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Does anyone know if Lowes / Home Depot has seeds in yet? Also what
tomato do I grow in this area that is the most disease resistant? I am determined to have tomatoes this year after 3 years of disappointment !!!!!!! Any and all help appreciated. MJ |
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:21:09 -0800 (PST) in mj wrote:
Does anyone know if Lowes / Home Depot has seeds in yet? Also what tomato do I grow in this area that is the most disease resistant? I am determined to have tomatoes this year after 3 years of disappointment !!!!!!! Any and all help appreciated. I have not been in such a store recently, so I haven't looked. I don't know how many tomatoes you intend to grow, but it's reached the point where it just makes more sense to go with 1 or 2 4packs from Homewood nursery (Or the similar place off of ten ten). If you co-plant with marigolds for nematode control and mulch to prevent soil from splashing on the leaves, you should not have much problem with disease unless the plants were already infected with early blight. Add lime so there is extra calcium to prevent blossom end rot, and plan to do battle with tobacco horn worms. The Mortgage Lifter heirloom did very well for me 2 summers ago grown in the high calcium compost available from dirt cheap. If you're insistent upon seed The good. Johnny's Selected Seeds (johnnyseeds.com) has excellent information on disease resistance for all of their varieties and their customer service is excellent. They are one of the few companies that markets to both home growers and produce farmers. They are pushing NCSU's "Defiant PhR" tomato this year, but honestly, I'd buy some flats of mortgage lifter and brandywine from homewood, a bag of lime, and put out landscaping fabric over a soaker hose and High Mowing Seeds (highmowingseeds.com) also has good information on disease resistance on their website. Their customer service is EXCELLENT. And they also market to both home growers and produce farmers. cover with leaf mulch. Territorial Seed Company (territorialseed.com) also has good information on disease resistance on their website. Thompson Morgan has had very comptetive prices on some of the parthenocarpic hybrids of cucumbers and zuchinni. But they will spam you to death afterwards. The bad That B company that has their name stuck on many of the seed displays you see in the big box stores does not seem to provide ANY disease resistance information on their website. Have fun reading the seed packets. Be warned they remove the useful information from most of them in the name of selling seed. That FM company that has their name stuck on many of the seed displays No disease information on their web site. Have fun reading the seed packets. Be warned they remove the useful information from most of them in the name of selling seed and stuff for starting seed. The awful. That PS company out of South Carolina. I was enamored by their website and selection, but their customer service and shipping policies suck. Don't use them if you want your seed on time. Email me if you want the expansions of B, FM, and PS. Sadly the way the page ranking crap works, and how people are more apt to complain, the really crappy companies float to the top in the search engines. I'm going to try and do my best to just give the names and sites of the good ones. MJ |
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On Jan 14, 7:21*pm, mj wrote:
Does anyone know if Lowes / Home Depot has seeds in yet? Also what tomato do I grow in this area that is the most disease resistant? I am determined to have tomatoes this year after 3 years of disappointment !!!!!!! Any and all help appreciated. MJ Craig LeHoullier is a local source for good plants. Here is his website. I just found it. I think he used to sell plants at the farmers market. Not sure if he still follows this NG or not. http://nctomatoman.weebly.com/ Plants are preferable to seeds for me, but if you are willing to make the effort, plants from seeds can be an interesting project. I never could get the timing right and kept getting plants too spindly or I would neglect them and lose them. |
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I like to wait and get the actual plants from Lowes. You get them a little later but it always seemed to be the safer route because I can't get the seeds to grow sometimes. |
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On 01/20/2011 09:39 AM, Mulcher25 wrote:
I like to wait and get the actual plants from Lowes. You get them a little later but it always seemed to be the safer route because I can't get the seeds to grow sometimes. There are difficult-to-evaluate risks either way. Some years we've had disappointing results with homegrown "starts." Some years the Big Box retailers (including Lowe's) sold seedlings which were (unknown to them) infected with Late Blight. Google on "tomato late blight big box" to read lots of details. You could hedge your bets by doing both -- DIY starts and purchased seedlings. We like to plant several varieties of tomato on the (optimistic) principle that a pathogen which destroys one cultivar may spare another. We've found the prized heirloom varieties to be more susceptible to disease than modern hybrids. YMMV. Daniel B. Martin |
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