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No Big Box tomatos this year
On Apr 4, 3:39*pm, 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? Have grown a couple of your varieties here in Oregon - Legend was a good, healthy plant, but a poor producer for me. The tomatoes were on the small side and took forever to ripen. Sun Gold Cherry, on the other hand, was a real winner - very early to ripen and amazingly prolific. Lovely sweet little fruit - I would definitely plant it again. You've chosen some interesting varieties - hope you'll post some reviews this summer. Nancy T |
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