Question: My family enjoys growing a vegetable garden each year, especially squash. With further water restrictions likely, are there any benefits to growing heirloom varieties? Answer: Absolutely! It ...

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Read the seed packet or catalog and make sure what you buy is labeled open-pollinated or heirloom, not hybrid. My grandfather grew what we now call heirloom tomatoes: time-tested varieties that breed ...

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Apr 20, 2018 Apr 20, 2018 Updated Jan 15, 2022 0 In January of 2016, Carol Barany, our Master Gardener segment writer, wrote a story for Yakima Magazine about Phyllis Pugnetti. At the time, Phyllis ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners. This week I am discussing growing squash, in particular heirloom varieties. Squash has been grown here for thousands of years, so it has an old and unique ...