Hi, I'm looking for Ping Tung eggplant (the OP kind) and Indian Stripe tomato seeds. I'd also love to get some seeds for those round green Thai eggplants! You can also check out my trade list :) I have: (G) Gai lan - Chinese broccoli, Kailan, Kailaan (G) Swiss chard - red stemmed (C) Summer squash - Black Beauty Zucchini (C) Summer squash - Early Prolific Straightneck (T) Summer squash - Crook neck treated (C) Pepper - NuMex Big Jim (L) (C) Pepper - Corno di Toro Giallo (L) (C) Pepper - Hungarian hot wax (T) Pepper - Peter pepper (L) (T) Pepper - Alma paprika (L) (T) Pepper - Yellow bell (L) (T) Pepper - Orange cal wonder (L) (T) Okra - Red burgundy (L) (T) Pumpkin - Jack be little (T) Winter squash - Spaghetti (T) Beans - Kentucky Wonder White (Pole 191) (C) Tomato - Ananas Noire (L) (T) Tomato - Green zebra (G) Tomato - Kellogg's Breakfast RL (L) (T) Tomato - Yellow cherry (L) (T) Tomato - Rosalita pink grape (L) (C) Ground cherry (C) Corn - Kandy Korn (C) Corn - Sugar Pearl (C) Corn - Silver Queen treated (T) Catnip (T) Basil - Sweet (T) Cosmos - Sea shells (T) Cosmos - Sensation (L) (T) Cosmos - Sunset (T) Cosmos - pink, purple, pale pink (T) Coreopsis - mix (T) Dame's Rocket (T) Columbine mix

Sorry..... this is a really old post and I no longer have these seeds. Happy Holidays to you all. This post is closed.

I would love to build one of your Earth Tainers for my tomatoes. I have 7 raised beds in my veggie garden on 2.5 acres in the Santa Cruz Mts. I thought maybe if I put the 'ET's' on the deck next to the house we would get better crops of tomatoes from heat coming off the house. But even they won't help if we have another summer like last where it was constantly either fog, overcast or cloudy. Hardly ever saw the sun. Tomatoes did so much better when we lived in San Jose.

Chandra, I don't know that I'd trust that lady bug thing from the Farmer's Almanac. I've had lady bugs for 3 or 4 weeks now and had frost just a few days ago! Jhart, I agree with the others on Sprite, Lime Green Salad, Garden Peach and Paul Robeson. Of those 4, Paul Robeson has gottest the tallest--about 4 feet but it just doesn't like me and tends to die before producing ripe fruit. I don't know why. Maybe it is my soil. Baker Family Heirloom is very large and should grow in the ground. Razzleberry is a determinate that gets about 4 or 4.5' tall so it could be grown in a large-ish container. By large-ish I mean at least 7-10 gallons. Winsall did not get as large in my garden as I expected an Indeterminate to grow, but I grew it in a year when we had extreme drought like this year and the other year when I grew it we had excessively heavy rain and all my tomato plants sat in really wet soil for too long and stalled and stunted. I haven't grown it in a 'normal weather year' because I don't think we have those kinds of years here. For me, Indian Stripe grows like Cherokee Purple--taller than your average determinate but not a huge indeterminate. I usually grow it in the ground, but I've grown it in 20-gallon containers and it did just fine. I grew Lillian's Yellow in a year we had exceptional drought (the most severe form of drought) and it only got 3 or 4' tall, but I think it would have gotten taller in good moisture. Yellow Brandywine is a huge monster so I'd only put it in the ground. Rio Grande is a determinate but I would put it in the ground. It grows very vigorously (wide! thick! full!) and puts out a huge load of fruit. Because paste tomatoes like Rio Grande are prone to blossom end rot, and because moisture is hard to control in containers, and because uneven moisture contributes to blossom end rot, I'd put it in the ground. Hope that helps. Y'all. Unless you are going to water like a maniac or are in one of the far NE OK counties that has had plentiful rainfall, expect smaller than usual plants in this year's drought conditions. That will allow you to space them a bit closer than usual (as long as you're NOT using overhead watering) and to grow some Ind. in containers because in these conditions they won't get really huge. Please realize that if we are already in Extreme drought now (as any of you are), the next step "up" is to Exceptional Drought. I find it hard to water enough to keep a garden going in exceptional drought conditions. There's only so much water any of us can afford to pour onto the dry ground. In these conditions, water well early (in April and in May) in an effort to get your plants to grow well and set fruit. However, once fruit are sizing up nicely, you need to be very careful not to water excessively or your fruit will have bland flavor. It is a delicate balancing act. Dawn