Almost Time to start

15 years ago

Today...I pulled out all my tomato seeds..put them envelopes and small bottles on the coffee table in alphabetical order..now to decide what I can plant this year. I am trying to do less rather than more. Last year was such a bust I don't have even one seed1! So my seeds are from 2005 to 2008..I am also trying to give my gardens a break from Tomato..

Aunt Ruby's Green

Black Plum (may not plant this year)

Cherokee Chocolate

Gallo

Great Divide (may not plant)

Heidi

Italian Pear

Kelloggs Breakfast

Marizol Purple

Opalka

Orange Russian

Pink Ping Pong

Red Brandywine

Sudduth's Brandywine

San Marzano

Maybe Nepal

and what I think is Dr. Carolyn's

also someone brought me some seeds

from a tomato they ate in California..

(so I will start it for them and maybe keep one)

Ooops forgot White Queen (although I usually only get one or two from a plant)..

Now that this is done, I hope to start the seeds next week..trying to put off the start date as I usually do it too early and end up with huge plants...

cheers to all with earth on their hands! Martha Zucchini

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tom8olvr
15 years ago
I transplanted some peppers I started a few weeks ago over the weekend and I'm starting to gear up to begin on Tomatoes and a few flowers. Getting psyched!!
Bets
15 years ago
Hi Martha!

I'm planning on starting my seeds next week too. I still have to replace some of the bulbs on my light stand, but I have enough for the shelves that I do my starting on and and where I put the baby maters after their first transplant. I need to test my heat mat and thermostat for it to make sure I can maintain optimal germination temperatures. I too have a lot of seeds from years past (2003 & 2004), and on some of them I need to regrow to replenish my seed stock. Here is my tenative list of the ones I need to grow for fresh seeds.

Aker's West Virginia
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Banana Legs
Baxter's Early Bush Cherry
Biely Naliv
Black Cherry
Black Early
Black Plum
Buisson
Bull's Heart
Bushy Charbaroysky
Costoluto Fiorentino
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Dad's Giant Polish
Dad's Giant Polish Orange
Dr. Lyle
Druzba
Elbe
Eva Purple Ball
Floragold Basket
German Red Strawberry
Golden Queen (USDA Strain)
Golden Tsaritsa
Hawaiian Pineapple
Hope Tarasenko
Hungarian Pink Heart
Kalinka
Lida Ukrainian
Lillian's Yellow Heirloom
Magnum
Matina
Neves Azorean Red
Omar's Lebanese
Red Fig
Richardson
Rutgers Select
Thessaloniki
Titan (Krasnador Titans)
Tropic
Warsowia

I've also managed to collect seeds of all the varieties I know of that were bred at ISU: Benewah, Bonner, Gem State, Latah, Owyhee, Payette, Sandpoint, and Shoshone. So I plan to grow all of them out.

Of course I also have a lot of seeds that are new to me that I want to try. With the ones that are listed above, I'm already at about 50 varieties, so I'll likely wind up with between 75-100 for my own garden.

Betsy
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bitsya
15 years ago
I'm in South GA & might have jumped the gun a little, but we'll see.
I started seeds on Jan 21st; have transplanted twice. Ended up with 247 tomato plants...15 different kinds. We will plant around 100 & the others were started for friends/relatives.

We've got 46 in the ground...will probably wait till April 4 or thereabouts to put in the rest. Those in the ground are doing quite well so far; they've been outside in their pots now for 6 or 8 weeks. (Brought them in a couple of times when low temps were forecast.)

So they should be good & hardened off & ready!

Still working on how to fight our # 1 enemy...nasty stinkbugs!

Good luck to all this growing season...
zucchini
Original Author
15 years ago
Nice to hear about other Tomato planters in other parts ...
My plant out date is June 1st...Last year it was warm enough
so I put them in in May..and kept a watch on the weather..
Betsy,,you have quite an impressive list. This year I really did cut back. I just can't even start the 80 I think I might have to this year,,,my usual space for starting has been usurped by my husbands computer and more. So I will start in a small room, on a drafting table...I always use shop lights, one warm one cold..and to germinate I wrap them in a nice warm electric blanket..I will give more than half to my daughter this year..meaning I will have to go to her place (a few hours away) and plant them, as she has a busy job right now..But i enjoy the planting and digging part...since I am retired it is a great thing to do as the season warms up. We still have snow on the ground...but lots of sun. martha/zucchini