Grape Tomato- The rising popularity
Once and a while a new vegetable or fruit becomes very popular, such was the case with the hybrid strain of the grape tomato. The original tomato plants produced a plum sized tomato and the only way to make the larger and rounder sizes we are used to today was to cross breed them, making them a hybrid. Tomatoes were also cross bred to make them smaller, such as the cherry tomato and then even smaller to make the popular grape size tomato. Cherry tomatoes when …

What kind and size of vegetable container do we use for our container garden and what type of soil?
Containers
So what kind of container are you going to use? The answer is just about anything. You can use buckets, an old bathtub, wheelbarrow, square containers, round containers, just about anything you can find. What should they be made of? They can be made of wood, clay, plastic or ceramic. They all should have an adequate number of holes for proper drainage.You should try and raise your container an inch or two …

Our first entry on starting our organic vegetable garden for 2010.
Well its February 8 and time to start planning our organic vegetable garden for 2010. As you can see from the picture, its completely under snow.We be adding a lot of new vegetables and a few herbs this year and cutting back on some. We planted so much lettuce and spinach last year we only ate a third of it. So this year we will cut back on lettuce and spinach and we are going to space out the plantings …