Fruition Garden Journal
video tutorials, tried-and-true tips + our latest learnings to surround you with abundance all season long
5 Keys to Preventing Tomato Disease (there is no silver bullet, but #1 is close)
5 Keys to Preventing Tomato Disease
(there is no silver bullet, but #1 is close)
Whether you hope to harvest 10 or 10,000 tomatoes, diseases like Late Blight, Early Blight and Septoria Leaf Spot are affecting your abundance every season here in the Northeast.
Here are the 5 keys to preventing tomato disease:
1. Start with disease-resistant seeds.
Sowing seeds with natural genetic resistance to these diseases is the single greatest thing you can do to increase your success whether you are an organic or conventional grower.
Often flavorful heirlooms have little disease resistance and modern varieties with tons of disease resistance have little remarkable flavor. There are exceptions though, and here are some:
Chiapas
A delicious heirloom tomato that shares the classic tomato genus but belongs to a separate species, so it has natural resistance to late blight, early blight and septoria leaf spot. Chiapas is always the first and often the final tomato we harvest each...
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 :)
13 New Seeds & Dahlias for the New Year
Happy New Year!
And welcome to Fruition’s new blog!
For years you’ve asked Fruition Seeds thousands of insightful questions and I’m so honored to share everything I’ve learned (and am constantly learning) with you in my new blog, Fruition Garden Journal.
Each week I’ll share seasonal stories, photos, video tutorials, tried-and-true tips and our latest experiments to keep you up-to-date, inspired and surrounded by abundance as the seasons go by.
My hope for Fruition Garden Journal is
-to save you time, money and heartache by sharing my successes as well as mistakes
-help you laugh and learn on your own learning curve
-build a community of passionate, curious growers who know seed is not as small as it seems
-sing songs as often as possible
New Varieties for 2018
Each year we find our new varieties that thrive in short seasons and are so grateful to share them with you.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Painted Lady Sweet Pea
Exquisitely fragrant...
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