really Want Fresh...
...then grow it yourself! Start your day by stepping outside and picking just enough strawberries for your cereal, enjoy fresh spinach and spring onions in your lunchtime salad, steam some newest-of-the-new-potatoes
Dreaming of Spring....
The ground may be frozen, we can see our breath in the air, and the best place to be is curled up warm inside, but that doesn't stop us from dreaming of spring. So grab a cup of cocoa and your magazines, and start
What Is Happening To My......
Sorry about the picture: like most gardeners, we prefer the beautiful parts of gardening. But this is nature, and nature ain't always pretty! This is an example of Blossom End Rot. It is a calcium deficiency most common
Late Potato/Tomato Blight
In the past week, there has been a lot of media coverage of the Late Potato Blight, which also affects tomatoes. We do not feel that is a threat to home gardeners in our area in most circumstances. The disease has been
World's First Seedless Tomato!
This is truly an exciting introduction: a virtually seedless tomato! We don't think we can describe it any better than this excerpt from Burpee themselves: "We’ve come to appreciate seedless watermelons and virtually
Hot Hot Hot: Bhut Jolokia Peppers
Recently recognized by the Guiness Book of World Records as the World's Hottest Pepper, the Bhut Jolokia is taking the pepper-eating world by (fire)storm. 200 times hotter than the jalapeno, it is almost indescribable