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Homegrown Video: How Does My Garden Grow?

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Homegrown Video and What's in my GardenKale starts, two months later you did me proud. Having discovered the video setting on my point-and-shoot camera, has...
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Snip It: The Best Way to Pick Cherry Tomatoes

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My heart belongs to the big ol' Daddy tomatoes, the slicers, the small planets that make a BLT (and again, my heart) sing.  Sure ...

How to Make Ketchup & Blue Ribbon Redemption

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As good as it gets: homemade ketchup from homegrown tomatoes via some lessons learned. My culinary redemption is complete. As some of you may recall, my last attempt to...

How to Make a Tomato Trellis: A Cagey Alternative

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Tomatoes need our support.  (You trying maintaining vertical with 10 pounds of green, red orbs hanging off your branches. ) Some people cage them...
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Growing Tomatoes: When Plants Are All Legs

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Uh oh Boz, I know that look, the scowl of an unhappy bulldog, judging me for taking too long to plant all of my tomato starts. (Gracie...
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Picking Favorites: Great Tomatoes for Puget Sound

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Don't let cool summers keep you from growing the season's finest garden treat. Of all the tomatoes I planted this year, here are some my...
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Tomato Plants: Leave the Little Suckers Alone

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Pinching tomato suckers: not on my garden to-do list Step away from the tomato plant and no one gets hurt. Garden myth: you should pinch tomatoes...

The BLT: Assembly (and a Little Driving) Required

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  While my list of favorite things about summer could stretch to Portland and back, I find the BLT (a.k.a. Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich) is...