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Tales of the Tomato..
When Europeans first found Lycopersicon esculentum (”edible wolf-peach”) in the New World, they viewed it with considerable suspicion. For one thing, it was strange looking and unusual tasting. For another, the Aztecs who gave it the name “jitomatl” were savages in the conquerors’ eyes; anything they admired was in all likelihood to be touched with deviltry. Spanish eyebrows... [Read more]
End of the growing season
It’s hard to believe that fall has now arrived, and in a few more weeks we’ll go from working outside and enjoying the benefits of summertime. To staying inside and keeping warm, while starting to think of the upcoming holiday season (as of this writing it’s only 84 days away). But, before we can warp up this growing season we must do a final harvest from the Earthbox and also... [Read more]
Cherry peppers have arrived!
Over the last few weeks we have been trying to determine why we haven’t been seeing any pepper develop on our plants. We had started to come to the conclusion that maybe these Pepper Cherry Hybrid plants just might not grow in the Aerogarden. With the main factor being that we weren’t letting the plant fully develop, due to using the shorter arm on the Aerogarden. But, before we... [Read more]
AeroGarden Salad Greens Review
It’s truly amazing just how fast 4 months can go by. Really it seems like just a couple of weeks ago, that we had received our AeroGarden and planted the Salad Greens kit. But, looking at the calendar it is the beginning of September. We are going to do one final harvest, then we will prepare our AeroGarden for our next season. So, in our review of the Salad Greens kit there are a couple... [Read more]
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