Home Gardens to Go – How to Harvest Heirloom Seeds- Video with Belinda
Belinda with http://homegardenstogo.com is back showing us how to harvest heirloom seeds for gardening! [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AFfzchtwbc[/embedyt]
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Video – Seed Saving Tips and Organizing Your Seed Collection with Marjory Wildcraft
A few great tips from Marjory Wildcraft on organizing your seed collection…
Welcome to Painted Desert Seed Company
We select for family subsistence, based on landrace traits when possible, for easier regional adaptation. We also undertake ongoing trials to determine the suitability of heirloom varieties from around the globe that might take well to our regional conditions.
Blue Gold Berries in Harvest, Seeds Available Soon!
The Blue Gold Berries cherry tomatoes have been coming ripe over the last couple of weeks, and we are now in full seed-harvesting mode on these babies, with several pints per plant developing. Once dried, cured and tested, these seeds will be listed both on our Facebook Shop page at https://www.facebook.com/PaintedDesertSeedCo and here on our Painted […]
A Flair For Flavor
Next up on the January Hit Parade will be our Sonoran Flair beefsteak tomato, a medium-sized sandwich slicer, smaller than some beefsteaks, maybe tennis-ball-sized. This variety is selected from F8 Solar Flair seeds(nowadays spelled “Flare” instead of “Flair”), which were selected and provided by grower and originator Brad Gates at Wild Boar Farms. We will […]
Creating an insect habitat in the Ripley Garden
Everyone needs a warm place to snuggle up for winter. That includes members of the insect world! With this in mind, my coworkers and I created a beautiful overwintering habitat for bugs in the Ripley Garden! Call it a Bug-A-bode. Or a Bug House. Or an insect-ominium. No matter what you call it, hopefully it […]
The Hillbilly’s Back in Town
Look What Wandered In After an absence of two weeks from the catalog, we’ve got enough seeds out of the field to put the Hillbilly Beefsteak back on the roster. One of the choicest varieties available for summer heat, drought-worthiness, and just plumb great eatin’, whether on that Fourth of July burger or those zesty […]
Hardy Perennials Add Color to Your Winter
If winter finds you longing for those riotous colors of spring and summer, cheer up. You can enjoy a colorful winter that rivals spring blooms and fall foliage for sheer variety and color. There are lots of colorful plants that love the cold, and some even bloom in the snow!
Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum This tall and beautiful member of the Sapindaceae (soapberry) family is famous for its showy fall foliage, high quality lumber and sugary sap. The sap is drawn out by taps in the trunk, then boiled for syrup and sugar products. The Jamestown colony’s Captain John Smith documented how Native Americans tapped trees and […]