I'm always interested to know what others are growing.

For me this year--
Tomatoes--

German: After trying about 200 varieties, I've settled on this
occasionally oxheart shaped red as the best of the lot, which I grown
from saved seed. Wispy foliage, not very vigorous, moderate yields,
fruit size variable; but complex, dense, sweet "classic" tomato taste.
I take kosher salt to the garden, tear a fruit in half, and munch
'till I'm a sticky mess.

Reif Red: Very close to German, sometimes better. More vigorous,
higher yields, beefsteak type fruits.

Pineapple: Almost sickeningly sweet bicolor. My wife's favorite.
Fantastic with oil/vinegar and fresh basil on good toast.
Very sturdy, disease resistant--still standing last year when most
other plants were affected by wilt. Moderately high yields.
Really a great tomato.

Fantastic: The best hybrid I've tried. Way superior to the usual
suspects like the "Boy" and "girl" series.

San Marzano: First time growing this year.

Not growing Brandywine for this time this year. I've tried all the
strains, and though BW is one of the best, I think it's a bit
overrated. Can verge on being too tangy/peppery. German and Reif Red
are superior, imo.

I've never tried Park's Whopper, Mortgage lifter, and some of the
other classics. I think the darker tomatoes like Pruden's purple and
Black Krim are mediocre. Too delicate and soft. Completely subjective,
of course.
-----------------------------------------------------

Other veggies--
Hale's best cantaloupe. First time for this variety. I haven't grown
melons in some years. Previously grew Ambrosia which is so sweet it
tastes like it's been injected with sugar.

Pumpkins, Zucchini, Basil, other herbs.

Pole and bush beans. Cascade Giant, Fortex, Blue Lake.

I might do corn this year. Kandy Korn has been the standard, but I
might try Silver Queen this year.

DaveH

Tomatoes: 90 plants 39 varieties

Onions (walking, egyptian, bunching, "normal")

Jerusalem Artichokes: Clearwater, Jacks Copper Clad

Melons: Horned, Charleston, baby sweet pea
Cantaloupe - Grandpa's 26er
Victorian Pocket Melon

Purple Ecuadorian Peanuts

Carrots (6 varieties)

Lettuce : Summer Mix

Beets: Panozza, Chioggia, Albino, Burpees Golden, and Detroit Red

Radish: Purple Plums, Dix's, Podding from Pine Tree

Swiss Chard: 5 color sillverbeet, Bright Lights

Millet: Pearl, Finger, Foxtail

Quinoa

Yacon

Beans: Pole - Vingas
Bush - Green, Royalty, French, Canadian Wonder, Green Flageolet,

Black/white soybeans

Squash: Golden Scallop, Sunburst Scallop, Woodsbush, 8 ball, yellow

straightneck, Papaya Pear, Canoe Creek Colossal

Corn: Strawberry Popcorn, Baby Corn, Stoles Evergreen, Dwarf Blue Jade,
Ruby Queen, Pioneer, Polar Vee, Green Dent, Blue Dent

Cucumbers: true lemon, Cool breeze, sour gerkins, bianco Lungo

White and black sesame

Buffalo Gourds, Corsican Gourds

2 beds of strawberries (a bed is 5' by 30')

2 beds of asparagus (purple and green)

Sweet potatoes (my 3 yo saved slips from somewhere)

Pumpkins (ditto)

Oka Oxalis, Celery, various cabbage, cauliflower, and other brussicas

2 beds of fingerling potatoes (all blue, white, rosa and etc)

a very small orchard, grapes, berry canes and hops.

All to change with notice.

Thanks for asking!
Mutti

Ok, some beefsteak and Matt's wild cherry. Green beans, cukes, english,
red peppers, sugar pod peas, squash.

"DaveH" wrote in message
...
I'm always interested to know what others are growing.

For me this year--
Tomatoes--

German: After trying about 200 varieties, I've settled on this
occasionally oxheart shaped red as the best of the lot, which I grown
from saved seed. Wispy foliage, not very vigorous, moderate yields,
fruit size variable; but complex, dense, sweet "classic" tomato taste.
I take kosher salt to the garden, tear a fruit in half, and munch
'till I'm a sticky mess.

Reif Red: Very close to German, sometimes better. More vigorous,
higher yields, beefsteak type fruits.

Pineapple: Almost sickeningly sweet bicolor. My wife's favorite.
Fantastic with oil/vinegar and fresh basil on good toast.
Very sturdy, disease resistant--still standing last year when most
other plants were affected by wilt. Moderately high yields.
Really a great tomato.

Fantastic: The best hybrid I've tried. Way superior to the usual
suspects like the "Boy" and "girl" series.

San Marzano: First time growing this year.

Not growing Brandywine for this time this year. I've tried all the
strains, and though BW is one of the best, I think it's a bit
overrated. Can verge on being too tangy/peppery. German and Reif Red
are superior, imo.

I've never tried Park's Whopper, Mortgage lifter, and some of the
other classics. I think the darker tomatoes like Pruden's purple and
Black Krim are mediocre. Too delicate and soft. Completely subjective,
of course.
-----------------------------------------------------

Other veggies--
Hale's best cantaloupe. First time for this variety. I haven't grown
melons in some years. Previously grew Ambrosia which is so sweet it
tastes like it's been injected with sugar.

Pumpkins, Zucchini, Basil, other herbs.

Pole and bush beans. Cascade Giant, Fortex, Blue Lake.

I might do corn this year. Kandy Korn has been the standard, but I
might try Silver Queen this year.

DaveH

Tomatoes: 90 plants 39 varieties

Onions (walking, egyptian, bunching, "normal")

Jerusalem Artichokes: Clearwater, Jacks Copper Clad

Melons: Horned, Charleston, baby sweet pea
Cantaloupe - Grandpa's 26er
snip
Wow--an impressive batch of veggies. What do you with all those
tomatoes?

I have over 50 tomato plants (cherry, plum beefsteak, etc.), eggplants,
cucumber, bush and pole beans, Italian frying peppers, sweet peppers serrano
chiles, summer squash, zucchini, buttercup squash, sweet potatoes, lettuce,
onions, radishes, and herbs.
I also had a variety of fruit trees, berries, asparagus, etc.

June

DaveH wrote in message . ..
I'm always interested to know what others are growing.
Hm, for us, we couldn't get organized enough to get seed so we had to
settle with store brands (sigh)
Tomatoes . . .

Bonnie--well Bonnie says it's their best tomato

Supersonic--Apparently my Dad grew this once, so when he saw it he had
to buy it.

Pink Beefsteak--until this year, I had had no idea tomatoes came in
more than one color than red. This was the only different-color tomato
at the store. It had to come home.

Husky Cherry Red--Cherry tomato. 'Nuff said.


Carrots

Long Orange--Nothing exciting, but my friend has horses. Horses and
carrots go well together. Well. . . . At least, horses like carrots.
Carrots seem to be silent on whether they like horses.

Bush beans--limas and green beans.

suger baby watermelons and suger pumpkins. Pumpkin pie, can't wait.


I might do corn this year. Kandy Korn has been the standard, but I
might try Silver Queen this year.


We haven't tried either of those yet but one of our favorite corns
(that you can find in stores) has been "peaches n' creme" which has
both white and yellow kernels. The name we found it under in Southren
States is "Bilicious" Although online there are even more varients.

And I think that's it, although I'm eyeing a lot more lawn for next
year.

Most of these are still in the basement waiting to be set out this weekend:

Tomatoes: Stupice (seeds saved from last year), and Super Marmande.
One of the Stupice plants has normal leaves instead of potato leaves, so
it must have crossed with the Better Boy that was nearby.

Peppers: Aji Limon Peru, Longhorn, Dundicutt, Thai. And one Fatalii
that *just* came up from seeds I planted in March. The dundicutt and
thai pepper seeds were harvested from peppers bought at ethnic markets.

Tomatillos

Beans: Cranberry (for snaps)

Tyfon (a.k.a. "Holland greens")

Cucumbers: Diva and a dwarf pickle variety I can't remember

Rattail Radish

Squash: haven't picked a variety yet. Maybe tatume.

Onions: Red Burgermaster (Should have been planted 6 weeks ago, but
I'll plant them now anyway and use like scallions.)

Basil, cutting celery, and other stuff if I have room.

Best regards,
Bob

DaveH wrote in message . ..
I'm always interested to know what others are growing.

For me this year--
Tomatoes--

German: After trying about 200 varieties, I've settled on this
occasionally oxheart shaped red as the best of the lot, which I grown
from saved seed. Wispy foliage, not very vigorous, moderate yields,
fruit size variable; but complex, dense, sweet "classic" tomato taste.
I take kosher salt to the garden, tear a fruit in half, and munch
'till I'm a sticky mess.

Reif Red: Very close to German, sometimes better. More vigorous,
higher yields, beefsteak type fruits.

Pineapple: Almost sickeningly sweet bicolor. My wife's favorite.
Fantastic with oil/vinegar and fresh basil on good toast.
Very sturdy, disease resistant--still standing last year when most
other plants were affected by wilt. Moderately high yields.
Really a great tomato.

Fantastic: The best hybrid I've tried. Way superior to the usual
suspects like the "Boy" and "girl" series.

San Marzano: First time growing this year.

Not growing Brandywine for this time this year. I've tried all the
strains, and though BW is one of the best, I think it's a bit
overrated. Can verge on being too tangy/peppery. German and Reif Red
are superior, imo.

I've never tried Park's Whopper, Mortgage lifter, and some of the
other classics. I think the darker tomatoes like Pruden's purple and
Black Krim are mediocre. Too delicate and soft. Completely subjective,
of course.
-----------------------------------------------------

Other veggies--
Hale's best cantaloupe. First time for this variety. I haven't grown
melons in some years. Previously grew Ambrosia which is so sweet it
tastes like it's been injected with sugar.

Pumpkins, Zucchini, Basil, other herbs.

Pole and bush beans. Cascade Giant, Fortex, Blue Lake.

I might do corn this year. Kandy Korn has been the standard, but I
might try Silver Queen this year.

DaveH

Maters, sweet taters, yeller squash, okra, purple hull peas. Got a
right good stand comin' 'long too. :)

On Wed, 26 May 2004 14:47:21 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

Most of these are still in the basement waiting to be set out this weekend:

Tomatoes: Stupice (seeds saved from last year), and Super Marmande.
One of the Stupice plants has normal leaves instead of potato leaves, so
it must have crossed with the Better Boy that was nearby.
It will be interesting to see how that accidental hybrid turns out.
Stupice is a great early tomato.

Peppers: Aji Limon Peru, Longhorn, Dundicutt, Thai. And one Fatalii
that *just* came up from seeds I planted in March. The dundicutt and
thai pepper seeds were harvested from peppers bought at ethnic markets.

Tomatillos

Beans: Cranberry (for snaps)

Tyfon (a.k.a. "Holland greens")

Cucumbers: Diva and a dwarf pickle variety I can't remember

Rattail Radish

Squash: haven't picked a variety yet. Maybe tatume.

Onions: Red Burgermaster (Should have been planted 6 weeks ago, but
I'll plant them now anyway and use like scallions.)

Basil, cutting celery, and other stuff if I have room.

Best regards,
Bob

On 26 May 2004 12:31:02 -0700, (Liashi) wrote:

DaveH wrote in message . ..
I'm always interested to know what others are growing.
Hm, for us, we couldn't get organized enough to get seed so we had to
settle with store brands (sigh)
Tomatoes . . .

Bonnie--well Bonnie says it's their best tomato

Supersonic--Apparently my Dad grew this once, so when he saw it he had
to buy it.

Pink Beefsteak--until this year, I had had no idea tomatoes came in
more than one color than red. This was the only different-color tomato
at the store. It had to come home.
I'm sure you'll get some good eatin' out of these old standards.

Husky Cherry Red--Cherry tomato. 'Nuff said.
I've tried the yellow version of the Husky series and it was very
good--incredibly stout and vigorous. The only yellow I've really
liked.
DaveH

In article , DaveH wrote:
I'm always interested to know what others are growing.

Weeds

Bermuda grass from horse manure took over the old garden and no one
got around to digging it out or moving the fence and digging a new
spot that would involve less exercise (we have to fence against the
Starving Attack Rabbits, and the sand packs hard enough that it
really has to be turned before roots can penetrate). And we had summer
in February and winter ever since. So I think this year it's limited
to the two tomato plants in the back garden.. thought I'd try 'em
there cuz nothing else will grow there (too hot) and it's safe from
rabbits.

Tho I suppose I could still start some zucchini, they grow fast enough
to have a chance of producing by midsummer. (Assuming summer ever
arrives??)

~REZ~

On Wed, 26 May 2004 23:58:28 GMT, (Rez)
wrote:

In article , DaveH wrote:
I'm always interested to know what others are growing.

Weeds

Bermuda grass from horse manure took over the old garden and no one
got around to digging it out or moving the fence and digging a new
spot that would involve less exercise (we have to fence against the
Starving Attack Rabbits, and the sand packs hard enough that it
really has to be turned before roots can penetrate). And we had summer
in February and winter ever since. So I think this year it's limited
to the two tomato plants in the back garden.. thought I'd try 'em
there cuz nothing else will grow there (too hot) and it's safe from
rabbits.

Tho I suppose I could still start some zucchini, they grow fast enough
to have a chance of producing by midsummer. (Assuming summer ever
arrives??)

~REZ~

Sounds like here! (I can't remember who is in Idaho,) but yeah it was
warm too warm Feb, March, and part of April, then it cooled off to
"normal" temps.

I'm mostly growing weeds too. Stuff in the barrels was doing pretty
well, flowers came up out there and in the strawberry barrels, and
now.. I'm growing ELM TREES!! There was about an inch of seeds stacked
up around the place, they were getting tracked in and if someone
spills water on the carpet somewhere, and light accidentally reaches
them I'd not doubt if they'd start growing in here too! Wouldn't be
surprised, bind weed has found its way into the house more than once
where ghostly pale yellow green vines that blended in with the cabinet
color so didn't notice them until they were half way up the front
headed for the window in the kitchen, and in the laundry room it came
in the dryer vent hole and grew around the power line along the floor
to the dryer, and up the fishing pole and was headed for the string
that you pull to turn the light on! Guess it knew what to do!

But, I have solid elm tree seedlings in all the half whiskey barrel
planters, and they're in the walkways, anywhere there was dirt to grow
in because it started raining and it's rained just enough to keep the
soil damp enough for them to sprout. *sigh* I hate them sooooo! I
also have evil nasty asters all through the lawn in the back. I don't
know how it got there, as I actually managed to pay someone to keep
everything mowed back there. Grape vines are too close to be spraying
around them. Should have just reseeded lawn .. had I known it was
going to rain so much.. it'd eventually choke them out! Well I can
dream can't I?!

I hope to get a few tomato plants, a few buttercup squash vines since
the stores don't seem to carry them much these days, and when they do,
they want meat prices for them, and some peppers, zucchini, maybe some
yellow crooknecks, lettuces, and whatever else I can get someone to
plant, since I can't do so. Need to use all weed and water saving
methods possible. Newspaper and mulch I guess.

Janice

"DaveH" wrote

I'm always interested to know what others are growing.

The lemongrass I bought on May 2nd rooted quickly in water and was
*delighted* to be put into a pot of dirt a week ago. All 3 stalks are
growing new leaves like crazy.

A gift of two "generic" tomato plants seem happy and have flowers, A
California Wonder pepper has some little teeny peppers started. Must
watch for sun-scald. After having 1 old packet of dill seed, and some
equally old seed I'd saved fail to germinate, I invested 10 cents in a
new packet, and sprinkled dill everywhere. It's all coming up. Parsely
is in its 2nd year and 3 flower stems in bud will soon give me plenty
of new seeds. The little rosemary appears to be becoming bushier and
looks well. I was able to separate 4 stems of basil (K-Mart
over-seeding in a single pot) into 3 plants. One is quite handsome and
vigorous; 2 are looking a tad yellow. Ohmigod -- I forgot to water the
chives! Fortunately, we've just had a series of every-other-day
t'storms, so they should be OK. Oregano is flourishing. And
horseradish, of course. Yes, it's in a pot. My taro/Elephant Ear has
produced one perfect leaf on an 8" stem.

Two of the Kaffir Lime seeds I tried to start indoors in the dead of a
freezing winter survived and have put out one tiny leaf each. I *must*
saw off 3-4' of camellia so they get more light. All the Thai basil
seeds I planted germinated. Am waiting for true leaves before I
transplant.

So far, no sign of bugs except one missing basil leaf.

The weather has been ideal for plants, 'though very uncomfortable for
humans. 15 degrees above "normal" for nearly a month now, owing to the
Bermuda High which set up early this year. There was a dry (no rain;
plenty of humidity) 2-wk period, but we've had some good t'storms this
past week. Side effect has been power outages -- I'm getting tired of
setting clocks and the phone answering msg every other morning.

"DaveH" wrote in message
.. .
I'm always interested to know what others are growing.

Paste tomatoes (caged)
Health Kick
Classica
Tuscany

Slicing and cherry tomatoes (staked)
Odoriko
Ruby
SunSugar
First Prize
4th of July
Gregori's Altai
Valencia
Carmello

Peppers
Super Shephard
Early Sunsation
Blushing Beauty
Choco
Vidi
Ariane
Golden Bell
Aji Dulci

Eggplants
Neon
Vittoria
Listada de Gandia

Sweet corn
Speedy sweet
Temptation
Sugar Buns
Lancelot
Seneca Dancer

Summer sqash
Goldfinger
(something else; i'd have to check my stock)

Winter squash
Tetsukabuto
Kabocha
Nicklow's Delight (or some other butternut)

Pumpkin
Rocket

Pole green beans (saved seeds)
Pole limas (saved seeds; speckled, white, and crosses)

Lettuce and greens (mainly fall, not decided yet but I have some cos and
red leaf lettuce growing now)

Cucumbers
Diva
sweet Success

Garlic (softneck and hardneck, various)

Onions
Copra
Redwing

Leeks
Ricor

Potatos
Carole
All Red (these are pretty plants!)

a few other odds and ends

various herbs

And I grow large zinnias for cutting in the vegetable garden, also 'small'
sunflowers and some glads (to protect them from four-footed pests).

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

(Pat Kiewicz) wrote in message ...
"DaveH" wrote in message
.. .
I'm always interested to know what others are growing.

Paste tomatoes (caged)

did you put them out already? I did ten days ago, in my new full full
sun garden (sunrise to one hour before sunset). I guessed the
continuing wet weather would help with both temperature and moisture
(it sure helped with moisture, and so far it has not gone below 48F).
Also, what do you do with all those toms and veggies in general? I am
already giving away lettuce to anyone who is willing to eat it, and I
know I will be doing the same in august with tomatoes, and I only have
30 plants.