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All The Year Round, Lettuce Seeds - Urban Farmer Seeds

All The Year Round Lettuce is a medium-sized green headed lettuce that is just like its name, good for all the year round!

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Bloomsdale, Spinach Seeds - Urban Farmer Seeds

The Bloomsdale spinach is such an attractive, tasty, and a popular garden standard spinach that produces large quantities of delicious leaves.

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Little Gem, Lettuce Seeds - Urban Farmer Seeds

The Little Gem Lettuce is an old time tender green favorite that can be served whole or as a miniature green romaine, its truly a gem!

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“Before” photo. Garden, Day 1. 

It’s early May, and the seedlings are still inside nestled between the window and a grow light.

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View from the bathroom window.

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The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni

Gardening is my passion, and growing Food Forests is my specialty. I go beyond organic gardening and work with nature rather then against it. Gardening doesn...

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SEEDS

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Growing Cucumbers. 

(this guy and his dog are making fantastic diy garden videos!!)

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Patio Choice Yellow Hybrid Tomato Seeds

Award-winning yellow cherry tomato with a space-saving dwarf habit. More than 100 1-inch fruits on this determinate container type, which is great for baskets, planters, and window boxes. Order seeds today at Park Seed.

(I did not buy from ParkSeed, but rather bought a plant from someone on etsy. Link not available anymore.)

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Tomato 'Buffalo Steak'

75-80 days. Big beefsteak has solid, meaty, bright red flesh with sweet flavor. Early and abundantly productive with great disease resistance. Indeterminate (5-6 ft tall) plants yield lots of 6 ½ ounce fruit late into the season. Just right for slicing off thick slabs to top your favorite burger. F1

Bought this Buffalo Steak as a plant start shipped through the mail. And I was so impressed! 

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Amazon.com : Seeds of Change S10772 Certified Organic Roma Paste Tomato : Garden & Outdoor

Roma tomato seedlings took a few days longer to germinate than expected, yet they all germinated eventually.  (May 2020)

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Tiny Tim dwarf tomato 40+ fresh seeds for the 2020 season

Tiny Tim tomato (lycopersicum esculentum) This heirloom dwarf cherry tomato was specifically bred for containers by the University of New Hampshire and was introduced in 1945. Tiny Tims parents are Red Currant and Window Box. The dwarf determinate plant grows 8-14 tall. The only time I ever seen

I planted 6 of these tiny tims. 2 weeks later, 1 sprouted and another halfway started to sprout. Still waiting, still optimistic.

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The Sub Arctic Plenty Tomato is the world's fastest growing heirloom tomato, in just 42 days from transplant you will have fresh vine ripe tomatoes!

Bush variety that does not need staking.

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Golden Detroit, Beets - Urban Farmer Seeds

The colorful Golden Detroit beet has won over gardeners with it's sweet, but more mild flavor and is the ultimate savory golden beet with delicious greens!

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These orange flower seeds will produce a beautiful display of wildflowers that are only in the shades of orange! Wildflower seeds are so rewarding to grow.

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California bluebell is an annual wildflower that grows easily from seeds. This wild flower seed contains nearly 1 million seeds per pound.

Growing bluebells in small pots, and they germinated in less than a week.

These are supposed to open and close day/night.

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This Gazania seed mix produces very low-growing Treasure Flowers yet still full of big blooms. This ground cover seed grows quickly and fills in an area with lots of colorful blooms.

These gazania seeds germinated OVERNIGHT! WHA?! :D

I can not wait to watch the flowers open and close!