Ever heard of the mnemonic for remembering the colors of the rainbow? Roy G. Biv! At LP Farm Store we have tomatoes in every color of the rainbow. Blue you need a bit of an imagination because there aren’t any true blue tomatoes. Red- Manitoba and Sweet Million Orange- Amana Yellow- Lemon Boy Green- Green…
Tag: Vegetables
A to z veggies. Learn about various veggies and how to use them in various dishes.
Hot Peppers 2024
How hot do you like your peppers? At LP Farm Store we have 34 varieties of hot peppers to choose from. We sell plants in spring time and peppers in summer time. The mild jalapeño, the it’s getting hot serrano, and the knock your socks off dragon’s breath. Hot pepper heat is based on the…
Container Gardening
A good read on why you should use potting mix or potting soil instead of dirt from the ground.
Raised Canning Garden Plan
Another idea is to make a theme garden such as planting everything you need to make a Greek salad or everything you need to can. I have included a map showing how to plant a canning garden. Spacing the boxes: Boxes are 4′ by 4′ and rows are 2′ wide, but you can always widen…
The Archaic Garden Plan
I tried various methods to make my garden plan/map for the previous post. I tried drawing, but I realized quite quickly I don’t have the skills to make an eye pleasing map. Next I tried MS Paint and realized I need gridlines. My plants were doing the wave in the rows. Next up I tried…
Making a Garden Where There Once was Lawn
Are you a beginner gardener and it seems a bit daunting? In this post I’ll go through everything you need to do to have a successful garden. This post I’ll be writing about inground gardening. In later posts I’ll go into container gardening and raised bed gardening. Step 1 is finding the perfect spot to…
Making a Garden Plan
Having a plan either in life or in the garden makes things easier. It gets you from point a to point b or point z much easier. It can also minimize surprises, like planting 10 zucchini plants and almost filling your bathroom with zucchinis (for my market garden I only plant 10-15 plants and it’s…
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…
The 3 Markets
The two markets I attend are very different from each other and selling from my garden is different from markets. On my website I have maps and descriptions of where my various markets are and where you can find my garden. I’m open at my garden Tuesday and Friday 1-8 pm, and Sunday 1-6 pm….
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…
Pumpkinist Lora 