TOMATO, PEPPER & EGGPLANT

This short video shows some quick and easy ways to use up all those tomatoes you harvested this year.

The diversity of peppers is truly amazing! Did you know there are 38 species of Capsicum peppers, including Capsicum annum — the most commonly cultivated pepper species in the world? These species include a variety of peppers that are grown worldwide and valued as fresh vegetables, spices, medicine, and ornamental plants. The wild ancestors of all peppers grew in tropical South America, but these fruits now grow around the globe and are important to many cultures. Here in Can

In this comprehensive online article, Ame Vanorio of Morning Chores outlines all the basics you will need to grow peppers. Although the varieties she mentions may not be as well adapted to northern, short season, growing, she provides the basic steps and knowledge you will need. Read the article HERE.

Most gardeners who grow tomatoes at home, whether outdoors or in a greenhouse, rely on standard commercial varieties such as Sweet Million and various Plum or Beefsteak varieties. However, the seeds that most of us are buying are not the best to grow. If you switch to a more northern adapted variety, such as Scotia or Bellstar or Sub-Arctic or Red Alert, you will have better results with tomatoes in our challenging climate. My current collection of tomato seeds, some from com

In the summer of 2020, I had an infestation of aphids in my main tomato greenhouse, an event that I had not experienced in about thirty consecutive years of growing tomatoes. I don’t use synthetic pesticides, so I needed to figure out some form of control or remediation. I tried spraying with mint, tea tree oil, lavender, essential oils, soap and neem oil in succession. None of this seemed to have much more than a temporary effect. I opened a large section of the greenhouse t