How does your garden grow?
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lakngulf
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Looking good! :thumbsup:
Cherokee Purple is now the new favorite of my new librarian friend. She grew some last summer for the first time and now can't stop talking about how much she likes them.
Be a while still to even start seeds here, end of March maybe.
Anyhow we are schedule a seed saver get together before then and make some plans.
We grew this hybrid tomato in one of tomato greenhouses at work last season and I found it one of the best tomatoes I have ever had.
Tomatoberry grows in clusters so easy to pick. Burpee and some others also have it.
Thanks for the link for tomatoberry. Looks good, but some expensive seed!
Cherokee Purple and Gary O'Sena were the favorite tomatoes of all my friends and family last year. They produce very uniform fruit with easily peeled skin and are great on sandwiches. This year I plan to go heavy with Cherokee Purple, Gary O'Sena, Fantastic and Better Boy.
aarolar
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I'm behind I haven't even ordered seeds yet...
CADplans
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A local greenhouse sells me beautiful started plants for just about what they are charging for seeds.,,, :confused2:
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Have never heard mention of the Gary OSena around here but we do all of the other ones you mentioned along with a most all the common home gardener type tomatoes people look for and maybe just 10 types of heirloom varieties for customers. I should make a list sometime of all the different ones we sell.
BTW I just used the Johnnys link for the picture reference and now looked at Burpee and they go for the same price and is only 10 seeds in pkt :shocked:
Finally used up my last batch of 2016 garden tomatoes from the freezer this week and made up 7 more quarts of sauce. Every year I say have to put up more and still it goes fast. Still have a few more jars of pickles and hot peppers left though. Figure about 90 days now until planting time again.
Glad you kicked this thread back up!
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Larro Darro
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Time to get 2017 off to a good start. These are Cherokee Purple I planted January 12. Seed is from 2015 batch that I saved.
Those are looking good. I broke down my inside light setup, so I haven't got started yet. We are talking about a greenhouse again. I need to get going on that.
2LaneCruzer
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Went to Tractor Supply a couple days ago and lo and behold! They had onion plants and tomato plants already. Yeah! Spring is here! I will be planting onions in the very near future; next week probably!
I just finished doing a little clean up in my greenhouse, trying to get ready for this coming summer. Around here, we start early stuff in mid to late February, so I'll start my early tomatoes in the house right around February 15th, then move them to the greenhouse when the temps start coming up.
Got all my seeds ready, starter trays ready, grow lights ready, just sitting here champing at the bit to get started!
Got all my seeds ready, starter trays ready, grow lights ready, just sitting here champing at the bit to get started!
TomSeller
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Onions are interesting, they will grow even in the refrigerator, they just grow a lot slower.
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Larro Darro
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I picked up a couple of Cherokee Purple tomato plants a week ago today. Got them in three gallons pots for now. They are doing pretty good. I saved some Pruden's Purple tomatoes {in the freezer} to use for seeds, but we went ahead and ordered some more seeds. Also got some Brocollini and Banana Cantaloupe seeds on the way. I took my light setup apart to save space, so need to set up something smaller when the seeds get here.