Monthly Archives: October 2010

Though mine didn’t survive the deer attacks, I did, fortunately, give seed for this fine squash/pumpkin to several friends. Yay, to my surprise they were able to bring a number of them to maturity. So I have been very blessed in receiving a couple of beautiful Musquee De Provence AKA Fairy Tale Pumpkins. We had worked very hard, through the season, to hand pollinate them in order to keep them pure, so these will grow true to the parent plant.

Musquee de Provence

If you’ve never tried Fairy Tale Pumpkin, this is, not only one of the most beautiful pumkpkins EVER, but also one of the absolute best tasting pumpkins I have EVER had. Last season, I put together an amazing pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving and it was gone by the end of the evening. The flavor was unbelievable!

If you’re interested in seed from this spectacular beauty, it’s available. Not to mention, you’ll receive more than 6 or 7 seeds like I did, from my purchase three years ago.

In the next few days, I’m going to post how to cook and prepare your own pumpkin instead of that canned stuff that has no flavor at all. To top that off, I’m going to post an amazing recipe (the same one I used for the pie last year) for you to try this season. It’s great with sugar pumpkins too, so if you don’t have Musquee De Provence available, try it with a sugar pumpkin.

Don’t forget to sign up for our monthly FREE Heirloom Seed Drawing…you just never know what great items will be in each wonderful package.

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Happy Gardening

Well, it’s ready…as I said before, we’ve put together a great Monthly Drawing for FREE Heirloom Seeds! We’re so excited to get this going and get feedback on the varieties we offer and so forth. So don’t hesitate to hop on over to our sign up page for your chance to win one of our amazing packages!

Of course, we’ll ask you to offer feedback on what goodies you receive, but take a look and see what you think!

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GOOD LUCK and HAPPY GARDENING

After cutting open the last tomato, to save seed, I realized, “Holy cow! I don’t have any more to do.” What will I do after harvest? Sad thing is that many of my heirloom squash plants sit with fruits with big deer bites in them. BLASTED BEASTS!! If I wasn’t a hunter before, I can sure see a reason to become one now. Such beautiful pests…but pests none the less. I could go into more detail and tell you they PULLED UP MY STRAWBERRY STARTS….simply to leave them on the lawn. Grrrrrrrrrrrr

Well anyway, while the last of my tomato seeds are drying, I wanted to point out that I have decided to run a sale on those that I have quite a batch of. So if you want to take a look at the heirloom tomato seed page, you’ll see some great deals. This sale won’t be around long, so take a look and see if there’s anything you may not be able to resist.

http://heirloomtomatopatch.com/heirloom_tomato_seeds/

Off to do some more weatherizing…so….

Happy Gardening

After a very frustrating last few weeks of chasing deer out of the garden, I was able to salvage at least three quarters of what I planted, for seed. Unfortunately, the pictures couldn’t be taken as they were a bit nibbled on the ends etc.

If you think I’m joking about the deer from H E double Hockey Sticks, they even ate my Lupine (LABELED DEER RESISTANT) down to nubbins, not to mention, they picked it up with the last bite (5 gallon bucket, soil and all) and tipped it upside down.

These beasts managed to find their way into an 8 foot fence, that was guarded by two dogs, ate down every Dahlia plant, Rudbeckia plant not to mention more than 10 fig trees and 6 large grape plants. What is left are leafless stems that will hopefully survive. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to take cuttings from them until next year.

Anyway, it’s slow going, but the tomato seed database is coming along. I’m less than half way done, but it’s finally coming together. Currently, there are another 70 or so varieties drying with another 22 or so fermenting. They’ll all be added shortly, but take a stroll through and see if there is anything you like.

http://heirloomtomatopatch.com/heirloom_tomato_seeds/

In the next few weeks, I plan on putting together a drawing for heirloom seed packages. I'll explain more later, but for now....

Happy Gardening

Well it has been a frustrating yet rewarding experience of Tomato Gardening this year. As I may have mentioned, we have some aggressive deer that think they own the land we reside on. They have figured out how to penetrate an eight foot fence, 3-6 times per day. They eat anything and everything in their path, and they could care less if you want seed, they’ll simply slurry them all over the ground as they munch munch away at your hard work and efforts.

So, needless to say, it has been a strategic harvest this season. Though several varieties that I had planted, didn’t survive the deer attacks, I did end up with a nice variety of saved seeds. I’m still in the process of fermenting many of them, but with about 150 varieties saved from the nearly 200 planted, I didn’t do too badly.

Once the seeds are dry, I’ll be posting more available on the website.

Here are a few pictures of the process….

Needless to say, my kitchen counter is COVERED with seeds drying and fermenting.

Next season will be AWESOME!!!!