You have the seeds and you have them organized, now what? Before planting them you need to make sure you have all the supplies for successful germination and growing. Seedlings without proper light will get leggy and weak which will make for a unsightly plant that may not survive when planted out. Not having a…
Category: Vegetables
A to z veggies. Learn about various veggies and how to use them in various dishes.
Start Indoors or Direct Seed
Some seeds need to be started indoors and some can be direct seeded in the garden. If you don’t have an indoor plant room or don’t care to start seeds indoors Penner Pumpkins Farm Store sells a wide range of plants online. Lorissa plans to have the website up and running by the end of…
Reading Seed Packets
Some seed packets have a wealth of information on them and some seed packets are bare bones. What does all the wording and numbers on the seed package mean? The year is when the seeds were packaged. 2020 means it was packaged last year. The yellow box contains information on planting. A tip for planting…
Seed Companies, Ordering Seeds
There are tons of seed companies out there. I have found my favorites and continue to order from those year after year. Occasionally I will try a new seed company if I need a certain seed and my major seed companies don’t carry it. What companies do I use? Stokes Seeds and Siegers (which is…
Ordering Seeds Online
Having a 3.5 acre garden I order a lot of seeds. I also use a lot of different companies so I can get the varieties I want and because of price. So how do you know which seed company to order from? Check out what kind of seeds the company sells. Heirlooms, hybrids, open pollinated,…
Veggie Plants
Sweet Bell Peppers Orange Yellow Red Green Black White Green Chocolate Friar Di Napoli (The 4-5 inch long tapered peppers are thin skinned and ideal for frying) Sweet Banana Growing peppers: Can be grown in containers or in the garden. Prefer full sun. Water as needed. $2.75/pot (2.5” by 2.5” pot) Eggplant Color Size of…
37 Varieties of Tomatoes
Bush Slicer Days Ind vs Det Size Notes Manitoba 65 6 oz Red, prolific Red Deuce 72 10 oz Red Red Morning 70 14 oz Red Primo Red 65 8.5 oz Red Crista 70 10 oz Red Sub Artic Maxi 48 2.5 oz Red, compact and prolific Beefsteak 72 8 oz Red Beefmaster 81 Indeterminate…
Hot and Super Hot Peppers
Penner Pumpkin grows 19 kinds of hot peppers. They sell both plants and peppers. From the non-hot jalapeno to the outrageously hot Carolina Reaper. The numbers are the scoville heat units. Peppers plants for sale. Non-hot Jalapeno Perfect for stuffing, no heat 0 Padron 1 in 20 is hot, green, 2 “ long. 500-2500 Garden…
So You Want a Garden!
Gardening is very rewarding and with a little research very doable. Gardening can be done in containers, raised beds, or gardens. To have the most success you need to know whether you direct seed the veggie seed or need to start the veggie seed inside. Now not everyone has a grow/plant room set up so…
Low Acid Tomatoes
Low Acid tomatoes are great tomato alternatives for people with medical diets, cold sores, stomach problems, and acid reflux. Many people have these problems so they need to find tomatoes with low acidity. (Source). The flip side is that there are no low acid tomatoes, all tomatoes have acid. Sweeter tomatoes may taste less acidic,…
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