Fruition Garden Journal
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My Favorite Tomatoes & Starting from Seed
My Favorite Tomatoes & Starting from Seed
Tomatoes are quintessential summer. Whether it's fresh salsa from the garden, a satisfying slice on a sandwich or dropping wedges onto the top of a frittata just as it enters the oven, tomatoes are one of the simplest ways to make me smile in any season.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Chiapas is always the first and last tomato we harvest. Super early, super productive and super disease resistant, it's also super delicious.
Honey Drop ripens right after Chiapas & is lusciously sweet, similar to Sungold in both flavor and size. The biggest difference? Sungold is an F1 Hybrid owned by a multinational corporation while Honey Drop is open-pollinated (so its saved seed will grow true to type) and is owned by no one, so we all have access and will for generations.
Gold Medal has remained one my favorite tomatoes for decades. It's massive! With flavor rich and fruity, it's cross-section is marbled red, orange and yellow....
7 Essentials of Seed Starting: an Infographic
7 Essentials of Seed Starting
Many gardeners want to start seeds more successfully, so my friend Sal and I created this gorgeous infographic for you:
Where do I get...
...the LED grow light that we use? Here.
...easy to use soil blockers to make gorgeous soil blocks? Here.
...organic potting soil? Here.
...a heat mat that will change my life? Here.
And for our Ultimate Seed Starting Collection, head here.
What inspired us to make an infographic for you?
Dreaming of the season ahead, my dear friend Kc inspired me to make a list of the 7 essential things she needed to know to start seeds well...
...then I'm scheming to make supper with my dear friend Sal, whose illustrations are as vivid and whimsical as her gardens and stories. Eureka! Sal and I had SO much fun laughing and learning as we brought to life the 7 Essentials of Seed Starting through visual story.
Welcome to Sal's Garden!
Questions for Sal:
Petra: Whose advice do you always listen to?
Sal:...
Rise & Shine: Starting Seeds with Ease ebook
Rise & Shine:
Starting Seeds with Ease ebook
We've been asked for years to demystify seed starting.
Rise & Shine finally shares everything you need to start seeds successfully at home with easy-to-follow instructions and insightful tips for the novice and experienced grower alike. For the cost of a few seed packets, purchase and download Rise & Shine here.
"I've grown Fruition's seeds and starts for years but I've never had much success starting seeds indoors. Rise and Shine brought growing plants back into our lives and my children have loved caring for our seedlings right on our dining room table."
-Jessica (age 36), mother of Zoe (9) and Tristan (6)
Everything we've learned from decades of seed starting, distilled into 25 pages:
Table of Contents
The Anatomy of a Seed
The Anatomy of a Seed Packet
Sowing Seeds Directly in Your Garden
If Cucurbits Could Talk
Direct Seeding Chart
5 Considerations for the ‘Think Outside the Row’ Gardener
15 Steps...
9 Questions for Sourcing Seed (and what to really ask about GMOs)
Here are nine key questions to source the best seeds possible for you, making your garden beautiful and abundant from the start.
At the end is my (inimitable) response to one of our most asked questions:
"Are these seeds GMO-free?"
Most importantly:
Stay curious, ask questions & have fun!
May the seeds you sow amplify abundance for all for months and generations to come :)
