Welcome to the
Gardening Information Page of Craig LeHoullier,
This ever-growing web
site is intended to be a way for me to share, with other gardening enthusiasts,
information that I’ve been gathering over the years – primarily about Heirloom
tomatoes, but also unusual types of hot and sweet peppers and eggplant. Content will grow and evolve as I learn more,
grow more varieties, take more pictures, and carry out more research. I’ve added new sections on my seed starting
and seed saving methods – see below!
If you would like to
go to our spring seedling sales From The
Vine page, please click here.
If you would like to
go to Susan Angus-LeHoullier’s hand
made items at Seedlings Sewn, please click here
Tomato
Questions? Comments? Requests? Please email me at nctomatoman@gmail.com
Questions about Susan’s products – contact her at smaleh1@gmail.com
Updated on Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Our seedling sales have come and just about gone! See the From The
Vine page at the link above for information on our remaining plants.
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The major gardening focus for 2009 will be to progress the Dwarf
Tomato breeding project. We will have a
few seed companies evaluating the most promising selections this year, and hope
to see some of them in seed catalogs in 2011 (if not 2010, but it will be
tight!). If you want to see how this
project is progressing, we now have our own Dwarf Project website (thanks to
the efforts of my Australian project manager/partner
in this project, Patrina Nuske Small).
The link is here.
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I suppose we will soon be planning for Tomatopalooza VII !!! This year it is on Saturday, July 25, at Lake
Wheeler Park in Raleigh. For those who
have yet to attend, this is our annual Triangle area Tomato tasting – the focus
is on heirloom varieties, but we strive for as large a selection to taste as
possible! There is no attendance fee;
all we ask is that you bring a sampling of your tomato growing efforts. Of course, food is always welcome as
well. This is a great opportunity for
people to taste tomatoes of all shapes, sizes and colors! Watch the Tomatopalooza
web site, here – for the date, time and other
details.
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Finally, please note that much of the information below is “old” –
hasn’t been updated in some time due to essentially just being busy with the
matters of life! At some point I will
really update this site and make it much more user friendly and dynamic…..who
knows what that point will be, however!
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What
you will find in this web site:
Below are links to
information about our vegetable seedlings, pictures from our gardens over the
years, scans of old rare seed catalogs, my tomato seed collections and growing
logs, and articles from the heirloom tomato newsletter, Off The Vine….links to recommended seed companies, tomato
discussion boards, and a few great streaming radio links!
Please note
– I have disabled my guestbook because of the highly annoying, inconsiderate,
and ignorant spammers who fill it with their snake oil advertisement
links. Please just send me an email
(address above) if you have any comments!
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Annual
heirloom seedling sales……If you want information about our annual tomato, pepper and eggplant seedling
venture, click From The Vine. This
page will be updated frequently from now on, so check back often. See you at the Market in April!
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This
was my approach to seed starting for 2006 – the varieties and cell reference
numbers (I start seeds in 50 cell rigid plastic trays, up to 35 seeds per cell)
– it may change a bit, so check back now and then.
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Peppers
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Tomatoes
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pictures
of seedlings in 2005 (I will update with 2006 pics
over the next few weeks) – upstairs in front of window on grow mats – close
and distant,
grow light set-up in garage – distant,
close
up, closer
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Digital
Photographs (pretty well up to date – email me if you find any broken links)
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Craig’s
Tomatoes
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Craig’s
Sweet Peppers
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Craig’s
Hot Peppers
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Craig’s
Eggplant
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Jeff’s
Lettuce
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Jeff’s
Beans
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Jeff’s
Tomatoes
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Jeff’s
Peppers
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USDA
Seed Collection and Status – spreadsheet
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Tomato
Seed collection, by number - spreadsheet
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Saved
tomato seed collection, by number – spreadsheet
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Pepper
seed collection, by number – spreadsheet
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Saved
pepper seed collection, by number – spreadsheet
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Eggplant
seed collection by number – spreadsheet
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Saved
eggplant seed collection by number - spreadsheet
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Power
Point tomato family trees – (you need Power Point to view) - Link
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My
seasonal garden diaries/growing logs – (Please note that any
links in these tables do not work – so you cannot get to tomato, pepper,
eggplant pictures by clicking the links in most cases. Use the Pictures links above instead.
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2008
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2007
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2006
Some Miscellaneous Reference information:
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Scans
of letters from some seed sources (this is a work in progress) – Anna Russian,
Cherokee
Purple
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Information
on the original Alexander Livingston varieties is here
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An
essay on the various Brandywines is here,
and a table of occurrences of varieties in SSE yearbooks is here.
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Check this Out! There
is now a linked index for
– Off The Vine – next task is to get hold of
Carolyn’s articles, and we also plan to write updates to each of our
articles. Work
in progress
Some Good Links:
Tomato Discussion Group (note that
I’ve taken off the links to GardenWeb and Victory
chat areas – I don’t have time to spend at more than one site, and that site is
Tomatoville, linked below):
Recommended Seed Companies for
heirloom tomato seeds:
For a great selection of heirloom
tomato plant pictures – Reinhard Kraft’s web site
The Tomato web site of a good friend, Keith
Last but not least –
some great music links (streaming radio)!
WXPN in
Philadelphia – incredible mix – alternative, folk, rock – helps you keep
current with the music scene!
Radio Paradise – just a great web site
and streaming site; superb mix of music.
Miscellaneous Links for some of my other hobbies:
My favorite Jazz label – ECM records
My favorite dark chocolate – Scharffenberger
A great site for purchasing all sorts of dark
chocolates from all over the world - Chocosphere
Two great digital camera review sites – Digital Camera Review and Steve’s Digi-cams
(I take my recent pictures with a new Canon H3 1S; older pics
with a Nikon Coolpix 885.)
Great Coffee Review site- CoffeeReview
Wonderful Beer review site - RateBeer
Look up your home value – and those anywhere
in the country! Zillow
Answer some questions to find your ideal
retirement city - FindYourSpot
Great movie rental site – Netflix
Great information about movies – Internet Movie db
All about the possible rediscovery of the Ivory
Billed Woodpecker
Great weather site – Accuweather
A few additional recommendations we would
like to make – if you love flower gardens, be sure to go to the Daniel Stowe Garden in Belmont, NC
(Sue and I just returned – it was great!).
(My wife, an avid quilter, also works in a stop at her favorite fabric
store, Mary Jo’s, in Gastonia. Our favorite place to stay for the night is Robin’s Nest B&B in Mt. Holly. The Hostess, Robin Williams, is just
delightful!
Pet Pictures
Mocha – 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Buddy – 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Both – 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10
Zoe – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
