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Burpee Top Rated Products,  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:11 GMT  

Featured Review: Tomato - Jolly (1 pkt. 30 seeds)



Tomato - Jolly (1 pkt. 30 seeds)

Average Customer Rating 4 out of 5

"90 days.<br> Vigorous plants ripe with petite pink tomatoes in heavy clusters.<br> A long keeper with delicious, sweet flavor.<br> Wt: 1&amp;frac12; oz. Indeterminate.<br>Sorry, state laws prohibit shipping plants to Alaska, Hawaii, Arizona, California, Nevada. <br>Plants ship in spring at proper planting time. "
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Featured Review
5 of 5
Standout tomato
December 07, 2006
By Nevadan from Northern Nevada
Plant performance 5 of 5
Taste 5 of 5
Yield 5 of 5
"Jolly is the best small tomato ever! In our harsh northern Nevada climate, it performs unbelievably well and is delicious when picked and eaten right off the plant. One year, I grew Jolly in a half-barrel. It kept right on going to nine feet tall. I had to keep adding height to the support cage. This is one beautiful tomato, and I highly recommend it to everyone! It deserves a prominent place on the website."

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Cold Climate Gardening,  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:11 GMT  

Ethel Garden Gloves: Review and Giveaway
span class=”drop_cap”>I used to think garden gloves were for other people, not me. Oh, sure, I’d put a pair on to deal with brambles, nettles, and wild parsnip, but, on the whole, gloves kept me from feeling the moist earth and from grasping small weeds near precious seedlings. Most gloves didn’t fit me well enough [...]

Cadie's pair is on the right. My pair is on the left. Mine have been through the wash.

Cadie's pair is on the right. My pair is on the left. Mine have been through the wash.

I used to think garden gloves were for other people, not me. Oh, sure, I’d put a pair on to deal with brambles, nettles, and wild parsnip, but, on the whole, gloves kept me from feeling the moist earth and from grasping small weeds near precious seedlings. Most gloves didn’t fit me well enough to actually be helpful; they made me feel clumsy and inefficient. The idea that I should put on gloves to prevent blisters was laughable: they were so poorly fitting they would cause blisters.

But as the years went by, I came to see that moist earth feels wonderful, but once it dries on your skin, it doesn’t feel so great. And I realized that my gardening time is actually pretty fractured. I go out to weed in between other inside chores, washing–and drying out–my hands each time I go back in. I’ve yet to find a nail brush that does a good job that isn’t also a bit rough on my skin.

Ethel Gloves Are Different

And the world of garden gloves has changed significantly in the last twenty years, which is about as long as I’ve been gardening. Witness Ethel gloves. They are designed to fit women, and they are styled to appeal to women. Okay, so I’m not a fashion queen under the best of circumstances. I’m not looking for high style, but I do appreciate good fit. It’s what makes a glove worth using. (Though if the glam factor keeps any of my boys from borrowing the gloves, it’s served its purpose.) I was interested to see that the Ethel sizing chart was based on the length of the middle finger, and not on the width of the hand. For most gloves, when measuring around the knuckles, I am a medium, but with Ethel gloves I am a small. I wonder if middle finger length is a better determinant of hand size for women?

As they have done with many garden bloggers before me, Ethel Gloves sent me a pair to try. I’ve been wearing them for all the garden chores I used to not wear gloves for: routine weeding, potting up containers, pushing compost through the sifter, digging, raking, deadheading. The palm is simulated leather and seems thinner than the real McCoy. If I need to yank out brambles or prune roses, these aren’t the gloves I’d use, but I think they’d be fine for nettles or wild parsnip. And for really close weeding near tiny seedlings that I want to save, I take them off. They are just a little too thick at the fingertips for that kind of precision.

Since I’ve been wearing gloves for just about all gardening chores, my hands feel better and clean up is a breeze. The gloves can be washed, too. Not too long after I received my gloves, my daughter Cadie was given a pair. She also appreciates having relatively clean hands after gardening is done.

Win a Pair of Ethel Gloves

If you decided long ago that gloves were not for you, it’s probably time to revisit that decision. Gloves have changed, and you have changed, too. I’m giving away a pair of gloves to one random commenter, so you may soon have your chance to see if these gloves change your mind about garden gloves. Leave a comment before midnight Eastern time on Friday July 3rd. One comment will be selected randomly. Only one comment per person. Open to both U.S. and Canadian readers.

Buy a Pair of Ethel Gloves

If you don’t win, you can order Ethel gloves online here and save 10% by entering the code Climate10. This code is good through July 31, 2009. Shipping is free.

All Annuals Planted Now
Planted 6 Henna coleus and the last 2 Mint Mocha coleus and Midnight Lace vine. All annuals finally in the ground. Weeding next.

Planted 6 Henna coleus and the last 2 Mint Mocha coleus and Midnight Lace vine. All annuals finally in the ground. Weeding next.

Basil Decimation
My daughter just went out to her garden and found all her basil seedlings snipped off and left. Not eaten and not even wilted yet.

Decimated basilMy daughter just went out to her garden and found all her basil seedlings snipped off and left. Not eaten and not even wilted yet.


Organic Gardening,  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:12 GMT  

What’s the Funkiest-Looking Food You’re Growing this Summer?

Readers share reports about the funky-looking foods they're growing this summer.

Heirloom Vegetables: 6 Advantages Compared to Hybrids

Open-pollinated heirloom vegetables have many advantages over modern hybrid seeds. Most have superior taste and nutrition, plus they have developed resistance to local pests and diseases. And, to make them an even sweeter deal, you’ll be able to save your own seeds from year to year (unlike with hybrid seeds).

I want to use wood ashes from my stove in my garden. How much should I apply each year?

A soil fertility expert shares his advice on using wood ashes as garden fertilizer.


ScienceDaily: Botany News,  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:12 GMT  

Successful Initial Safety Tests For Genetically-modified Rice That Fights Allergy
In a first-of-its-kind advance toward the next generation of genetically modified foods — intended to improve consumers' health — researchers in Japan are reporting that a new transgenic rice designed to fight a common pollen allergy appears safe in animal studies. 
Ferns Took To The Trees And Thrived
As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment.
Virus-resistant Grapevines
Viruses can cost winegrowers an entire harvest. If they infest the grapevines, even pesticides are often no use. What’s more, these chemicals are harmful to the environment. Researchers are growing plants that produce antibodies against the viruses and are thus immune.

GoArticles Gardening Recent Articles,  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:12 GMT  

Stylize Your House with Exotic Furniture
A house is not just simply a living space that provides a means to furnish or ease your living requirements but something much more than that, since a house is all about the cherished, fulfilled and t...
Marijuana Seeds For Sale - How to Buy High Quality Marijuana Seeds Online
If you came here to find marijuana seeds for sale online - you came to the right place!

Here you'll find the list of best marijuana seeds suppliers. These international marijuana seed s...
Garden Lighting - Making Your Home and Garden Safer
Garden lighting has increased in popularity in recent years and is now a worthwhile investment as the illumination quality of solar-powered lighting has improved. In the early days of solar lighting,...
Advantages to Turfing
If you have a garden then you almost certainly have some grass, it is without a doubt the most popular plant in Australia! It's used in gardens all over the country for a number of reasons. Turf B...

Gardeners' World,  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:13 GMT  

Watering the allotment
I only water plants that look as if they might die - it's the 'tough love' school of vegetable growing!
Horseflies
I hate horseflies. I cannot see why they've been put on this earth, or any possible benefit they have.
The birch sawfly
[The children] were amazed when I told them that instead of a moth, the larva would turn into a sawfly the size of a hornet...

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Gardening Question of the Day (from The Old Farmer's Almanac),  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:14 GMT  

Gardening Question of the Day for Friday, July 3, 2009
How can I get rid of the black snakes in our garden? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.


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