Last week we had a real cold spell and frost.  All of my tomatoes and peppers were well covered but they still got hit hard.  It looked like we lost them all.    Being heirlooms they aren't easy or cheep to replace.  We finally found a greenhouse not to far from here that sold heirloom tomatoes.  The only one they had that was the same as one I was growing was Brandywine.  So I got a few of them, as well as some ox harts, a Green Zebra, and some other white and  orange tomatoes to try. 

I went out last night to start replacing my old plants to find a lot are regrowing leaves!  I was sure they were dead, even the stems didn't look well.  But many have tiny pin head leaves starting to come back. 

So DH has to till up some more room for me anyway we will put the new tomatoes in the other section.

I did get our corn in yesterday and more potatoes planted.  We have about 50 lb of white potatoes left to plant.

When we were at the green house DH found some red seed potatoes.  These aren't just red skinned but red ALL the way through.  We put them in the kids garden.

Today we see our purple potatoes are coming up to!

Starting Thursday we are moving into a heat wave.  Fri is suppose to be 30 C but with a heat index of 38 C, that's 100.4F!!!  Quite a change from last week when it was freezing!

We still need to till up another section of the lawn, we are expanding our main garden plot.  But will do that in the early morning I hope to avoided the heat.  I still have my pumpkins, pie pumpkins, Italian zucchini, buckwheat and a few other goodies to get in.

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Posted by dhcfarm

Are you going to be saving seed? We did that last year and it was so nice to have the seeds on hand and we didn't have to purchase much. This year, we've got red black-eyed peas, pinto beans, popcorn and moon & stars watermelon. If we can, we'll be saving seeds from them for next year. They are all heirloom and/or organic seeds that we started with. All our seeds from the red black-eyed peas were some we saved last year.

If you do save seed, would you be intersting in exchanging some with me for some of what I have? That might be fun!

Edited by dhcfarm on 2008-Jun-4 at 09:50

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Posted by KimMC

Hi Susan,
Yes I'll be saving the seeds :-). The corn I planted this year was also saved from our crop last year.

I'd love to swap seeds with you!

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