Rutgers tomato

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Oak Park Urban Gardening

Oak Park: Cheney Mansion's Head Gardener Charlie Ruedebusch demonstrates how to make a raised garden bed.

And here is another recent article from the Wednesday Journal.

Food Independence Day

Food Independence Day - Why are you growing your garden?

Also, submit your Kid's Gardening video here for a contest!

Seed Company in Iowa

Recommendation from another local farmer for Seeds : SeedSavers

Pea pods coming on

It wasn't very sweet- maybe I picked it too early. It was just a baby pod.

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Prune the tomato plants, part two

I didn't really follow all of the advice in the earlier post about pruning my plants. I've been reading on a larger debate about whether or not to prune at all, also how much to prune. I'm going to pinch the suckers only as I see fit and maybe top off the plants when I get some good fruit growing. I have flowers now, but the rainy-cold weather isn't helping them.

Prune the tomato plants

This is how to prune your Tomato plants

From David Epstein and the guy from Johnny's Seeds