Thanks dawn as usual you provide ample amount of info. as i was reading i was thinking of questions and you had most of em answered time i was done reading.

I've read your past post on growing from seed and repotting and thats what i plan to do. Matter of fact bought shelveing yesterday to hang lights on.

Going to print this off and start searching for seed.

Thanks

I end up using whatever kind of tomatoes for my salsa. I don't can it though. After I mix everything up and there is a lot of juice, I just have a V-8.

OSGW,

You're welcome.

If you wanna talk tomatoes, I'm always available and could talk tomatoes forever. : ) Of course, if you've read the posts on this forum for more than a week, you already know that.

And, I should mention that there are many marvelous heirloom paste and plum tomatoes available from Sandhill Preservation Center that I haven't tried yet. There's so many tomatoes......and so little time.

I still hope others will add their favorites.

And I'm still working on my list of tomato varieties to grow for 2009.....just like Santa, "making a list and checking it twice".

And I would like to add Mariseeds (www.mariseeds.com) as another potential source, and Totally Tomatoes (www.totallytomatoes.com) too. The only thing with Mariseeds is that Marianna loves every variety she sells and her descriptions reflect that and sort of "gush" about the qualities of each one. And, Totally Tomatoes is NOT totally tomatoes although it was once upon a time, but it does have a nice selection of tomatoes. Some of the smaller seed companies, like Marianna's and Sandhill probably won't have their websites updated for 2009 until after Christmas though.

Dawn

Dawn i did have another question which may need to be in another thread i'll let u decide.

I read the recent thread on tomato starting from seed and the repotting at different stages and deeper. You had said other plants benifit from this method as well. I also took from it that peppers are not one of those plants.

So what are a few othe examples. I ask because last year i started seed in flats, bought plants and direct sowed. It seemed to me i got better healther plants from ones i started in flats myself. So i'm interested in doing more of that this year with appropriate plants.

I also have the planting date lists you provided printed off and got along good with those dates. Kind of like you i'm close to texas.

Roma does great for me. Tons of tomatoes and very little work. Makes great salsa.

OSGW,

Other plants benefit from being repotted, but not necessarily from being planted deeper when repotted. It depends on the plant.

Anything in the squash family can be planted more deeply because squash plants tend to form more roots long the stems/runners. Most plants don't, though, so I just replant them into deeper pots (usually plastic or paper cups), but don't plant the actual plant more deeply in the soil itself. The deeper the soil, the more root system they have before I transplant them into the ground outside.

If you have a list of what you're going to start from seed, post it if you want to and we can talk about starting those things from seed and whether they like to be repotted or not and whether it helps to plant them more deeply, or not.

Dawn