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Gapeys Grub

Paula Thomas's homestead and food adventures

Category: Gardening

Must Grow Tomatoes

It’s the beginning of March and that is the time I start my tomato seeds. I love trying new varieties every year, but I always grow a few I’ve grown before because they are so good that I just have to grow them again. I will be growing 20 varieties this year and these are… Read More Must Grow Tomatoes

March 5, 2019May 13, 2020 gapey7 Comments

Tomato and Pepper Varieties 2017

For the past couple of years I have been blogging about the tomato and pepper varieties I’m growing for the year and every year I seem to grow a little more of them.  Last year it was 22 tomato varieties and 12 pepper varieties. This year I’m also doing 22 tomato varieties but will be… Read More Tomato and Pepper Varieties 2017

March 17, 2017May 13, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

Best Fruit and Vegetable Varieties to Grow

I have been growing a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in the garden the past couple of years and have a few favorites I wanted to write about that I’ll definitely grow again and think you should try too. Garlic I prefer the hard neck varieties of garlic because I enjoy the garlic scapes… Read More Best Fruit and Vegetable Varieties to Grow

December 30, 2016May 13, 2020 gapey1 Comment

Tomato and Pepper Varieties 2016

An assortment of last year’s varieties (Dester & Latah not pictured) I’m growing more varieties of tomatoes than I did last year as if 15 wasn’t enough. I’ve got 22 varieties started. I’ll just be putting one plant of each in the garden but have started 3 of each and will be selling off the… Read More Tomato and Pepper Varieties 2016

March 4, 2016May 13, 2020 gapey1 Comment

Seed Swaps – Free Seeds

I’ve become addicted to seed swaps over the course of a year. There are so many different ways you can get seeds besides buying packets online or at your local big box stores. I can’t even count the number of seed swaps I’ve participated in the last year. I’m sure it’s over 20. I should… Read More Seed Swaps – Free Seeds

February 9, 2016May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

2015 Bean Varieties

I’ve never grown beans from seed before but harvested what was already planted by previous owners last summer. I don’t even know what variety they were but they were obviously a pole bean and had nothing to climb on which made it a challenge to harvest. I didn’t save any of the seeds because I… Read More 2015 Bean Varieties

June 2, 2015May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

This Year’s Lettuce Varieties

In addition to planting a bunch of tomato and kale varieties, I’ve also planted quite a few lettuces (7 of them) and they are just about ready to harvest. There are a few more varieties I will be starting soon to replace these after harvesting. I had originally planned to put the lettuce in the… Read More This Year’s Lettuce Varieties

April 23, 2015May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

Backyard Garden

This is my first year planning and planting a garden that is big enough to actually require detailed planning. I gotta say it’s kind of fun. My parents always had a garden in the backyard but the majority of it was filled with tomatoes and peppers and not much greens of any kind.  I also… Read More Backyard Garden

March 4, 2015May 14, 2020 gapeyLeave a comment

Garden Compass App

It’s been a busy few months! I unexpectedly sold my house to my neighbor’s sister and managed, within a couple of months, to find a newer bigger and better home that’s 15 minutes closer to work. It was a little more than I originally planned to spend but still affordable. I had an awesome realtor… Read More Garden Compass App

August 27, 2014May 14, 2020 gapey1 Comment

How I got into IFBC 2010

IFBC 2010 is the 2nd Annual International Food Blogger Conference organized by Foodista and has a host of other sponsors including Sur La Table and POM Wonderful. I didn’t know I was going to IFBC until Friday, the first day it started, though I would only be attending for one day. I remembered several months… Read More How I got into IFBC 2010

September 1, 2010May 14, 2020 gapey5 Comments

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Dropped 24 varieties of pepper seeds this week. See what varieties I’m growing in my new YT video.
We got some new solar lights for the backyard, gifted from @solagardenus, hung up over the weekend. They look great over the compost bins. No longer need a flashlight for those night time runs to the compost! PAULA10 will get you 10% off at solagarden.co
1 of these eggs is not like the other! We got our first two dozen eggs of the year by end of February. I thought we might get 2 dozen olives but she stopped laying again, then Charlie, our chocolate layer started up and then,we got a blue egg. More should be starting soon, though we have several older hens that don’t lay much if at all with our oldest being 8.5 years.
Baby basil (Thai, opal and genovese) started on 2/16, almost ready to separate and pot up. So much new growth in the growroom in 2 short weeks. A new growroom update was posted this week.
Can’t wait for the warm weather and blooms to return. These are a few from last season’s garden.
Got a new light to try out from #spiderfarmer just in time for the fig cuttings which will be going under it soon. An unboxing and install just went up.
Seed starting season has begun and I’ve posted my first growroom update video of the season. I show how the seeds and fig cuttings are doing and go over all the other seeds I plan to get started this month. These are the onions and microgreens I have under LED but there’s more in my update.
If you love hellebores, you’ll love the Northwest Flower and Garden Festival @nwfgs this year! We got a sneak peek of the display gardens this morning and they’re looking great! As you walk in the door you can’t miss this impressive ‘Florafantastic’ display that is full of a variety of hellebores and other spring flowers designed by Flower Growers of Puget Sound.
I told myself I wasn’t going to root very many fig cuttings this year but I couldn’t help myself to some free local cuttings. I’ve got 5 varieties rooting and still have 3 more that I won from @iv_organics on the way.
If you've never been to the @nwfgs Northwest Flower & Garden Festival or have gone before and want to go again, it is coming up next week at the Seattle Convention Center. This photo was taken of the @treelinedesignz garden display when we went to the show back in 2018.
Radicchio is extremely cold hardy. It has been covered in snow a few times last month and withstood single digit temps and is still alive and nearly ready to harvest. These varieties are rossa and castelfranco. Do you grow radicchio?
It’s fig cutting season! I am adding 3 varieties to my fig collection this year. Last year I added 8 so I cut back this year. 🤣 the @iv_organics fig cutting event this month may change that though. If you want to see how I rooted them this year and what varieties, I just posted a vid showing a step by step process.

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