Why Picture Of Garden Grows Are Important

In this blog we will discuss why taking pictures are beneficial to the home gardener, seed trader and for the seed seller. Below are a few reasons why taking pictures of what you are growing in the garden is important.

Comparing Tomatoes To Previous Grows

Comparing previous grows to current year grows if growing the same variety. This can help everyone from the home gardener to the seeds seller and trader. We have a picture below labeled Not Gunmetal Grey 2021 and Gunmetal Grey 2020. We included these pictures below because I grew this back in 2020 from seeds we got directly from the breeder. Furthermore, we grew them out of saved seeds and had to regrow them in 2021 to restock the shop. Here what happened Gunmetal Grey was an unstable variety that me and other people bought and grew out the first time it was fine, the following year the Not Gunmetal Grey Popped up for me and others. We all bought our seeds directly from the breeder, but some that people bought got a different leaf version but still looked like what the breeder advertises. So for me as a seller, we had to remove it from the site until we see if we can grow the stable version from seeds left over that we still have from the breeder. This can still apply to the home gardener and seed trader also, so you can make sure it was true from what you bought or if you are trading to make sure you are trading the true variety. We started trading, we can not begin to tell you how many varieties we got in trade that we planted and were not what they were supposed to be.

Picture Of Weights and Production

There are a few reasons for taking pictures of weight and production in general. The most common is showing how big you grew something and the average weights that variety produces. An example of this is John Henry Tomato Below is as picture showing 2.7lbs, if you click on the red name it takes you to where we have it posted for sale showing the highest weight we got. We did take other weight pictures during the season, this how we know what the weight range is when selling. We have gotten higher weights on some varieties that we grew, which we got from other sites that had them advertised with lower weight ranges. Pictures of production can fall under weights to example is Sunrise Bumble Bee Tomato, how much it produced at one time and during the season. This can help the home gardener, breeder, seed trader and seed seller to keep track over the years. Also, to show what they grew to the friends in person or on social media and websites. Another picture of weights we take is when we pick. The reason I do this is to show how hard we work and how much we are picking to save seeds from to bring to the shop. The reason we save so many seeds is to try not to run out of any varsities on the website. This also documents for me as well a good year versus a bad year. We normally take pictures of the first week’s big picking, which this year was 400lbs. Then we take another picture a couple of weeks later at the height of the season which this year we picked 1,000lbs in 1 day but by the end of that week’s, that weeks total was 1500lbs we picked.

Pictures of The Market

The reasons we take a picture at the markets. The first reason is to show if someone is interested in selling, it shows what my table looked like with colors and varieties and how it was set up. Next is to show we have been selling at markets for years so when we post on a listing on my website that a fruit is a great market seller, this is why we kept notes of what did well at my market. The reason for this is to tell us what other customers really liked, not just what we liked, and we can put this in my listing to let you know what others liked as well.

Pictures Of  Your Growth and The Colors

The reasons for taking pictures of what you grow is good because of the colors. First for beans like Nonna (Grandmother) Agnes Blue Bean it shows how blue they are along with not all of them are all blue when dried some are brownish blue and brown if dried too long. This is where pictures are good when selling or trading to show if there is no picture you would not know. Another reason pictures are good is to show how gorgeous striped, bicolored tomatoes are on the outside and inside, like Taiga and Spud Viper Dwarf tomatoes. Also, if selling, trading or just showing what you grew like I have a Zinnia Mix of flowers we grew this year they just brightened up the garden due to all the different colors. Here is another great reason to take pictures. This happened to me this year I have gotten a few volunteer tomato plants come up from the year prior, so we let them grow out to see if we could figure out what they were from the previous season. We did figure out they were Stoney’s Neighbor’s Tomato from the unique color outside and on the inside of the fruit from the year’s previous pictures we saved.

Check out our Garden Gallery to see more pictures we have taken.