Spring newsletter

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We've started thus season's heirloom tomato transplants and plan to have the following varieties available for adoption around the end of May:

Green Zebra
Black Krim
Beefsteak
Brown Berry
Jaune Flamme
Rutgers Select
Silvery Fir Tree
Glacier
Rose de Berne
Brandywine, Red and Pink
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Gilbertie Paste
San Marzano
Patio Orange
Lime Green Salad
Tiny Tim
Ceylon
Cosmonaut Volkov
Moskovitch
Red and Green Grape
Angora Super Sweet
Wisconsin 55

Also, we'll have several kinds of basil and lots of other herbs!

Perennials are starting to peek through the snow and can be taken home at bargain prices beginning in mid-May. Call to make sure we're home before you visit.

Home improvements including much needed house painting and fence repair will be underway, but our first priority is always the garden so you'll find us home working outside 'til dark on most weeknights, and dawn to dusk weekends! Will not be available on April 30th, otherwise we welcome visitors with advance notice.

For a free copy of our current complete newsletter mailed to you, call (315) 689-1305 and leave us your name and address, or Email dhughes45961@usadatanet.net with your contact information. If you have Microsoft Publisher, I can send it to you.

Happy Spring and Happy Planting!

Tomato trials of 2004

It was a bad year for tomatoes in Central New York. Too wet, too cool, too much of everything except sunlight. Many, many plants set a lot of fruit early in the season and then waited for two solid months before ripening anything. We started with stocky, well-grown transplants and ended with generally ho-hum yields of nevertheless spectacular fruit. Let's hope 2005 is both drier and warmer and our transplants will surely be the star performers they have always been!

We are planning to have the following varieties of tomatoes available as transplants around the end of May:

Cosmonaut Volkov
Gilbertie Paste
Tiny Tim
Rutgers
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Green Zebra
Green Grape
Cherokee Purple
Rose de Berne
Brandywine
Wisconsin 55
Yellow Pear

... and others as suggested by our customers. Is there a favorite open-pollinated or heirloom variety you will let me grow for you? Please Email your suggestions to dhughes45961@usadatanet.net
We will also be offering 7 varieties of basil, rosemary, thyme and other culinary and medicinal herbs.

We specialize in blue for the garden and several new perennials will be ready for offer this summer. Among the varieties that are currently overwintering in the Gardens are:

Lobelia siphilitica Great lobelia
Salvia azurea Azure sage
Salvia sclarea Clary sage (biennial)
Nepeta transcaucasus Catmint "Blue Infinity"
Verbena officinalis Blue vervain

Our latest newsletter is in production. For a free copy by mail, send a message to dhughes45961@usadatanet.net.