Tag: Tomatoes

  • La Pomme d’Amour

    La Pomme d’Amour

    Today I return to an idea from recent post, “Intermingling”, but with a Taos twist. What, you wonder, is a pomme d’amour? And what could it possibly have to do with a high desert town in the southwest? Both good questions. And here’s another. Aside from the similarly staged snapshot in the previous post and…

  • High Tunnel Tomato Plants, Take Two

    High Tunnel Tomato Plants, Take Two

    Sometimes, when I’m trying to explain the many merits of gardening, I describe the cultivation of plants as a quasi-religious force in my life. Sincerely. Hyperbole? Perhaps, but there’s much in the practice of planting and sowing, cultivating and composting, even weeding and pruning and grafting that underpins my worldview, informs my optimism, and provides…

  • High Tunnel Hubris

    High Tunnel Hubris

    Looks like my spring 2023 veggie garden exuberance (and perennially Pollyanna optimism) served me poorly. As we all well know from the time tempered tale of Daedalus and Icarus, the consequences of taking risks can send us plunging. Or, in the case of cheating the calendar by prematurely planting tomatoes, tomatillos, and other delicate spring…

  • Green Zebras 1st in High Tunnel

    Green Zebras 1st in High Tunnel

    Green Zebra Tomatoes are first transplants of the season. Others to follow soon!

  • Transplant Soon?

    Transplant Soon?

    With the high tunnel prepped and heating up and a variety of organic veggie seedlings maturing, we just might be able to jumpstart garden planting by a month. Transplant Tomatoes Soon?​ (Photo: R.P. Murphy) We have been fortunate this year to have help getting our vegetable plant seedlings underway from the Amish family up the…

  • Homestead Haikus

    Homestead Haikus

    I often refer to Rosslyn as a homestead, but I’m aware that might mislead some of you. No livestock. That’s probably the biggest deviation from most self proclaimed homesteads. No chickens. No pigs, sheep, or goats. No milk cow. No 160 acre land grant (though we’ve slowly grown Rosslyn’s acreage to more than a third…

  • Coeur de Boeuf Haiku

    Coeur de Boeuf Haiku

    Coeur de Boeuf, Cuore di Bue, Ox Heart, Oxheart,… A bevy of bovine bywords for a bountiful, flavorful, and 100% practical heirloom tomato variety that we’ve been cultivating in Rosslyn’s vegetable gardens for over a decade. And since it’s seed sourcing season again — time to reflect on last summer’s vegetable garden and plan what…

  • Autumn Vegetable Garden Update

    Autumn Vegetable Garden Update

    It’s been getting considerably cooler at night lately, and feeling fall-like much earlier than the last few years. We’ve already had two nights that broke forty degrees! But still no killing frost. The vegetable garden is still thick with produce. We’ve been eating cantaloupes and musk melons just as quickly as we can. The same…

  • Rosslyn Gardens: Heirloom Tomatoes and More

    Rosslyn Gardens: Heirloom Tomatoes and More

    Rain, rain, rain. That was the main melody this spring, and all of that rain delayed planting vegetables. But as Lake Champlain‘s devastating flood of 2011 begins to subside, I shift my attention to the garden. The latest video update takes a look at what’s been planted in the garden including lots of tomatoes: Beaverlodge…