Comments for Amarosia Organic Garden

Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by rowena

rowena — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:38:34 +0000

The best plum tomatoes for our climate seem to be ‘Mountain Roma’, ‘Black Plum’ and ‘San Marzano’ all of which ripened in the field in our short season.
Something you might try is using red plastic underneath the plants. This reflects the appropriate wavelengths of sunlight back to the fruits and encourages early ripening.
The earliest tomatoes we grew this year were Latah and Bloody Butcher, which are small red slicing or salad tomatoes.
I hope this helps:-)
Rowena

Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by keith wheeler

keith wheeler — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:36:56 +0000

Anyone,
Help! re: Keith Wheeler’s comment.

Comment on Heritage Tomatoes by keith wheeler

keith wheeler — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:34:45 +0000

Hi,
Can you help? My growing season for tomatoes is long enough but I am stuck with a narrow strip of garden that is surrounded by trees. The garden gets maybe 5-6 hrs of direct sun a day which results in small crops. Are there any tomatoes, especially of the Italian plum variety, that can do well with limited sun? Thx! Keith Wheeler

Comment on Farm Share - Week 20 Sunday by organic boxes

organic boxes — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:08 +0000

Your box was a lot like the one I got here in the UK last week except we didn’t get purslane. I suppose you must be at about the same seasonal stage as us. We got sweetcorn again, which is lovely but I’m running out of ideas. I’m doing fritters tonight any other suggestions? I’m enjoying your blog and hope you don’t mind occasional commenting

Comment on Sell the best and keep the rest by Shayla

Shayla — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:06:22 +0000

You’re right. As customers we’ve been taught to expect veggies to look a certain way. Sometimes I find they almost look plastic, they’re so perfect. Give me a heritage tomatoe any day!

I’ve really been loving all the great produce I got this season from you at the Moncton market. You guys try unusual veggies which is a lot of fun.

I used to work at the foodbank in Woodstock and we would rarely give out veggies. Everything was white flour and sugar. We even got complaints from a doctor because of children who’s families got boxes were suffering from malnutrition.

I have a ‘no strings’ attached award for you at my blog if you accept them. I’m very happy to have such a great source of organic veg in my community. Keep up the great work!

Comment on Health Advisory Needed by mel

mel — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:03:40 +0000

I did not!!!

(How did you know?)

Comment on Black Magic by rowena

rowena — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:39:42 +0000

We’d love your veggie scraps, though the challenge would be getting them to us. Dave leaves the Moncton market around 2 each Saturday… but unless you want to see him every saturday you’d need to store your scraps for some time!

Alternatively you could compost them with worms (I should write a post on this). A little worm composting unit can be kept in the kitchen, does not smell, is great for kids AND you can grow herbs etc on a windowsill in the wonderful compost they produce:-)

All you need is a rubber maid tub, some shredded newspaper and some worms. If you were to come by some time you could take a look at our unit as its super simple to make.

Comment on Black Magic by mel

mel — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:23:40 +0000

Go compost! Yay for dirt!

I’ve been wondering if I could bring you MY compost. (Is that weird?) We’re not able to compost here, but SOMEBODY must want the food waste from a vegetarian family, right? Want it?

Comment on Big sigh of relief by Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:28:00 +0000

Bravo guys! Well deserved, I’m sure!

Comment on Ground Cherries, Alias… by mel

mel — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:33:01 +0000

Hooray for ground cherries! They were so delicious and interesting that I took some along with me to a house concert I went to this week. They were sampled delightfully and marveled over (and, of course, I was sure to let everyone know where they came from!).