Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato

...s a wild-type tomato that grows without supplemental irrigation. Many avid vegetable gardeners have probably had the experience of tomatoes that reseed and grow without care. In my experience these hardy rogue tomatoes are invariably on the cherry side of the tomato size spectrum. This makes sense as the tomato’s wild ancestor is much smaller than modern beefsteak varieties. Matt’s Wild Cherry was obtained in Hidalgo, Mexico by Teresa Arellanos de...

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Of Skunks, Sauerkraut and Stoicism

...We were honored when the nice folks behind Stoic Week 2013 asked us to write a blog post. It begins, Practicality is why stoicism works so well as the philosophical operating system of urban homesteading. While Foucault and Hegel might help me navigate the epistemological frontier, when I’m staring at a carefully tended vegetable bed that just got destroyed by a skunk, you can bet I’ll reach for the Seneca. Read the rest here....

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Saturday Tweets: Micro Campers, The Whole Earth Catalog and a Post-Antibiotics Future

...ure” by @FERNnews https://t.co/XJJyTmD6FB — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 28, 2015 Head Of The Episcopal Church Says It's 'Sinful' To Ignore Climate Change http://t.co/qEmnNBY1E5 via @HuffPostRelig — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2015 Building Healthy Soils in Vegetable Gardens: Cover Crops Have Got It Covered Part III: http://t.co/UB9ArF0meh #aaatopblogs #feedly — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 4, 2015 "The world is a place w...

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Dry Climate Vegetables

...of a terrible drought. And unfortunately, most of the seeds we buy for our vegetable gardens are adapted to require lots of water. One solution is to find veggies that have reseeded accidentally without supplemental irrigation. Here’s a short list of reseeding rogue veggies from our garden that have thrived with just the small burst of rain we got last month. New Zealand Spinach The one I’m most excited about is New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tet...

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