Second Chance Gardening
Fall is the “Second Chance” for an abundant crop of cool season vegetables. We share some unique planting tips to make your garden a success!
Entries by Stephen Scott
Biting Insects Repellents You Can Grow
Biting insects are the bane of gardening – just when it’s perfect to enjoy the garden those annoying biting insects join the party. These 8 herbs will help!
Direct Sowing Your Garden Successfully
Direct sowing can be done almost any time of the year – spring, summer or fall.. Read how to avoid common problems and set yourself up for success!
Easy Seed Germination Testing at Home
Our easy and simple germination test shows whether your seeds are good or not with supplies in your kitchen. Stop guessing and know for sure!
Milk and Molasses – Magic for Your Garden
Do you know the magic of milk and molasses in improving your garden? Plain old milk is a miracle for plants, soil and compost. Molasses boosts the benefits!
Easy Herbed Mayonnaise in 30 Seconds
Real, traditional mayonnaise has only five simple ingredients but is rarely made fresh, which is truly a shame. Discover how to make fresh delicious mayonnaise in 30 seconds with our recipe, and don’t worry about running out of the store-bought stuff ever again!
Vine Peach – Ancient Melon of Many Uses
Vine Peach is a hardy, drought tolerant, prolific ancient baseball sized melon of many uses from shade & windbreak to secret cooking element & room perfume.
Easy Garden Ideas
A garden can be easy and simple, with food, flowers, butterflies or just a spot with beautiful colors and relaxing, invigorating scents to relax after work.
Heirloom Basil – So Much More Than Pesto
Basil is much more than an Italian herb for pasta sauce and pesto. From sacred uses to food, medicine and aroma, it’s easy to grow and highly beneficial.
How to Grow More from Your Same Garden Space
Growing more from the same garden space might seem impossible. We share a few proven and tested techniques perfect for today’s gardens, large or small.
Alpine Strawberries have a Sweet History
Alpine strawberries have captivated our taste buds for a very long time. They are tiny yet hugely flavorful ancestors of our common strawberry.
Papalo – Heat Loving Cilantro Alternative
Papalo is a fabulous, unknown, ancient Mexican herb you should be growing. A heat-loving cilantro alternative, its flavors are both bolder and more complex.
Achocha – the Unknown Cucumber Relative
Achocha is a delicious and unknown member of the cucumber family with almost complete immunity from the diseases and pests which attack other cucurbits.
Building a Recycled Growing Bed
A growing bed can be made from many materials, but when you factor in the ability to make a growing bed from recycled components, then the opportunities become almost limitless.
Seed Germination Observations
Seed germination is affected by several factors – moisture, temperature, light, soil and time. We look at a recent test we did and lessons learned.
Potting Soils – the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Potting soils come in all shapes and sizes, but do those potting soils really work as advertised and contain healthy, wholesome ingredients to help your precious seedlings get that critical head start they need?
Are Seed Starting Mixes Worth Your Money?
Seed starting mixes can be confusing – what’s good and what’s junk? Is the extra expense worth it, or is the cheapest mix just as good? Let’s take a look!
Chile de Agua – An Unknown Heirloom Chile from Oaxaca
Discover the Chile de Agua, a delicious but unknown heirloom chile from Oaxaca, Mexico, grown for over 300 years.
Spiced Cauliflower Soup
Spiced cauliflower soup is an easy and delicious dish – a warming winter’s dinner but is also a cool and creamy summer’s lunch entreé or appetizer.
Steamed Spaghetti Squash with Pasta Sauce
Spaghetti squash is often overlooked by the home gardener as too plain or common. This is unfortunate as it makes for very tasty, quick and easy dinners.
Growing Herbs Indoors
Growing herbs indoors is one of the easiest ways to capture the flavors of summertime any time of year, but especially during the middle of the winter.
Determinate and Indeterminate Tomatoes –What’s the Difference?
Are determinate tomatoes best for your garden, or would an indeterminate be better for you? How to tell, and what do the terms mean, exactly?
How to Use the Wishlist
The Wishlist is a great feature when browsing our online store, and we’ll show you exactly how to use it and get the most from it.
Heirloom Tomato Leaves – Potato Leaf vs Regular Leaf
Heirloom tomato leaves have two main different and distinct types of leaves – potato leaf and regular leaf. We’ll show you the differences!
Sicilian Eggplant and Tomato Sauce
This Sicilian eggplant and tomato sauce is wonderful and surprising with its richness and depth of flavors, both fresh and roasted. Easy and delicious!
September Garden Vegetables
We’ve taken some glamour shots of September garden vegetables and wanted to share them with you, along with tips on how we enjoy them in different dishes.
Easy Homemade Basil Pesto
Fresh, homemade basil pesto is one of the treasures of summer. Pesto is one that is very easy and quick to make, so come along and we’ll show you how!
Growing Quality Heirloom Chiles
Take a short trip with us to see what goes into growing quality heirloom chiles from a world-class breeder.
Lemon-Garlic Infused Olive Tapenade
We did this video in partnership with our local hospital about growing and cooking with herbs. Lemon-Garlic Infused Olive Tapenade makes use of them.
Succession Planting – Boosting Garden Production
Succession planting is basically one crop following another in the same space to maximize the amount of food produced. We’ll show you how to do it!
Young Green Beans with Dijon Vinaigrette
Young Green Beans with Dijon Vinaigrette is a quick and simply delicious way to make them into a very memorable side dish that will be talked about!
Lemony Green Beans
Lemony Green beans are a welcome addition to the dinner table in the spring when they first arrive. Taste our unique and delicious take on them!
Controlling Bindweed in the Garden
Field bindweed is one of the most invasive and destructive weeds in cropland and gardens. Read why it grows and how improving soil fertility controls it.
Stopping Bermuda Grass in the Garden
Bermuda grass: love it or hate it – most people fall into one of the two camps; there doesn’t seem to be much in-between.
Heirloom Corn Types & Planting Tips
Heirloom corn is becoming popular as people taste the depths of flavors they offer. There is much more than just the sweet, fresh eating varieties!
Honey Pickled Jalapeños with Garlic
Pickled jalapeños and garlic have been favorites of ours for a couple of decades. See our newest twist with honey on this classic recipe!
Heirloom Watermelons – Size vs Flavor
With watermelons, both size and flavor matter. Heirloom watermelons grown at home will give the absolute best flavor and taste, regardless of size.
From The Range To The Garden
A short look at the foundation of Terroir Seeds with an article we wrote for Range Magazine in 1996 after attending a Public Rangelands Grazing Conference.
Successful Aquaponics Seed Starting
Successful Aquaponics Seed Starting is fairly simple, but there are a few basic things to know before getting started. Here’s how to start successfully.
Critters In The Garden Questions
We share some of the best ways our customers have found of keeping critters out of the garden and your heard-earned veggies!
Controlling Fungus Gnats in Seedlings
Fungus gnats are more a nuisance than a real problem in seedlings, but we’ll show why they show up, how to monitor and control them.
Damping off – Causes and Control
Damping-off is a soil borne fungal disease that can attack almost all young vegetable seedlings. We show simple methods to control and treat damping off.
Overwintering Cucamelons
Cucamelons can be overwintered as a perennial if they produce tubers in their roots. This technique gives earlier and larger harvests the second year.
Improve Lettuce Seed Germination
Lettuce seed won’t sprout in too warm soil, so it’s ideal for early and late season planting. We’ll show you when and how to plant for the best results!
Acres USA Feature: Soil to Seed
The January 2015 Acres USA magazine features Terroir Seeds. This will give you great insight into what makes Terroir Seeds so unique in today’s seed world.
Future of Food: Dictatorship or Democracy?
Is the future of our food a democracy or dictatorship? How can we choose to make our food system a better place? We look at some possibilities.
Blue and Yellow Cornmeal Polenta
Polenta takes a bit of time, care, attention and love but the results are delicious. We show you how to make it with a lot less work but all the flavor.
Honey Lemon Ginger Turmeric Cold Killer
Honey and lemon juice combined with powerful ginger and turmeric makes a highly effective cold killer that’s easy to make.
Seed Quality from Two Perspectives
Seed quality is important to the home gardener, small scale grower and large farmer. Make better choices and buy wiser by understanding seed quality
Late Season Pest and Disease Prevention
Pest and disease prevention is a major topic for many gardeners and for good reason. We take a top down approach to manage for next season with easy tips.