A couple of additional gardening books that I am currently reading …

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The first book (Heirloom Vegetables: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Finding and Growing Vegetables from the Past) is an ideal beginners book.  About half of the book concerns the reasons to grow heritage vegetables and some of the details about how to find and grow them.  The last half of the book is a small selection of vegetable profiles and resources – including a very good list of seed suppliers and saver networks.  Unfortunately, when compared to the second book (Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener’s Guide to Planting, Seed Saving, and Cultural History), its profiles and resources show their true limitations.  But, the little Heirloom Vegetables book would make a nice gift for a new gardener or just someone getting into those special plants.  Read more »

Garden is doing well …

And, we are starting to get a regular supply of items … we have gotten a handful of small tomatoes, these two squash, and one large tomato.  But, from all of the fruit on the vines, we are going to have a lot of little tomatoes soon and probably 8-10 large ones!