General Schvantzkoph wrote:
After last year's late blight fiasco I've sworn off buying plants from
the Big Box stores, I'm doing everything from seed.

I started the germination process on Friday for the first four varieties,
they have all started to sprout, my plan is to give them a few more days
on wet plates and then move them to containers at the end of the week and
then start the next batch. I'll put them in the ground in the middle of
May.

I've doing the following varieties,

Cosmonaut Volkov (Ukranian)
Black Prince (Siberia)
Black Sea Man (Russian)
Legend (Univ of Oregon, supposedly late blight resistant, we'll see)
Italian Grape
Yellow Pear
Sun Gold Cherry

Has anyone tried any of these varieties, how did they work out for you?




Last year was just bad for tomatoes whether you bought plants or
sowed them yourself. I grew Porter and Legend last year, both from
seed. The Legends were eat-up with late blight even though they
were supposed to be resistant to it. The Porters faired much
better, but were so late I didn't get many fruit at all before the
first frost.

This week I'm gonna start the tomato seeds; Porter, Better Boy, and
Stupice. And some tomatillos to get an early start on them, instead
of relying on volunteers.

Bob