As most of you know I am a recent graduate of the USU Master Gardener program. I learned a lot from the classes and made some great new friends. But if I gained nothing else from the program, the discovery of Sun Sugar Tomatoes would have made it all worth while!!! Sun Sugar Tomatoes are [...]
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Fresh Homemade Salsa
August 2nd, 2012 
Rick The tomatoes at Stoney Acres are slowly starting to produce more. And that means it’s time for Fresh Salsa. We love homemade fresh salsa! There is nothing better than its awesome tomato filled taste. Now you need to understand that the Stoney’s are not hot salsa lovers. In fact we don’t put any hot peppers [...]
Early Tomato Update
May 19th, 2012 Rick So, I’m often jealous of many of the other blogs I read from writers in warmer parts of the world. Many of my Zone 6 and warmer readers will giggle at how excited I am today. We finally reached our average last frost date, and the weather forecast looks fairly warm for the next week [...]
Planting out early tomatoes in Wall-of-waters
May 2nd, 2012 Rick The average last frost date around Stoney Acres is roughly May 15th. But some years we can have frost as late as June 1st. So an important part of season extension for us is the use of “wall-o-waters”. We always like to get a few tomato plants in early every year. Conditions in the summer [...]
Ripening Green Tomatoes
November 4th, 2011 Rick Every year before the first big freeze we pull out all our tomatoes and harvest all the partially ripened tomatoes. We also go through all the green tomatoes and pull out all the bigger ones. We bring in both types and let them slowly ripen. The ones that have already started ripening will be ripe [...]
