July 30th Harvest

Check out the beautiful assortment of veggies that I harvested today. Some items came from my plot and some from the communal bed. Yum!

New Pictures Added - Garden Album

More pictures of our garden have been posted to the album - take a peek and enjoy! By the way my daughter (Anna) loves the bean tee-pee and the tire play area!!

Saving Tomato Seeds

The tomatoes are ripening. We are trying to collect free seeds for everyone for next year. If you're growing an open-pollenated tomato, here's how to save the seeds.

1. Scoop out the seed pulp.
2. Put it in a fine metal sieve.
3. Use a scrubbing brush and your hands to remove the pulpy coating off the seeds. Then scrub the whole mess with paper towel to remove the seed coating. Make sure each seed is free of its coating.
4. Place the seeds on a fresh paper towel to dry overnight.
5. Pick the seeds off the paper towel and put them in a labelled paper envelope.

If your seed come from the communal plot, please give the envelope of seeds to Nancy.

How to tell if your tomato is open-pollenated

Google the name of the tomato. If the terms heritage, heirloom, OP, or open-pollenated come up in the descriptions, then the seeds are worth saving. If the term hybrid is included, the seeds are not viable.

Never put tomatoes in the fridge. Tomatoes lose their flavour when exposed to temperatures below 10 degrees.

New Pictures Added - Garden Album

This is an exciting time of year!!! I am sure most of you have picked from our communal bed (or your own plots) and have enjoyed munching on fresh veggies! It`s hard to believe that all of these big beautiful healthy plants came from tiny seeds, but here they are...and they look and taste excellent! Check out some new pictures in our garden album:)