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No Shortage of Dirt

I’VE BEEN GOING THROUGH my personal stash of seed packets, and I’m wondering if I’m a hoarder. As I write this, the world is still battling the coronavirus pandemic. Some people have been stockpiling toilet paper, cleaning products, and even cat litter. In light of widespread seed shortages (see Page 12), could I be accused of hoarding? You may be wondering the same about your own seed reserves. Once, I would’ve considered throwing out older seeds because I could always replenish them with fresh ones, but not these days. Every packet is treated as sacred, and considered viable until proven otherwise. The big sack of buckwheat that I’ve kept for five years will be planted as a cover crop soon, and carefully — no more lackadaisical scattering of seeds. And I’m…

No Shortage of Dirt

Mother Earth Gardener Advisory Board

ANDREW MOORE Andrew Moore is a writer and gardener in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Zone 6b). He’s the author of Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, a 2016 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in the Writing & Literature category. The book is available on Page 72. Although he’s now considered an authority on pawpaws, Andrew grew up just south of that native fruit’s range, in Florida. He's currently at work on a book about large mammal reintroductions in the eastern United States. His work has been published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Yonder, and American Gardener. His stories on North America’s native fruits have also appeared in Gardener’s sister magazines Mother Earth News and Grit. Follow his foraging adventures on Instagram @TheAndrewMoore. In this issue: You can check out another of Andrew’s foraging passions…

Mother Earth Gardener Advisory Board

Feedback from Our Readers

BRINGS BACK MEMORIES I’m really enjoying the Spring 2020 issue of Mother Earth Gardener. There are so many great articles that it’s hard to decide which one to read first. I never had much luck with carrots, but Andrew Weidman’s article (“Growing Great Carrots”) has inspired me to give it another try. I can’t remember the first time I helped my mom in the garden. It was always just part of every day during the summer months when I was young. I may not have been much help in the beginning, but I was always in sight of Mom while she gardened and I played in the dirt. When we moved from the farm to the city, the house came with about an acre of land that was always planted in crops.…

Feedback from Our Readers

Join the Conversation!

OUR FACEBOOK GARDENING GROUP allows you to connect with other gardeners around the world. You can ask the group’s help identifying plants, seek advice on growing techniques, or simply enjoy photos of beautiful gardens. Ask to join at www.Facebook.com/groups/OrganicGardenGroup. Each issue, we’ll select our favorite questions and answers posted to the group and print them here. I’m having a hard time finding organic seeds this year. Will my old seeds packed for 2018 and 2019 grow? Is there a way to see if they’re viable?— Sheila Davis Benson • Keep seeds cool and dry. Some seeds only last a year or so, but some seeds last 10 years or more. – Shelley Pederson • To check viability, put them in a single layer on a piece of wet paper towel. Fold it over…

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Recommended Garden Products for Summer

~ King Stropharia, also known as “Garden Giant,” is one of the easiest mushrooms for beginners to grow. Experienced growers have also been known to use it as a learning tool for cultivating fungi on hardwood chip beds or mulch in the garden. Gardener editor Rebecca Martin has used this kit to grow King Stropharia on wood chips in her Midwestern garden (Zone 6a), and describes the flavor as “almost beefy.” Others say the mushroom’s taste resembles potatoes cooked in a mild red wine sauce. The stem can be stringy, like asparagus, so it’s best to sauté it lightly in a little salted butter. For a treat, serve it on mashed potatoes or on toast with eggs. Also known as “wine cap” for their reddish color, these fungi are easily recognizable.…

Recommended Garden Products for Summer

Up-to-date news on how the pandemic has affected seed companies.

THE CORONAVIRUS has upended business for our seed company friends. Due to wildly increased demand, many have had to shut down website orders and stop answering phone calls and emails. Four companies answered our questions about the dramatic changes currently affecting their businesses. When did you realize something was up? When the national emergency was declared on March 13, we experienced a 250 percent surge in visitors to our website, our phones were ringing nonstop, and orders came flooding in. — Johnny’s Around St. Patrick’s Day, we noticed a jump in online sales, as well as increased traffic in our small retail shop in Asheville, North Carolina. It became clear that people were panic-buying when we had to enlist a bouncer to limit the number of folks in the seed shop! — Sow…

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Plant Picks for Gardeners Who Like to Break New Ground

‘Dester’ Tomato Recommended by Craig LeHoullier, Gardener advisory board: A few years ago, I was asked to attend the Seed Savers Exchange Tomato Tasting event at its headquarters in Decorah, Iowa. One of the first I sampled was a cultivar recently sent to Seed Savers called ‘Dester’ (Solanum lycopersicum). This tomato truly impressed me, and it ended up winning the tasting straw vote. Like many heirlooms, ‘Dester’ has a story. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds introduced ‘Dester’ and relates the history on its website: “The seed came to us from an Amish lady [Anna] just a few miles from our Baker Creek farm. Anna worked as a house cleaner for Dr. Dester and his wife in Indiana in the 1970s. Having acquired the seed from Germany, the Desters shared their favorite tomato seed…

Plant Picks for Gardeners Who Like to Break New Ground

The Secret to Healthy Soil

IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU that no really good definition of healthy soil exists. You can’t send your sample to a lab and get a “soil health number.” Labs can measure soil fertility, which is a measure of nutrients in soil, but that’s only part of the story. Descriptions of healthy soil tend to be vague and say something like, “Healthy soil sustains life, maintains environmental quality, and enhances plant and animal health,” but that doesn’t help a gardener much. I’m going to take a pragmatic approach to this topic and define “healthy soil” as soil having good structure with enough air, water, and nutrients to make your plants grow well. Plants obviously use the water and nutrients to grow, but it might surprise you to learn that plant roots also breathe…

The Secret to Healthy Soil

Made in the Shade

SHADY GARDEN AREAS are among the most challenging for gardeners. While brightly hued blooms often play second fiddle in a shade garden, the real standouts are perennials, shrubs, and trees with colorful foliage and interesting textures or forms. For this near-symmetrical shade garden, the designer combined multiple leaf textures to create a cool, calming space meant to flank a walkway or garden path. Plant this 21-by-23-foot shady nook at the front or rear of a home, or next to a patio or deck. All the plants found in this garden require less than four hours of sun per day and are cold-hardy down to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit. FROM OUR STORE GARDENER’S GUIDE TO COMPACT PLANTS Edibles & Ornamentals for Small-Space Gardening If you’re searching for plants that require less room and effort than traditional…

Made in the Shade

Transform Your Driveway Into a Vegetable Garden

I WAS SMITTEN with my driveway last summer. For several weeks, it produced tasty tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, summer squash, basil, bush green beans, and cucumbers. Throw in some lettuce, Swiss chard, and beets, and I ended up with much more than a garden; it’s also a conversation piece, a local gathering place for neighbors, a teaching center for children, and a chance to spread the joy of gardening. But wait! The driveway surface is concrete. What’s the secret to growing an annual garden bounty — a ton of fresh produce — in such a location? Why turn an automobile parking place (or basketball court, as the case may be) into a garden? Well, necessity is the mother of invention. You could also use a deck or a patio, or any place…

Transform Your Driveway Into a Vegetable Garden

LOCATION AND CREATIVITY

When we moved from Pennsylvania to Raleigh, North Carolina, 26 years ago, one of the first jobs on my to-do list was to remove a 30-by-50-foot patch of sod on the side of the house for our new garden plot. The sun shone well on the spot we chose, and for 15 years we had a traditional dirt garden. Then, because of the ever-growing trees in the yard, our garden spot began getting less and less sun, and production began to drop off. An area that gets at least six hours of direct sun will work for a garden plot, but when that hourly exposure drops to four hours or less, it can devastate a harvest. Not having a productive garden was too depressing to consider. Scanning our property for a…

Think of a drinking straw — hollow and rigid. Straw bales are tightly packed bundles of just such “straws” of dried hollow stems. Hay bales, on the other hand, are made up of bundled grasses. The most commonly used and widely available types of straw bales are composed of wheat. Oat and barley bales work fine too. Big-box hardware stores often stock straw bales, as do many smaller local gardening centers. It’s important to ensure absence of persistent herbicides in the bales. I was bitten by this a few years ago, when three of my bales killed my tomato plants. Be sure to ask your source about this, or your efforts could be wasted.…

COMPARISON AND SUCCESS FACTORS

TRADITIONAL DIRT GARDEN • Best spot for a garden in your yard may not be where the sun shines best.• Sweat generated when digging, weeding (throughout the season), preparing rows, and planting holes.• Drainage issues, depending on garden location and substructure.• Less watering and feeding.• Diseases and critters residing and building up in the soil.• Lower cost of goods.• Easier to manage vining or tall plants (stakes can be pounded into the soil).• Cool soil at root zone (especially if clay) can slow down plant growth and crop maturity.• Yield of crops is dependent on season, garden location, spacing, and care throughout the season. CONTAINER GARDEN • Move the garden to the sunniest spot in your yard.• Sweat generated lugging bags of planting mix, filling the containers, and more frequent watering and feeding.•…

COMPARISON AND SUCCESS FACTORS

CHOOSING CONTAINERS

The two most important decisions when choosing containers are ensuring that they have drain holes (unless you’ll use specially designed self-watering containers) and that each container is the correct size for the crop you plan to plant in it. Terra cotta pots look nice and work fine, but they need more watering because of their porous nature. Self-watering containers, though more costly, reduce the need for watering and provide a safeguard when you’re away from your garden and can’t water regularly. The vegetable types that are most sensitive to proper sizing, with respect to container capacity, are tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, all of which have significant root systems and a high demand for water and nutrition in the heat of summer, and vining crops, such as squash, cucumbers, and melons, which…

As we garden and learn more, we often find our minds changed and our techniques altered. This is the case with my philosophy on reusing container planting mix. I used to recommend tossing the used planting mix and starting fresh each season, because of my focus on a very disease-susceptible crop: tomatoes. More recently, though, I’ve decided that if the worst that happens is the inevitable lower and rear foliage spotting that’s due to the fungal diseases Septoria and early blight, then the planting mix in the pot is fine for reuse. This philosophy can be used for all crops. If the plants do well, you can reuse the planting mix. But if they suffer from a disease that had its origins in the root zone, toss the planting mix…

DIY Two-Wheel GARDEN CART

SURE, YOU CAN THROW 50 POUNDS of bone meal over one shoulder, tuck a hoe under another, and wrestle with a tray of seedlings as you teeter out to the garden — or you can build this all-purpose garden cart to make the journey way more convenient. The bicycle wheels on this cart will make negotiating rough terrain easy, and the plywood construction makes it sturdy, lightweight, and simple to build. The cart is well-balanced, so it’ll stay put in both horizontal and tilt-down positions, allowing for easy loading or unloading of materials. You can build your cart from treated plywood for greater longevity, but that material is harder to work with than standard plywood. I suggest using exterior-grade plywood, which is lighter, smoother, flatter, easier to glue, and easier to work…

DIY Two-Wheel GARDEN CART

Make a Rose Arise

ROSE PETALS LITTERED across the floor and the gentle click of pruning shears are some of the sights and sounds that surround me when working at my favorite pastime — propagation. The creation of new plants is one of the great pleasures of the horticultural world and is, for me, the primary reason for being a nurseryman. Propagation lies at the very foundation of horticulture. Whether from seed, cuttings, grafting, or budding, the result is the same: a new generation of plants. Through centuries of trial and error, propagators have discovered the easiest ways to produce the many plants that gardeners have been interested in growing. A great deal of effort has been devoted to the growing of roses. Several methods of rose propagation are used, and each method has its…

Make a Rose Arise

SUPERB Serviceberries

WHETHER YOU’RE LOOKING for a new fruiting specimen to include in your food forest, an appealing addition to your wildlife-friendly garden, or a useful and attractive ornamental for your yard, serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.) will fit the bill. Also called “saskatoon,” “shadbush,” or “juneberry,” about 20 species of Amelanchier are found in North America. Nearly all of these are native, so anyone can find a cultivar to match their needs. Most are hardy to Zone 4, though some cultivars are tough enough to thrive in Zone 1. Many serviceberry cultivars are good considerations for hedging material or for mixed beds with other shrubs and herbaceous perennials. Most cultivars also don’t require cross-pollination to produce fruit — a boon if your garden has limited space. The ¼-to-½-inch round fruits are borne in clusters…

SUPERB Serviceberries

SERVICEBERRY SAUCE

This versatile sauce is best served with cheesecake, over ice cream, or spooned straight out of the pan. Yield: 2 cups. 2 cups fresh serviceberries¼ cup granulated sugar2 tablespoons lemon juice2 tablespoons cornstarch½ teaspoon vanilla oralmond extract ~ In a medium saucepan, combine serviceberries, 8 tablespoons of water, sugar, and lemon juice. Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat, stirring often. ~ In a liquid measuring cup, whisk together cornstarch and 2 tablespoons water. ~ Slowly stir the cornstarch mixture into the hot serviceberries. Simmer gently for about 5 minutes. The sauce will thicken as it cooks. ~ Remove the sauce from the heat. Stir in the vanilla or almond extract.…

SERVICEBERRY SAUCE

SUCCESSFUL SPECIES

SASKATOON SERVICEBERRY (A. alnifolia) This multi-stemmed shrub can grow 10 or more feet tall. Saskatoons are best known for their delicious fruit; the cultivars of this species are the most popular for home gardens as well as commercial fruit production. A. alnifolia spreads via a rhizomatous root system, so give the plants plenty of room and be prepared for new ones to pop up periodically. EASTERN OR CANADIAN SERVICEBERRY (A. canadensis) This species also spreads by rhizomes. Eastern serviceberry can reach a height of up to 20 feet. If your soil is a bit waterlogged, this serviceberry can handle it. Look for cultivars with the tastiest fruits, such as ‘Micropetala’ and Rainbow Pillar®. ALLEGHENY SERVICEBERRY (A. laevis) This is one of the larger serviceberry species, occasionally topping out at 45 feet, although some cultivars will be considerably smaller,…

SUCCESSFUL SPECIES

How to Fight HORNWORMS

ONE JULY DAY, in two 80-foot rows of tomatoes in our hoophouse at Twin Oaks Community, I found 42 hornworms varying in length from 1 to 4 inches — a collective total of 85 inches of pests! They were stripping the tomato leaves and munching on the green fruit. Hornworms are large caterpillars capable of doing serious damage to tomato crops. The most common hornworm species in the garden is the tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata), but both the tomato hornworm and its cousin the tobacco hornworm (M. sexta) are bad news, and both attack tomato plants. Before Twin Oaks was established here in Virginia (Zone 7a) in 1967, the land had been a tobacco farm, so we have a lot more tobacco than tomato hornworms on our property. Hornworms in their caterpillar…

How to Fight HORNWORMS

PIECING TOGETHER PLANTS

TOTIPOTENCE REFERS TO the potential ability of any part of a plant — except reproductive cells (egg and sperm) within a flower — to give rise to any other part of a plant, or even to a whole new plant. That’s because all of a plant’s cells (with some exceptions) house identical genetic information. Depending on the cellular environment and other influences, a cell may become a root, a petal, or any part of a plant. I’ve made plenty of use of totipotence to multiply a favorite houseplant or shrub, sometimes doing nothing more than dropping some fantail willow stems into a glass of water and waiting for roots and shoots to sprout. Such asexual propagation, so-named because it bypasses using seeds (except in the case of apomictic seeds, such as…

PIECING TOGETHER PLANTS

ROOTING HORMONES

Auxins are plant hormones that play an important role in rooting cuttings. If you apply auxins directly to the base of a cutting, there’s a greater chance the cutting will take root, and rooting might be hurried along. Before synthetic auxins became available, savvy gardeners would help rooting along by soaking cuttings in the water in which the stems of willow, an extremely easy-to-root plant, had previously been soaked. It worked! The problem is that natural auxins decompose too quickly to be of practical use after they’ve been extracted from a plant. That’s where synthetic commercial auxins — such as α-naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) and Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) — come into play. Synthetic rooting hormones are available either in liquid or powder form. Concentrations and combinations of auxins vary by manufacturer,…

ROOTING HORMONES

GRAFTING FOR ALL REASONS

Given the few prerequisites for a successful graft, and grafting’s long history (dating back to 1000 B.C. in China), it’s no wonder there are many ways to join scions to rootstocks. Described below are three easy grafts I’ve used. The ideal time for these grafts is in spring, just as plants are awakening. Scions are best cut ahead of time so that they’re still dormant when grafted. Cut the scions—pencil-thick, 1-year-old stems—in late fall or winter, put them in a plastic bag, wrap the bag in a moist paper towel, and then put it all inside another plastic bag, well-sealed, in a refrigerator or cooler. Whip grafts are my choice when rootstock and scion are about the same thickness (pencil-thick). Cut off the bottom of the scion with a smooth, 1…

GRAFTING FOR ALL REASONS

The Loy of the Land

USE OF THE IRISH FOOT PLOUGH called a loy nearly died out in the 1980s, after centuries of farmers and gardeners using it to dig neat furrows all over the island. From the Irish laí, meaning “spade,” the loy’s fall from grace had been a long time coming: In the mid-18th century, the familiar broad-bladed spade you can find today in every hardware store — and nearly every garage and garden shed in the U.S. — began to take over the loy’s traditional position as the main tool for hand tillage in Ireland. Many years later, farmers adopted tractors as the most efficient way to work large areas of land with few laborers. Increased urbanization saw fewer and fewer market gardens and kitchen plots planted. PLOUGHING A NEW FURROW Eamon Egan watched…

The Loy of the Land

Homemade Organic Fertilizers

VEGETABLE GROWERS traditionally bring large amounts of nutritive materials onto their land to improve soil and plant function. Although adding volumes of compost and mulch is still the basis of fertilizing vegetables, these are often supplemented by modern fertilization materials. If these materials are concentrated, they can supply nutrient needs through very small additions of a only few pounds per acre, or even less. On our 3-acre property, Tobacco Road Farm, we’ve developed our own formulas for side-dressing and foliar application. These recipes have been created for our particular soils and environmental conditions, including high organic matter, loam soils under the influence of intense pollution, and a generally degraded ecosystem. Because of our growing situation, our recipes are relatively complex, and we frequently alter the ingredients based on our assessment of…

Homemade Organic Fertilizers

Build a Sunny Addition to Your Garden

YOU MAY ALREADY HAVE a fairly robust and critter-proof gate for your garden fence. That’s great for protecting the garden, but utility gates aren’t necessarily decorative. Happily, you can add an accent gate inside the garden that’s a little more attractive and unique. This sun-themed gate is designed with this purpose in mind. It won’t keep critters out of the garden, but it’ll be a fun way to dress up your plot’s interior. Although it looks complex, the sun gate isn’t difficult to construct. Some careful work and a few slightly advanced carpentry skills are all that’s required to build this for your own outdoor space. STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS 1. Mark the sun outline. The round sun in the center of the gate is made up of two arches screwed together. Each arch is…

Build a Sunny Addition to Your Garden

SUMMER SHOWERS BRING Maypop Flowers

WHEN I WAS GIVEN THE TINY, black seeds of a maypop a few years ago, I was warned: This plant will absolutely, without question, take over your garden. I heeded the warning to an extent, but I was sure I could manage my plants. After all, could this vine really be such a bully? And, in the ensuing years, has it actually taken over? Turns out, yes, it could; and, yes, it has. This fruit-bearing vine has colonized every square inch of my garden. Yet I’ve never once regretted growing the plant, and that’s for one very simple reason: Maypop vines produce the most beautiful flowers in the world. Maypop (Passiflora incarnata) — also known as passionflower or passion vine — belongs to a mostly tropical botanical group called Passifloraceae. The…

SUMMER SHOWERS BRING Maypop Flowers

The Growing Green Monster

SWEET, SOUR, FIERY, and bitter: Seeking to find balance among these flavors, Orathai Yord strives to maintain tradition when cooking her favorite Thai recipes. To succeed, she often must grow herbs and spices herself. Yord’s 15-by-25-foot growing space is packed with tiny Thai chiles, spiky clumps of lemongrass, and two types of bushy basils. She likes to mix one of the basil plants — which is technically a mint variety with a white downy stem called hoary basil (Ocimum canum Sims) — into a soup called kang leang. The other is holy basil (O. tenuiflorum). “I use holy basil for pad krapow, a popular dish in Thailand,” she says. “But in the U.S., it’s hard to grow or find. In restaurants, you’re most likely eating Thai basil.” If you’re facing east,…

The Growing Green Monster

Adaptive Gardens Access for All

YOU MAY HAVE ALREADY HEARD that hospitals and health care facilities around the world are becoming attuned to the way time spent outdoors can benefit their patients. Proximity to nature can promote elevated feelings of calm and reduce blood pressure, as well as stimulate beneficial brain activity. While healing gardens have gone a long way in relieving the stress brought on by exhausting clinical treatments, some gardeners have made it their goal to bring patients even closer to nature. They’re using adaptive gardening techniques to create spaces where patients not only walk through nature, but engage their senses by interacting with the plants. For a century, the Capper Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, has sought innovative ways to improve the lives of the more than 2,000 people with disabilities served annually. The…

Adaptive Gardens Access for All

Korean Natural Farming Basics

AS A SMALL-SCALE FARMER, I’m constantly looking for ways to fertilize my garden with on-farm inputs. This includes making my own compost from kitchen scraps, leaves, and chicken and rabbit manure. Despite my efforts, I still had to rely on some inputs from my local garden supply store, such as blood and kelp meal. It didn’t take me long to realize that this method was unsustainable for me. Ever since I entered the world of farming, I’ve gravitated toward the idea that a closed-loop system — or at least as much of a closed-loop system as possible — is the best option. That means not running to the store whenever I need to feed my plants healthy, organic nutrients. Over the course of a few months, I researched ways to feed my…

Korean Natural Farming Basics

ON-FARM FERTILIZERS

FERMENTED PLANT JUICE The simplest Korean Natural Farming fertilizer, fermented plant juice, is a liquid derived from a mixture of brown sugar and local plants. “Select a plant that’s vigorous and healthy on its own without inputs,” Englander says. “For example, use nettles, seaweed, or comfrey. You’re looking for something that has pretty thick and robust leaves.” Harvest plants early in the morning, when they have the highest growth potential due to the large amount of moisture content, enzymes, and nutrients. Cut the plants into small pieces, and then mix the plant material in a glass or ceramic jar with brown or cane sugar at a ratio of 1-to-1 by volume. Fill the jar two-thirds full, which allows space for fermentation to occur. Cover the jar, and let sit for one week. At the…

SWEET (and Simple) Potatoes

MORE TIMES THAN I’D LIKE to admit, a sweet potato has remained hidden in my vegetable cupboard long enough to begin sprouting. For years, I’d either cook it before it spoiled or I’d toss it into the compost pile. After I’d started a flock of chickens, they’d often be the recipients of the snack if it was mold free. That’s what happened until I figured out that I could place the forgotten fare in a free spot in the garden, under a pile of wood chips and some compost, and harvest a bounty only a few months later. Because the plants are so hardy, requiring little water or maintenance, this method is about as hands off as it gets in a garden. With my warm climate in southern Louisiana (Zone 9a),…

SWEET (and Simple) Potatoes

MOTHER EARTH Gardener GROWING ORGANICALLY

MOTHER EARTH NEWS ORGANIC COMPOST, 15-POUND BAG If you want to have rich, nutritious soil for plants, it’s crucial to use high-quality, organic compost! This compost is organically made in Tennessee. Your plants are going to love this organic compost, and you are going to enjoy a fruitful, prosperous garden! Please allow two weeks for delivery. Available for shipment to continental U.S. addresses only. #10148 $39.99 MEMBER PRICE: $35.99 15-PACK OF 9-INCH PLANT MARKERS - WHITE STONE Great for the eco-conscious home gardener, these 9-inch white stone-colored plant markers are made with 80 percent recycled plastic and 20 percent biomass from agriculture waste byproducts. Made to last in every kind of weather, these plant markers will be marking your garden plants for years to come! #9084 $19.95 MEMBER PRICE: $17.96 TOMATOES GARLIC BASIL Tomatoes, garlic, and basil…

MOTHER EARTH Gardener GROWING ORGANICALLY

TIMELESS TINTYPES

Though it’s more elusive to find today, the ‘Marshall’ strawberry was a popular cultivar in the early 20th century, thriving in the Pacific Northwest. Rawson’s Seeds featured this sweet, dark-red fruit in its 1895 catalog, recounting how this “very handsome” cultivar had originated in Marshfield, Massachusetts, “from a wild strawberry found in an old stone heap, where its enormous growth attracted the attention of its introducer.” The ‘Marshall’ strawberry, unfortunately, was easily susceptible to viruses, and faded out of popularity in the mid-20th century, but its legacy still lives on for many growers.…

TIMELESS TINTYPES

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