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Sat, 13 Apr 24 6:02 AM | 103 view(s)
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I posted a while back that I had about fifty peppers of 5 to 10 varieties. In fact, just 39 of 66 that I planted on March 20th germinated. One came up without any leaves... or a bug ate them, I don't know, but I'm counting it anyway. Maybe the 27 deadbeats will still show up, but I've given up and have put new pepper seeds in those pots. They'll probably have the same 59% viability as the first batch. Not too good, but I hope to wind up with around 55 peppers. Now we know why they always say to plant extra seeds and then thin them out if they come in too thick.

Today I identified the 21 tomato varieties that aren't my "standards" and created two pots of each variety. I put three seeds in each pot so that, hopefully, I'll need to thin them later. All I really want is to get one or two plants of each kind. That'll be enough to let me rejuvenate my seed stock. Tomato seeds are good for at least six years... when the professionals pack them. They probably don't last as long when I'm the one doing it.

The tomatoes I planted today follow. The number at the end is the year I harvested the seeds. Most are from '21 or '22. The one that says '24 is from a package I just bought the other day.


Heirloom Black Krim Tomato (’22)
Heirloom Beefsteak Tomato (’22)
Heirloom Yellow .75” Clumps Cherry Tom. (’22)
Heirloom Rutgers Tomato (’22)
Heirloom Gardeners Basics Large Cherry Tom. (’24)
Heirloom Red Cherry Large Cherry Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Azoychka Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Tigerella Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Roma Tomato (’22)
Heirloom Chocolate Stripes Tomato (’22)
Heirloom San Marzano Tomato (’22)
Heirloom Marglobe Improved Tomato (’22)
Heirloom Big Rainbow Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Marion Tomato (’21)
Burpee Honeycomb Hybrid Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Yellow Grape Cherry Tom. (’21)
Heirloom 1” Gold Clumps Cherry Tom. (’21)
Heirloom Cherokee Purple Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Rutgers Determinate Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Floradade Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Golden Jubilee Tomato (’21)
Heirloom Orange Happy Days Marigolds (’22)

If you're still with me, you might have noticed that the last item is Marigolds - a total of three six-packs of marigolds. My harvested marigold spores have truly awful viability, though. I tossed a hundred... maybe two hundred... over the 18 starter pots, then added some additional dirt and watered. Now I'll cross my fingers and hope to get ANY plants. They're two year old spores, after all.




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Gardening
By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE
Wed, 10 Apr 24 11:58 AM 		Msg. 52146 of 60008

A few years ago I posted on GARD that I wouldn't again plant tomato seeds before April 1st: I had been giving them too much time in pots before they could go in the ground, and the plants got leggy. Leggy is bad.

But now it's April 10th and I still haven't started the tomatoes. In fact, I haven't done ANYTHING garden-related except for planting hot peppers. They need more time than other plants do. They've now germinated in their little pots and should be ready for transplanting to the garden at about the same time as all the other, faster-growing seeds.

I've got to get busy. There's a lot to do. My garden has to be planted by mid-May. The short growing season in New Hampshire makes the timing of a garden very difficult: Plant too early and a freak snowstorm will kill everything. Plant too late and the season will end before anything can be harvested. Finding the sweet spot is the trick.

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