Phaseolus vulgaris

In my opinion, snap beans are one of the easiest plants to grow.  If you love beans, you should definitely have plants of your own!

The fresh seeds germinate readily and grow very quickly.  They are a warm season crop and require temperatures above sixty-five degrees to germinate.  Make sure your soil mix is light and fluffy so the large seed can push through the soil surface.

Prunus persica nucipersica

This nectarine tree flowers in the mid-spring with pink blossoms and produces large red skinned fruit. Necatrine fruit is best when ripened on the tree.  Pick while the fruit are on the firmer side.  Necta Zee generally fruits mid-summer.

Whenever I browse through a seed catalog, I am as wide-eyed as a kid in a candy store.  So many choices and varieties make me want one of each!  My first list of “to purchase” seeds is always insanely long.  Here are a few of my tips to narrow down seed selections.

Using your greenhouse to grow tomatoes is both challenging and rewarding.  Imagine going out to the greenhouse when the wind is cold and blustery to find a perfectly ripe tomato!

Growing tomatoes in the greenhouse is similar to growing tomatoes outside, just with a few extra considerations.

Pruning a tomato plant not only keeps an indeterminate plant under control in the greenhouse, it allows the tomato plant to "concentrate" on its fruit instead of wasting the plants energy on growing more leaves.