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How to save tomato seeds

October 7, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 1 Comment

Want to save tomato seeds for next year? Tomatoes are a great choice for beginning seed savers. Here’s how you can make sure you’ll never go another summer without a taste of your favourite variety. As tomato season winds down (booo!), it’s time to think about saving the seeds of your favourites. Tomato plants that […]

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Tomato harvest 2010

September 8, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

I’d like to introduce you to some of the tomatoes I’ve been harvesting this year. I grow tomatoes every year, without fail. They are a must-have, even though they take up a significant portion of my growing space. For me, the major problem with growing tomatoes isn’t blight or blossom end rot. It’s choosing only […]

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Tomato order 2008

January 30, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

Green Zebra tomatoes from last year’s harvest. I put in my first seed order of the year today: eight kinds of heirloom tomatoes from Salt Spring Seeds. As usual, I’ve ordered way too much: last year I managed to squeeze five plants onto my tiny deck. And I’ve got seeds from three of those. Eleven […]

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Heirloom harvest

September 25, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

Heirloom tomatoes, clockwise from top left: Odessa, Black Brandywine, Green Zebra.   It was a dismal year for tomatoes in Vancouver – mostly due to the lack of a real summer. Unlike the heat waves and droughts experienced on other parts of the continent, we had almost autumn-like weather – rain and cloud interspersed with […]

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