The votes are in! 2021 will mark the 2nd Annual Dallas Tomato Trials, a crowd-sourced test of heirloom tomato variety performance in North Texas. It also marks the first year that variety selection was made open to public voting. Many thanks to all those who participated in the voting process!
2020 marked the inaugural Dallas Tomato Trials, an informal but highly informative testing of 24 different heirloom or open-pollinated tomato varieties including 8 patio/container varieties. I also made these rare tomato varieties available for purchase as seedlings in March. I am very excited to announce that the tomato trials will be returning for 2021.
Like most peppers, serranos grow happily here in North Texas from spring right through until the first freeze. Learn how to transform your serrano harvest into a spicy, green salsa that goes with just about everything.
Though it seems just yesterday that we were harvesting garlic from our gardens, it’s already time to start thinking about next year’s crop. If you decide to order your seed garlic directly, July and August are good times to submit your pre-orders to reserve your garlic for October delivery.
The “Dallas Tomato Trials” started as a way to justify an overzealous heirloom seed shopping spree. Six months and one pandemic later, the success of the trial can be measured in both newfound knowledge and newfound community. The trial started conversations, created shared experiences, and delivered a sense of purpose during uncertain, stressful times.
There are two things that let me know it’s summertime in Dallas: the smell of fresh cut grass and the taste of homegrown tomatoes. And every summer, gardeners debate the same question: Are tomatoes ripened on the vine as good as tomatoes ripened on the countertop? Having grown tomatoes for…
What’s all the fuss about fall tomatoes in North Texas? When properly managed, fall tomatoes can even outperform the spring tomato crop. Here are the seven steps to growing fall tomatoes in your North Texas garden.
Late May and early June is the time to start seeds for fall tomatoes in North Texas. Here are some tips for getting started.
Growing onions in the North Texas garden is easy and rewarding. Bad luck in the past? Growing onions for the first time? The following steps will make all your onion dreams come true.
Craig LeHoullier, reknowned tomato expert and author of “Epic Tomatoes”, named the Cherokee Purple tomato in 1990 after receiving a surprise gift of seeds from a John D. Green in Tennesee. Green explained that the seeds came from his neighbor who claimed that the seeds were given to his family by Cherokee Indians a hundred years prior.
