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Next Season's Tomato Planting Plans - 2016
Comments (100)Every year my tomatoes have a theme. One year it was oranges, last year it was whites and container varieties. This year it's blacks and a few others, including the return of a couple kinds. Black Pepper- new this year, a paste Black Prince- new this year, 5 oz fruits Black Krim- new this year- beefsteak Black from Tula- new this year, saucer Dwarf Wild Fred- a return from last year. One of the best tomatoes of last year, the others being White Queen and Snow White Cherry. A nice container plant, and a tasty black getting compared to the other blacks this year. Jaune Flamme- a return from 2014. Hands down the best tomato of the year, great fresh, canned, and dehydrated. 2-4 oz fruits, compact growth habit topping off around 5', suitable container plant. Pink Bumblebee cherry- new this year. I try to have an interesting bicolor every year, last year was Copper River. I plan on doing a cherry/tiny eats compare year in a couple years, and need to test out a couple of little ones every year too. Sweet Pea Currant- new this year. Just another little eats, but container growable. I also have clones going from some of the indoor/overwintered plants I took in because I had seed stock failures last year, or because I wanted to test out their limits, lol. So a couple of these might stick around through the summer if I need seed stock off of them, but it's more likely that either they will get sold off come spring. Totem- a super hearty container plant. Sets seed well indoors and out, takes cuttings/cloning very well, and overwinters in the kitchen window nicely. Germination rate is high, and early growth stays small. Silvery Fir Tree- not so suitable for indoor overwintering, it likes a bigger pot. And it gets leggy. Will grow out for seed stock if I can coax the clones along till spring. It's a pretty ornamental I want to revisit in the future, so I want to save seed for the sake of saving seed. Beaver Lodge Slicer- Healthy plants, decent in containers. Taking cloning pretty well. I have a half dozen seed stock tomatoes growing and ripening right now, may or may not keep cuttings. A right nice and early setting red, it grows well around here and sells well. Copper River- really a lovely plant with nice flesh, I want to save this seed for the sake of saving it more than anything else. I have one mother plant that is a long vine, very leggy in the kitchen window. It is finally producing a nice sucker I can cut for cloning, and two small flower clusters forming....See MoreI really need those 2016 catalogs!
Comments (21)Rather strangely, High Mowing sells their tomato seed for half of their varieties by seed count, and for the other half by weight. Yep, I always am careful to put 1/100 gm of seed in every hole! Bizarre. Their prices for 10 seeds are similar to their prices for 1/10 gm of seeds, but they never quite tell you that one is equivalent to the other. I have this picture of half of their sales force hunched over milligram balances....See More2016 Springbank - London ON - Plant Swap, Part 3
Comments (238)Did anyone bring rue, Ruta graveolens? That looks like another possibility. If you put on disposable gloves or something else to keep the sap off your hands, you can test it. Crush a few leaves, and if it is rue, you will notice a strong, unpleasant smell. The hand protection is necessary because the sap of rue leaves could cause a rash. Your plant also looks like Corydalis lutea, but for me the seedlings bloom the first year wherever they pop up....See More2016 Harvest Home
Comments (140)Wow..you already got your order? Yea Barb has great customer service. When I ordered Estonia Red from her a couple years ago, she still offered it by the bulb and she sent me an extra one in my order. Garlic is such an attractive plant that your wife should let you plant it anywhere and everywhere. Just don't plant it near your Horseradish gone wild! Speaking of HR, I noticed last night that something really likes horseradish leaves. Many of the leaves are just stems and veins. I didn't see the culprits when I looked it over so I'm thinking it may have been the Japanese Beetles that have come and gone. Hopefully it won't affect the root size too much. It usually starts to brown down about now anyway....See MoreSara-Ann Z6B OK
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