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!

Enter To Win Here

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

Today we harvested another beautiful tomato fresh from the vine. It’s called a Black Master and what an amazing flavor and color! It looks like we will soon be harvesting tomatoes daily.

This amazing plant has produced a number of fine looking tomatoes, which means there will soon be tomato seeds available for it. Well that is after they are ripe, fermented and dried. The flavor of this Black Master is absolutely outstanding with it’s sweet and rich earthy flavor. The scent is so amazing, I’ve so waited to actually smell a tomato that really smells like a tomato! LOL Those things in the grocery store may as well be used for baseballs, cause they sure don’t resemble tomatoes at all.

After weighing the wonderful specimen you see below, it was a 6 oz beauty! It’s quite a nice producer of 4-8 oz purple brown beefsteaks. This is one tomato I will definitely grow again next season.

Black Master Tomato

Happy Harvesting