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Tag: starting seedlings indoors

  • Growing Tomatoes (Indeterminate) in Zone 7b

    Growing Tomatoes (Indeterminate) in Zone 7b

    Tomatoes! Nearly every year, I grow more tomatoes than anything else. Enough to make gallons of sauce and to give them away in free piles outside my house. Indeterminate tomatoes are those that vine and sprawl all over. Determinate ones have neat and tidy bushes. I’ve only ever grown indeterminate. My tried and true tomato…

  • Growing Onions in Zone 7b

    Growing Onions in Zone 7b

    I have grown onions. Not every year, and not always with great success. It can be done, but it’s not as easy as, say, tomatoes (in my opinion). And since supermarket onions are cheap, it doesn’t always seem worthwhile. But according to my husband, it’s worth it. He always raves about our homegrown onions and…