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I have Falstaff and Long Island Improved.

Does anyone have these to trade? I have over 50 heirloom tomato seeds (including OSU blue) and a fantastic array of caribbean hot and seasoning peppers. Probably over 100 total between the tomatoes and peppers, and loads of other veggie seeds. I love rare/heirloom/unique coloured items and am open to other trades. Not into flowers, etc. Veggies only please :)

I have two kinds of sprouts. Last night, some of the pots had more than 2 plants, so I pulled up the smaller ones. They are now at almost 3 inches tall today! Some pots had none showing yet, so I carefully lifted a few from the pots that had more than one, and replanted these in the other empty pots. I also do this with peppers and tomatoes. The two types I planted were Long Island improved and Bubbles. When these get transplanted into the garden, I will be putting down some heavy brown paper mulch to block weeds. The stuff is biodegradable and will remain until they are picked in fall once we get a couple of frosts. Usually I put down a woven black plastic fabric, which has lasted me 4 years now. The black plastic is one of the best weed blockers I have ever used and so I bought a 6 foot wide 300 foot long roll of it. I'm not planting many tomatoes or peppers this year, but instead, watermelons, and cantaloupe, started indoors, and corn directly planted at the end of May. My dill has also been showing up right now. Its from fallen seeds from last summer, and is everywhere along the edges of my garden, as well as between the concrete walk and patio, and in my saffron crocus patch. I also need to plant my fig tree outside as its starting to leaf out already, and has outgrown its very heavy 2 foot square pot. It was always stored in my garage for the winters, but this year it needs a better chance outside. Its a brown turkey variety, and has 5 new shoots emerging from the soil. The 'gus if it was planted last year, should be fine, but if you add any high nitrogen fertilizer it would be good to water it in. Corn gluten will convert to nitrogen but that takes a few months, so by then the 'gus has passed it harvesting time. I am closly watching the few purple spears I have, and they are still slow in growing. Usually when the 'gus is in its peak, I harvest every two days. I added some fish meal to my 'gus patch after putting down the corn gluten. You can't ever over apply the gluten. Here, we have had very little rain yet (odd for April). I planted some assorted onions and these were watered a few days ago. I also added liquid potash and phosphorous to their watering, and also added some fish meal around the soil as well. My garlic plants are getting huge right now with larger than half inch diameter stalks at a foot tall. They are the Music type hard neck and are huge cloves.