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No Big Box tomatos this year
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 |
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