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Dried Delights
Place them in full sun and keep the soil well drained and moist. The Dried Flower packet contains seed of 20 different flowers that lend themselves to drying. Instructions for drying the flowers are found on these seed packets. When fresh flowers are scarce and expensive in the winter, arrangements of "everlastings" are a wonderful alternative for indoor floral decorations. Some of the flowers contained in the seed packet are Baby's Breath, Bells of Ireland, Chinese Lantern, Green Thumb, Love in a Mist, Money plant, Pampas Plume, and Strawflowers. Plant 1 to 2 weeks before the average last spring frost date. The Flowers, Dried Delights, will help you enjoy bouquets from your garden year-round when you grow these flowers. Dried flowers provide endless possibilities for flower arrangements, wreaths, swags and other craft ideas. This mix covers approximately 40 square feet. Sometimes called everlastings, these varieties are well-suited to drying and other methods of preservation. ... more info
Tomato - Amish Paste Amish Paste tomatoes are acorn shaped, deep red fruits with thick flesh. Lycopersicon lycopersicum (Hybrid) Prune the intermediate tomatoes in order to keep a single stem. Amish Paste is an intermediate tomato which means they continue to grow indefinitely until frost. If you are making a tomato sauce or canning tomatoes, do not use a regular tomato! Amish Paste is the tomato to use. The Tomato Pole Amish Paste, 'Lycopersicon lycopersicum', is one of those old, wonderfully flavored paste tomato varieties from years past. Amish Paste cooks down to a thick, creamy tomato sauce but also has a surprisingly sweet flavor that can be used for slicing also. Amish Paste has few seeds, solid flesh, and is large for a paste tomato. |
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