Sunday, March 21, 2010

Planting Tomato Varieties

I am late planting tomato seeds inside.  Last Friday, I made up another batch of starting mix (coir, Humisoil, sand) with a little SuperStart and added a bit of M3, as tomatoes are heavy feeders.  The 2 1/2" seed containers are a good size and I put one seed in each containers -- about 6 plants of each variety.

Tomatoes are easy to germinate and I always have too many plants for my greenhouses - so I sell, swap or give away the extra.  Here is what I planted this year.
Prudens Purple: our favorite - large, late, heavy cropping, extraordinary vivid taste, deep pink P
Cherokee Purple: great taste, green/purple, medium large F
Aunt Ruby's German Green: new this year P
Glacier: very hardy and early, medium size, OK taste F

Sun Gold: the standard gold cherry, heavy cropping, reliable, sweet F
Gold Nugget: determinate, sweet, gold bush cherry - great for the deck containers P
Black Cherry: new this year P
Martinos Roma: new this year P
Black Plumb: favorite plumb - dark, tasty, good for drying (from a friend)
Orange ?: a variety given by a friend

I also planted some peppers and an eggplant.  I do not do well with them but keep trying different varieties.
Fooled You: new this year P
Klari Baby Cheese: new this year F
Napoleon: new this year P
Swallow Eggplant: new this year F

Do you have some favorite varieties you would like to share?  Please write a comment.
F = Fedco Seeds  P = Pinetree Seeds

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