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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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.
The Chocolate Cherry is BACK!!
After selling out of our popular Chocolate Cherry Tomato for 2016 just a week ago, we are proud to announce that the Chocolate Cherry is BACK!! Our schedule cut it pretty close, but we did manage a nearly seamless transition from 2016 stock to 2017 stock with none carrying over. Fresh from processing and testing, […]
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 […]
Spring Seeds Ready, Live Plants On The Way
Today it begins! Time to get ready for Spring planting. If you’re wanting to grow tomatoes, eggplants and peppers yourself from seeds, you need to get them planted indoors six to eight weeks before the last frost. In Tucson, Wilcox, Yuma, Deming and Southern Arizona, New Mexico and California along the Interstate 8/Interstate 10 corridor, […]
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 […]