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Post by paquebot on Dec 20, 2014 17:48:33 GMT -5
I'm about three-quarters of the way for tomato selection. I'm figuring on starting at least 100 varieties just because I can. With over 500 new ones to choose from, it's not easy.
Main crop or similar:
Backa Beef Taninges Belarusian Heart Blue Pitts Chang Li Crimson Delight Dutchman Dana's Dusky Rose Early Ssubakus Aliana Edgmon Yellow Faelen's First Snow Gallo Plum Gospodar Idaho Hillbilly Ingegnoli Gigante Liscio Lucille Tillson Martiza 25 Master Carnosa Monomakh's Hat Olena Ukrainian Orlinyi Klyuv Pou Hang Record Rumunii Red Siberian Silesian Raspberry Solar Flare Sweet Ozark Orange Tijuana Negro Tsar's Favorite Ukrainian Heart
The "Alphabet", missing "U", mostly as fill-ins:
Atkinson Bola Maciso Calaplata Diener Early Glee Firesteel Giant Italian Pear Holy Land Ikarus Japanese Striped Kaki Coing Livingston's Gold Ball Marmande Precoce New Zealand Pear Oncle Remi Purple Plum Quarter Century Rosso Sicilian San Diego Tuckwood Victoria White Princess Xanthi Yablonka Rossii Zachary
Dwarfs
Amber Colored Balkonstar Balkon Star Bushy Charbarovsky Cherokee Tiger Citron Compact Demidov Dwarf Arctic Rose Dwarf Stone Dwarf Sweet Sue Malinovyi Tsvet Maskotka New Big Dwarf Orange Pixie Perth Pride Sleeping Lady Summertime Gold Summertime Green Yellow Canary Yellow Pygmy Yukon Quest
Cherry types:
Bicolor Cherry Camp Joy Chio Chio San Cooks Island Don Juan Gold Krone Handborp Green Purple Bumblebee Purple Dragon Helsing Junction Blues Vilma Zitronentomate
Seed increase:
Andy's Buckflats Wonder Epstein's Big Zac Hartung Heinz 1350 San Marzano Redorta
Next weekend, will meet with another SSE member to select more new varieties from her huge stock.
Martin
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 20, 2014 21:49:31 GMT -5
Ilex, I'll root through the fridge and find that package!
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Post by kazedwards on Dec 21, 2014 0:02:21 GMT -5
Get Stocky Red Roaster and see what you think. IMO, it is much better than King of the North. seems like I will be ordering it. I don't know from where yet but I have to try it now!
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Post by jondear on Dec 22, 2014 21:02:20 GMT -5
Although I've got time before planting, I've already spent ~ 90 bucks on seed And I have one more catalog order to do. Good thing I'm learning to breed and save my own. There will be some hybrids that I'll more than likely still order but I feel like in a year or two my seed bill will be a non issue.
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Post by steev on Dec 30, 2014 1:14:44 GMT -5
Perusing garden porn/catalogs is such an approach/avoidance conflict; I was just looking/leering at SESE's beets. I'm shocked, shocked! Their "Lutz" is so not, if that picture is what they're selling; that's a flattish, red-ribbed beet, not a top-shaped, green-ribbed beet. Were they selling dogs, would their "dogs" say "meow"?
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 30, 2014 14:28:35 GMT -5
If it walks like a duck...
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Post by DarJones on Dec 30, 2014 16:01:09 GMT -5
It might be Holly with a huge load of seed catalogs?
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Post by reed on Jan 8, 2015 10:22:04 GMT -5
I don't think I will have room for much more. I might do a few switches or try to fit Cowlick's Brandywine, Sunset's Red Horizon, or Abraham Lincoln. We will see. I would like to grow something other than tomatoes and peppers lol. You could throw in a few pole beans, just a dozen or so plants is enough to have fresh beans all season and wouldn't take much space.
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Post by reed on Jan 8, 2015 11:09:53 GMT -5
Although I've got time before planting, I've already spent ~ 90 bucks on seed And I have one more catalog order to do. Good thing I'm learning to breed and save my own. There will be some hybrids that I'll more than likely still order but I feel like in a year or two my seed bill will be a non issue. I've spent more than that, mostly on corn and not done yet. Need some more carrots, broccoli, cabbage or Brussels sprouts. And squash. Also want to put in lots more perennial things. I'm almost ready by saving my own and stop wasting seeds to mostly stop buying seeds. Goal is for that to happen this year. What I mean by wasting is I would get a pack of say, squash seed, plant some and just kinda lose track of the rest. Now when I get a pack of something I take out what I'm planning to plant repack, label and freeze the rest. Since I grow such small patches of most things 25 seeds of three or four kinds of squash along with my own saved ones should be all I ever need. Except for trading of course.
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Post by flowerweaver on Jan 8, 2015 11:29:39 GMT -5
I sowed a flat of TPS potatoes around New Year's in the greenhouse and about a third of them are up with true leaves forming. Yesterday I sowed a flat of eggplants and part of the peppers, today the rest of the peppers is on the agenda. I'm not seeing Wind Anemone leaves anywhere on the ground, and since they are the first to bloom in February I'm taking this to mean our winter will be longer. So I'm going to delay the sowing of the tomatoes, or at least the bulk of them. Using this time to organize seeds, seed trade, and replace the sagging chicken wire fencing around the fields with sturdier rabbit fencing.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 12, 2015 19:13:11 GMT -5
Ilex, here's that tomato package that you wanted me to post the photo of. I've been trying to get the lead out. Tomatoes, eggplant and peppers in. I'm just fiddle faddling with the TPS. Some haven't arrived yet, so I only planted "Pink Eye" an unfortunate name. I also put in way too many peppers: I couldn't decide between Tabago Seasoning and Chapeau de Frade. Dar said to go with the hat, and then I really began to be afraid, so I ended up planting: Aji Amarillo Bejing Pepper Flakes Tabago Seasoning Numex Big Jim Chapeau de Frade Joe's Yellow Lovely Little Hotties Jimmy Nardello Friarello Ancho Cal Wonder Yellow Cal Wonder & Quadrato Why is it when you're planting peppers, if you plant 2 of each, you get nothing. If you plant 6 of each, they all come up. Joe's Yellow Lovely Little Hotties....Joseph actually sent me some yellow Hungarians a few years ago. But the name was so dull, I ended up calling them Lovely Little Hotties. Because it was much more fun to send Leo out to the field while I was prepping dinner and say, "Honey can you go out and bring back some "Lovely Little Hotties?" Never had no trouble getting those peppers out of the field. But send him out for Joe's Yellow Hungarian, and I could be waiting for hours. I guess a man has to dream Ilex, let me know what the name of that pepper is, please. I've got it in the books as Del Lenco (I really need new glasses). And that leaves me with only 23 tomatoes that I have not tried yet. I didn't count the peppers or eggplants....I didn't have enough appendages....
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Post by steev on Jan 12, 2015 19:21:05 GMT -5
No, ma cher, man does not HAVE to dream, but life is so much more piquant if he can.
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Post by philagardener on Jan 12, 2015 21:16:07 GMT -5
Ilex, here's that tomato package that you wanted me to post the photo of. 12540dumont , I think I can see why you had issues putting photos in your posts. Google+ is a bit difficult that way. That address you put in is to a photo album (and it got copied and pasted in some weird way so it isn't behaving properly as a link). plus.google.com/photos/107334638896480841204/albums/6103604709660176289?banner=pwa is your Google+ album. You wanted to add the tomato package image into your post for ilex . If you right click on that picture (control click on a Mac) you can "Copy Image Location/URL" to your clipboard. This is the public link to that image: lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GnRJ8gTTIAM/VLRcJqHc0jI/AAAAAAAACtM/HE1hjVDeVTE/w1012-h1350/IMG_3476.JPG . If you then paste that address into a web browser , it loads the image file (without the album wrapper). This is the address you need to paste into the "Insert Image" popup when you write your post: (When I first inserted the image, it was quite large, so I just clicked on it once, selected a corner and dragged it smaller.) I hope that helps you insert your nice images into your posts!
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Post by jondear on Jan 12, 2015 22:34:21 GMT -5
Although I've got time before planting, I've already spent ~ 90 bucks on seed And I have one more catalog order to do. Good thing I'm learning to breed and save my own. There will be some hybrids that I'll more than likely still order but I feel like in a year or two my seed bill will be a non issue. I've spent more than that, mostly on corn and not done yet. Need some more carrots, broccoli, cabbage or Brussels sprouts. And squash. Also want to put in lots more perennial things. I'm almost ready by saving my own and stop wasting seeds to mostly stop buying seeds. Goal is for that to happen this year. What I mean by wasting is I would get a pack of say, squash seed, plant some and just kinda lose track of the rest. Now when I get a pack of something I take out what I'm planning to plant repack, label and freeze the rest. Since I grow such small patches of most things 25 seeds of three or four kinds of squash along with my own saved ones should be all I ever need. Except for trading of course. I hear ya about doing better about storing seed. My shoeboxes probably are a distant second to the freezer. I only have to eat a few more things and I might have room for seeds in mine. I still need leeks, Brussels sprouts, and seed potatoes to go along with the tps seedlings and 2nd year tubers I grew out last year.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 13, 2015 13:43:03 GMT -5
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