Mm my mortgage lifter - love that tomato - used to grow it up north but down here, it hasn't done well at all for me so I gave it up. I grow Thessaloniki and a NOID grape tomato and a NOID large cherry tomato that turns bright orange. Those two do really well. In fact I harvested the last their fruit last week before the cold snap.

i usually start my tomatoes, peppers and eggplants on 1/15 but I'm late this year.

I sowed seeds for tomatoes and bell peppers the day before yesterday and did eggplant today. Tomorrow I think I will get some okra sowed along with zucchini and I will be taking another stab at acorn squash this year. I don't have a lot of room and neighborhood rules say I can have have edibles mixed in with my landscape, but not your old-fashioned vegetable plot. So for me.it is largely things I can grow in containers and I am trying to find places where surrounding conditions matches the needs of the veggies, which is hard to do on a largely dry, sandhill.

As soon as I get my paycheck first of next week, I'm buying seed starter mix to start my seeds. I've started some of the larger ones already, but need a finer mix for the smaller ones. I usually put okra straight into the ground. It grows better for me that way. I'm going to try Acorn squash too, but I have my doubts about how good it will do here. I don't have but one spot that gets full sun for enough hours a day inside the courtyard, so it's all an experiment to see how it goes with the rest.

I sowed seeds in my raised beds about a week or so back: broccoli, spinach, mustards, collards, cauliflower, beets, turnips, kale, chard... It's probably nearing close to the end of the seed-sowing season for a lot of these things, but I'm also working on tilling a bed, getting it ready for some of the already-mention veggies, as well as corn, watermelon, and cantaloupe.

Michael, I always plant my squash in hills. My grandmother taught me how to do that. I just have the cheapo Dollar General seeds, but I hope they will grow.

I planted some Cayenne pepper and tomato seeds yesterday, and it looks like I'll
have to keep them in pots for awhile when they come up. Only planted 3
seeds of each tomato variety; Cherokee Purple, Mortgage Lifter and Roma. I already have cloned starts of Everglades, Early Girl and a NOID large red cherry. Hoping
I'll get one of each for me and one or two to trade.

I just don't have a
lot of room for tomatoes this year, so I'll probably have to do away with some. I won't be able to adhere to the 10 foot rule on separating tomatoes, so don't know what I'll end up with. I will try to keep the Cherokee Purple and Mortgage Lifter away from the others so they can come true, but might just have to stick the others wherever I have room.

Full sun is a problem, although there is more sun now that all the leaves have fallen from the Chiquapin oak that was shading the courtyard in the afternoon. That won't last, though, since it will start releafing in March.

With this cold weather, my tomato seedlings are indoors for now...

Silvia

Those look nice! Luckily, I have a bright, sunny window for mine to stay in until it warms up, which is good, since I have no room for a light stand. What varieties are you growing?

Silvia,

Those look way too clean and neat. Are you sure you're a gardener? (he said in a light-hearted, joking tone)

Thank you dirtygardener, every season I grow different varieties, some new to me and some that I like, most of them are large beefsteak type because I can slow dry them in the oven, put them in the freezer and use them when I don't have tomatoes, some of the varieties are Red Penna, Neves Azorean, Dester, Sojourner, Giallo, Chef's Choice, Amana, Brandywine Suduth, Big Beef, Ruby Gold, Marizol Bratka, DB Cooper, Thessaloniki, Red Yellow, Rose, my favorite last season Noire, a couple of cherries, Golden Rave, Sweet Treats and few others like Garden Gem and New Big Dwarf, Polbig, and some others that I probably forgot.

Thank you Michael, every day I keep an eye on the seedlings, no bugs or disease allowed.:)

Outside in the garden I am harvesting daily, greens, peas,onions, carrots, beets, my eggplant took a beating with the cold but I am still getting some.

When it gets warmer I will start zucchini and cucumbers...

Silvia

Wow. I've never even heard of any of those. LOL