Our Homestead Garden

Gardening is another part of life at Pritchett's Small Pets. Some seasons are excellent and others remind us that weather, excessive rain, heat, insects, and other pests always get a vote.

We try to keep our gardening approach practical and as simple as possible. Seed saving is a particular interest, so open-pollinated and heirloom varieties are especially appealing when we can grow them successfully and preserve seed for another season.

What We Grow

Our grow list has included:

• Corn - Peaches & Cream Hybrid
• Cucumber - Straight 8 Heirloom
• Garden Bean - Contender Heirloom
• Gourd - Large Bottle
• Okra - Clemson Spineless
• Pumpkin - Big Max
• Pumpkin - Big Moon
• Pumpkin - Casper
• Pumpkin - Early Sweet Sugar Pie Heirloom
• Pumpkin - First Prize Hybrid
• Pumpkin - Jack Be Little Heirloom
• Pumpkin - Jack O' Lantern
• Pumpkin - Mini Harvest Blend
• Pumpkin - Small Sugar
• Pumpkin - Triple Treat
• Pea - Sugar Snap Heirloom
• Spinach - Bloomsdale Heirloom
• Squash - Yellow Straightneck Heirloom
• Sunflower - Mammoth
• Tomato - Beefsteak Heirloom
• Watermelon - Sugar Baby Bush

Learning From Every Season

Our garden changes from year to year based on space, weather, seed availability, and what we want to experiment with. Like our animal projects, gardening is a continuous process of observing, selecting, saving, improving, and trying again.