How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry

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Just started 2 Black Crimean tomatoes (and Headband :leaf:), some Amish ones to follow.
The vines are purple/black and spring roots at every node above ground, taste amazing.
Real easy maintenance, no excessive leaves, drought tolerant
I can LST them and clone them easy if weather doesn't break.

Lost my Armenian Cuke seeds, now I got to find a pack.
I bought 1/4 pound of Armenian seeds from Amazon {for 16 bucks I think}. If you need a few, I'd be glad to share them.
 

too larry

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i got a pumpkin out, two watermelons, three burpless cucs, my garlic bed last year is already full of volunteers, so i added some peas between the rows...wanna try to make those pea chips you can only get for a few months a year...got a giant jalapeno for poppers, 2 green peppers, 2 tequlia sunrise, and 2 thai hots going...gotta pick up an eggplant or two. i have the worst luck starting eggplant from seed...oh, and the apparently perennial strawberries are back...
i'll take some pics in a day or two when it isn't raining..
I need to plant some melons. 10-12th is good above ground days. If I get a tractor battery in town tomorrow, and if I disc the garden, and if. . . . .

I'm not great at eggplant starts either. I have seed, but always forget them with the early stuff.
 

xtsho

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I need to plant some melons. 10-12th is good above ground days. If I get a tractor battery in town tomorrow, and if I disc the garden, and if. . . . .

I'm not great at eggplant starts either. I have seed, but always forget them with the early stuff.

I only had two of my eggplant starts come up but that's all I need anyway. I used some old seeds I still had. The seedlings look like a potato leaf variety of tomato called Stupice. But they'll be easily identifiable in a short time. But when young it's hard to tell them apart. Tomatoes and eggplants both belong to the nightshade family along with potatoes and peppers. I'm sure you know that. Just tossing that tidbit of info for those that might not have known. All the other tomato varieties I'm growing are regular leaf.




My other tomato and pepper starts are coming along and should be ready to put out in May. I have everything under T5's. They should be bigger but I put them outside in the greenhouse too early and they stopped growing for awhile. It was too cold.


 

DCcan

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I bought 1/4 pound of Armenian seeds from Amazon {for 16 bucks I think}. If you need a few, I'd be glad to share them.
I already picked up a pack, thanks Larry. they were harder to find than I thought.
We got snow today. I usually just rake a patch after the last snow and throw a handful of peas down.

@xtsho , the Amish paste are like those San Marzanos, just fatter but really deep red, low seeds and water content. San Marzanos have that deeper tomato taste, hard to forget.
 

too larry

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I only had two of my eggplant starts come up but that's all I need anyway. I used some old seeds I still had. The seedlings look like a potato leaf variety of tomato called Stupice. But they'll be easily identifiable in a short time. But when young it's hard to tell them apart. Tomatoes and eggplants both belong to the nightshade family along with potatoes and peppers. I'm sure you know that. Just tossing that tidbit of info for those that might not have known. All the other tomato varieties I'm growing are regular leaf.




My other tomato and pepper starts are coming along and should be ready to put out in May. I have everything under T5's. They should be bigger but I put them outside in the greenhouse too early and they stopped growing for awhile. It was too cold.


Man, your label game is strong. You know how to make a guy with sun and rain washed sharpie on milk jug strips feel inadequate. lol

I need to cup or plant a bunch of sprouts soon. The Indian Broad beans especially. The grow tons of roots right off the bat.

I picked up a pack of eggplant seeds 2-3 years back. Not long after that Mamma stopped at the Co-op for squash seeds, and came home with two trash bags of free seeds. There was a big bag of eggplant seeds in there. I haven't tried them, but all the other seeds I tried had pretty good germ rates.
 

xtsho

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I already picked up a pack, thanks Larry. they were harder to find than I thought.
We got snow today. I usually just rake a patch after the last snow and throw a handful of peas down.

@xtsho , the Amish paste are like those San Marzanos, just fatter but really deep red, low seeds and water content. San Marzanos have that deeper tomato taste, hard to forget.
Those Amish paste look like a decent tomato. There are just too many tomato varieties out there. I just went with seeds I already had this year except for the Delicious which is a beefsteak. I usually grow Mortgage Lifter but thought I would try out the Delicious. Next year I'll have to buy more seed so I'll try some different varieties. But I always grow the Siletz. It was developed here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and does really good here. Here is the description for the Delicious:

"77 days, indeterminate — The 'Delicious' tomato is one of our most popular home garden varieties. The regular leaf plants set loads of huge fruits that typically weigh in the one pound range. If the plants are grown in the right conditions and are really happy, they may crank out some two to three pound monsters for you.

The fruits are generally smooth skinned with some ribbing at the crown, red in color, fairly crack resistant, with solid interiors and very few seeds. An excellent slicing tomato."

I've been planting peas for awhile now. Multiple plantings about a week apart. I already have plants a few inches tall. I hate the snow.



Man, your label game is strong. You know how to make a guy with sun and rain washed sharpie on milk jug strips feel inadequate. lol

I need to cup or plant a bunch of sprouts soon. The Indian Broad beans especially. The grow tons of roots right off the bat.

I picked up a pack of eggplant seeds 2-3 years back. Not long after that Mamma stopped at the Co-op for squash seeds, and came home with two trash bags of free seeds. There was a big bag of eggplant seeds in there. I haven't tried them, but all the other seeds I tried had pretty good germ rates.
My labels are not outside in the elements or else they would be all faded by now. I'm not happy with them. I couldn't find a black sharpie when I labeled and had to use a green one. I've cut up plastic jugs before to make labels. The ones I'm using now were $15 for 500 on amazon. I'm going to start using pencil instead of a sharpie so it's easy to reuse them.
 

too larry

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Those Amish paste look like a decent tomato. There are just too many tomato varieties out there. I just went with seeds I already had this year except for the Delicious which is a beefsteak. I usually grow Mortgage Lifter but thought I would try out the Delicious. Next year I'll have to buy more seed so I'll try some different varieties. But I always grow the Siletz. It was developed here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and does really good here. Here is the description for the Delicious:

"77 days, indeterminate — The 'Delicious' tomato is one of our most popular home garden varieties. The regular leaf plants set loads of huge fruits that typically weigh in the one pound range. If the plants are grown in the right conditions and are really happy, they may crank out some two to three pound monsters for you.

The fruits are generally smooth skinned with some ribbing at the crown, red in color, fairly crack resistant, with solid interiors and very few seeds. An excellent slicing tomato."

I've been planting peas for awhile now. Multiple plantings about a week apart. I already have plants a few inches tall. I hate the snow.





My labels are not outside in the elements or else they would be all faded by now. I'm not happy with them. I couldn't find a black sharpie when I labeled and had to use a green one. I've cut up plastic jugs before to make labels. The ones I'm using now were $15 for 500 on amazon. I'm going to start using pencil instead of a sharpie so it's easy to reuse them.
Outdoors pencil followed by sharpie works pretty good. Also if it's long term, like weed, I make sure the label is covered so I'll be able to read it in the fall.
 

too larry

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4 of my 5 big acorn oaks are looking good. I'm thinking of putting them out front near the road. The ones here at work were bigger when we bought them, but they have made really pretty trees.

Not the best picture due to too much green shit in the background. But you get the old plow bonus view.

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DCcan

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Those Amish paste look like a decent tomato. There are just too many tomato varieties out there. I just went with seeds I already had this year except for the Delicious which is a beefsteak. I usually grow Mortgage Lifter but thought I would try out the Delicious. Next year I'll have to buy more seed so I'll try some different varieties. But I always grow the Siletz. It was developed here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and does really good here. Here is the description for the Delicious:
Only tomatoes have more varieties than weed. I usually try a new variety every year, always a blast. Those Atomic Grapes look awesome. I need a new cherry, tired of last years endless super100's.

The Moskovich was hit or miss with flavor. Real early producer, but nothing special last year. Not on my grow list again. I almost tried the Siletz last year, saw plants at the Garden store. My father in law in Coos Co. had those. Good eating with smoked sturgeon, still remember that tomato!

The more i look at those Amish Paste, I realized they are a cross of San Marzanos with their German type strain that was common thru PA. I can taste it in one rounder pheno I used for sandwich slicers. That was a nice surprise plant. Maybe I'll get another one this year.
 
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RevRico

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Only tomatoes have more varieties than weed. I usually try a new variety every year, always a blast. Those Atomic Grapes look awesome. I need a new cherry, tired of last years endless super100's.

The Moskovich was hit or miss with flavor. Real early producer, but nothing special last year. Not on my grow list again. I almost tried the Siletz last year, saw plants at the Garden store. My father in law in Coos Co. had those. Good eating with smoked sturgeon, still remember that tomato!

The more i look at those Amish Paste, I realized they are a cross of San Marzanos with their German type strain that was common thru PA. I can taste it in one rounder pheno I used for sandwich slicers. That was a nice surprise plant. Maybe I'll get another one this year.
Rareseeds.com aka Baker creek heirloom seeds for the Brads atomic, and other psychedelic looking varieties of everything you can grow from seed.

I also have some black cherry and chocolate cherry tomatoes going. I don't even like eating tomatoes "straight" but the chocolate cherry ones are delicious.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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4 of my 5 big acorn oaks are looking good. I'm thinking of putting them out front near the road. The ones here at work were bigger when we bought them, but they have made really pretty trees.

Not the best picture due to too much green shit in the background. But you get the old plow bonus view.

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what kind of oak? some grow 8-12 inches a year, and some grow as fast as 48 inches a year...
 

ChronicWonders.

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I hate raking and cleaning up their damn acorns. Thankfully late in the fall the resident ducks assist in clean up. Have some white oaks on the property close to 100 ft.
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For cherry tomatoes give jaune flamme a try or chocolate cherries. Otherwise some good overall tomatoes imo: Nebraska wedding, oxheart, Cherokee purples, Italian heirloom, green zebras and costoluto genevoses for sauces.
 

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too larry

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Yesterday I got the tractor going, mowed the yard, disc the garden and worked on the spot I had the Indian Broad beans last year. There is a live blowdown hanging down that had to have serious pruning before I could get the old fence down so I could get the tractor to it.

Also transplanted the 3 Mammoth Jalapeno into a kiddie pool.

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too larry

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Starting on the west end, down by the sprouts I put a temporary fence around, I planted 6 rows of Pink Eyed Purple Hull peas, 6 rows of Blue Lake green beans, 6 rows of Clemson Spineless Okra, 8 rows of Silver Queen sweet corn, 3 rows of Crimson Sweets and 4 rows of Charleston Grey's.

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