What Are Heirloom Vegetables

Dating back to the 1800s, its unique shape and size are eye-catching, and it matures in as little as 50 days, making it a great choice for impatient gardeners like me. Carrots, celery and parsnips—oh my! Not sure what members of the Apiaceae family...

Have a wonderful, and delicious, summer. Bonemeal and rock phosphate are two good fertilizer choices. In fact, until I was an adult, I assumed pickling was the only way you could prepare beets.

The upright plant is excellent for container planting. Box Car Willie , named for the King of the Hoboes, offers a smooth red color with bright orange undertones. Rose-pink tomatoes.

I grew 12 different tomato plants and separated them into four groups of three plants. This year, I'm going to use the ReVita and the fish emulsion together on all of my plants and see if I can combine the positive attributes of both.

A shorter but similar blue-green popular variety is called 'Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch.'res purple-tinged, flat, toothed leaves that are much tenderer than the curly varieties. Both are members of the brassica family, but they're not quite the same.

They're round with deep ribs and beautiful, smooth skin. The skin is very hard, making it a long-lasting storage pumpkin, too. Baby Boo A super-cute mini-pumpkin with stark-white skin, this variety is exclusively for decoration and is a real hit with...

You may be able to sell these customers a few heirlooms, but probably not at a price much above that of standard, red tomatoes. Each one is different. “The variety of colors, textures and flavors is amazing,” he says.

Red Cored Chantenay Carrots The French heirloom Red Cored Chantenay is a stump-root type of carrot that features a broad shouldered top and a rounded blunt tip. The story goes that this small French heirloom was developed for easy pickling.

These days, it is also a trendy thing to do, but for years in little hamlets and coves all along the Appalachian Chain it was a way of life. I was also quite surprised to see my own name mentioned as the source for an heirloom cowpea!If you're interested...

It is obviously a labor of love for the author and her colorful descriptions make for good reading on a winter day. Tomatoes originate in the Andes, from the areas now known as Chile and Peru, but this favorite fruit, (yes, it is a fruit) has been embraced...

Serve as a side dish for beef or pork along with a green vegetable and a hearty bread, creating a filling, nutritious meal for the dark winter months.Rutabagas can easily be grown in any well-drained loam.

Parsley seed can be started indoors or outside and is very cold tolerant. Beware of squash vine borers and squash bugs! When harvesting, check the plants daily to gather small fruit.needs little to no added water when cooking, and can be roasted or grilled.Choices...

Stop fungal diseases before they attack the entire plant by rotating crops away from previous seasons' fungal spots: pluck off yellowing leaves from the bottom of the plant taking care not to touch healthy foliage; burn or throw the diseased foliage out...

Garnish with edible nasturtium, viola blooms, mint or berries.The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that we increase vegetable and fruit intake. Do you feel that this winter has been an especially challenging one?

Stir occasionally. Place beans in a serving dish, crumble the bacon and sprinkle the beans with the bacon pieces and chopped thyme.http://www.thatsmyhome.com/mainstreet/beans/green-beans.htmThe above recipe is NOT the typical Southern recipe.

These delightful heirloom cucumbers were named after lemons because of their vibrant yellow skin and rounded shape, roughly the size of a lemon. When cut in half, they reveal white flesh with a bright-green gel containing the seeds.

This keeps the roots warmer and drier than planting in furrows. Winter squash prefer well drained soil that isn't constantly wet, although they do like lots of water to produce the fruits.Make sure you give your squash vines plenty of room, they can spread...

Therefore this is best grown in a cooler climate. Fry the bacon briefly in the olive oil, then add the other three ingredients and cook until the onion, garlic and celery are transparent.

Growing crops that germinate at cooler soil temperatures also helps you get an early start. Maintain plenty of water in the soil, without making it soggy, to prevent bolting and poor flavor.

I've always grown husk tomatoes in crowded clumps, and the crowding hasn't seemed to reduce the fruit production, but commercial growers plant the seedlings a foot and a half apart and maintain 4 feet in between the rows.

Voiland grows more than 300 varieties of vegetables, with at least 75 different tomatoes. For an indepth, detailed and full-color exploration of heirlooms, get a copy of Heirloom Farm online or in a farm supply store near you.

By Cheryl Morrison Blooming Heirlooms Vegetables aren't the only plants with colorful pasts—think of heirloom flowers to add a bit of history and fragrance to your garden. People today are becoming more concerned with what types of food they eat as...

What we call Peas, and the rest of the world calls peas are two different plants We Southerners grow and eat our peas with a delight and devotion rarely seen anywhere, much to the curiosity of anyone north of the Ohio River.

Several years ago, a friend of mine shared seeds for a tomato she called "Pennsylvania Pink." It's become my favorite tomato for both flavor and production--a big, pink beefsteak, bursting with sweet fruity flavor.

She was telling me everything was going to be okay.Thank you for your gift Mom, I love you very much, and miss you terribly.All photos belong to Sheri Williams and her memories of her mom, Bessie.

We need to find ways to tap into those traits more effectively.” Jackson, Burke and other organizers of the Crop Wild Relative Genomics meeting held in California in late 2012 wrote the commentary with lead author and Cornell University professor Susan...

Taste the rice after about 15 minutes of cooking. Add the seeds and make sure they are covered with the water. To can cushaw, peel raw squash and cut into I” cubes. Cook over low heat until the onion is soft.Add the rice, stir to coat with the oil,...