How to Build an Inexpensive Garden Grow Light Station

How to Build an Inexpensive Garden Grow Light StationThis video shows you how to build a mobile grow light station you can put anywhere in your house for under $40. It will cover two seed trays worth of future transplants. You can save 100's of dollars by growing your own transplants. The video...

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Black Plum: Tomato Varieties

Black PlumHeirloomBlack - Deep reds and mahoganyIndeterminate 80 days to maturity2 inch grape/oval shaped fruitRoma/PasteThis is an heirloom from Russian. I grow this variety. I have made spaghetti sauce with it and it makes a rich dark complex sauce. They are great to eat alone off the vine, in salads...

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Black Krim: Tomato Varieties

Black KrimHeirloomPurple-Brown Deep Red/ Deep Green ShouldersIndeterminate 75-90 days to maturity10 -12 ounce flatten round shapeNaturally salty tasteAn heirloom that originated on the Isle of Krim by the Baltic Sea. It is a great tasting fruit that has a natural salt flavor. The flavor is sweet with...

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Black Cherry: Tomato Varieties

Black CherryOrigin UnknownPurple BlackIndeterminate 65-75 days to maturity1 inch round fruit clustersCherryHeat Tolerant This tomato get marks for being the only black fully round cherry tomato. Most of what you find in this size are plum grape shaped tomatoes. It has a sweet and rich flavor that is...

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Aunt Ruby's German Green: Tomato Varieties

Aunt Ruby's German GreenHeirloomYellow-Green shouldersIndeterminate 85-95 days to maturity12-16 ounce round fruit or largerBeefsteakAn heirloom tomato that came from Greeneville, Tennessee. It was introduced to market in 1993. A large beefsteak tomato with sweet juicy fruit. A report of a hint of spiciness...

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Amish Paste: Tomato Varieties

Amish Paste TomatoHeirloomRedIndeterminate 80-85 days to maturity8-12 ounce plum/ox-heart shaped fruitPaste/RomaThis tomato seed was first acquired from the Amish in Lancaster Pennsylvania and introduce to market in 1987. The seed originated in Madison, Wisconsin around 1870.  A meaty flesh that...

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

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Garden Seed Catalog Review: Tomato Growers

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Sandy Hook Tragedy: Managing Mental Illness, Reducing Mass Violence and Change

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Mrs. Smith's Signature Deep Dish Pies & A Great Give-Away Contest that is Easy As Pie to Enter

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Mrs. Smith's for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Don't forget to enter the give-away contest! Read on for details. There is a bit of a lul in the garden come winter-time. The holidays bring excitement and families...

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Come Join Femented Hungry Friends: A New Rusted Garden Community Hangout!

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What Kind of Garden Videos Do You Prefer: Help Me Plan 2013

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Please Join My New Google + Community: Tomato and Vegetable Gardening

Google+ has created Communities. It is the next big thing (or so I am told). I created a gardening community called Tomato and Vegetable Gardening.It is designed to create a community of gardeners that enjoy sharing information and talking about our passion... gardening. Please join the community and spread the word. The community will become what we make it. Why not be 1 of the first 100 to set roots?...

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December Update: Winter Container Greens and A Mini Hot-house

My goal was greens into December. We did have a nice week of warmer than normal weather but I think we under-estimate growing cool weather crops in our gardens. Fall and winter, in Maryland, doesn't mean pack the garden in. Most of it, yes, but not all of it. Lettuce and other greens do well.I took...

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Free Garden Vegetable Seed Catalogs: All In One Place

Vegetable Seed Catalogs - The Rusted Garden BlogI had a request to merge all the catalogs from my four blog entries into one place. I put them in this entry and on the bottom of my blog.I ordered all of these catalogs. You can get them in the mail or download most of them in PDR format. Now is a great...

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Winter Project One: Milk Carton Hot-House for Frost Protection

There is a bit of time to kill between now and next season. If you are like me, you want to get things into the garden as fast as possible. When you plant in spring, you often need something to protect plants from frost. Why not recycle your milk containers now? If you start making these in December...

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Creative Gardeners Wanted: A Poem about Simplicity

Now I am not saying creativity breeds anything more than well... something creative. One of the reason I enjoy gardening is because I am creating. I view it as a form of art. All our effort and energy, as gardeners, gets transformed and carried into something living. That is very cool when you think about it.I believe gardeners hold a common theme that binds us together in life philosophy and points...

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Introducing The Rusted Vegetable Garden Discussion Forum

I apologize for the 2nd entry about the discussion forum. I am linking up multiple pieces of the blog and need to run tests. December is the beta test for the discussion forum. I now have a link attached to each blog entry. I have created the sub forums to organize questions and answers and added a Daily Gardener section just for discussion.Please help me beta test it and check it out. Feel free to...

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The Rusted Garden Blog Now Has a Garden Forum to Talk

One of the changes I am making for the new year is that I am adding a FORUM to the BLOG. So the Rusted Vegetable Garden Blog now has a Gardening Forum at the bottom of the page.It works like all other forums. It has topics and places to ask questions, share information, show off your garden pictures...

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Sandy Soil for Great Radishes: Winter Planning for 2013

The words 'sandy loam' come up over and over again when researching radishes. One thing to do during the winter, before the new season starts, is to review what went well and what went poorly or could have gone better in your garden. I think I can get more out my radishes. So winter time, is research and planning time. A radish plan of attack next year is being created.I've done fairly well at...

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Free Tomato and Vegetable Seed Catalogs: Part Four

Here is the final blog entry for free seed catalogs. I will be reviewing the catalogs as the come in. It can be a bit overwhelming having 1000's of seeds to chose from. It is important to know the size of your garden and as well as the size of your budget. First thing first... enjoy the catalogs and...

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Garden Seed Catalog Review: Dixondale Farms - ONIONS

Reviewing the Dixon Dale Onion Catalog - The Rusted Garden BlogWhat I love about this catalog is they have 100 years of experience growing onions and that is all they focus on, aside from leeks.  They break everything down as if they have a 100 years of specialty experience. Which of course they...

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