what are you most excited about growing this year?

[gardeninglee]

For me, it's Esterina f1! I've been looking for something else besides sungold for a long time. I've been growing sungold for about 6 years now - ever since I first found it.

[LindyAdele]

I'm excited to be trying tomatillos and ground cherries, in order to make some different types of delicious salsa.
As for tomatoes, I think I'm most excited to try the Jazz tomatoes?

[Nan_PA_6b]

As I'm looking for the ultimate fried green tomato, based on my taste buds, I'm excited about trialing Park's Whopper CR Improved, Brandymaster Red, Crimson Carmello, and Gardner's Choice.

Also am excited to be growing salad burnet again. It's a leaf that tastes like cucumber. Since I can't grow a cuke to save my life, I value this plant for salads.

Nan

[Tormato]

After loosing 298 of 300 seedlings last year,
I'm just exited about the new year.

[bower]

I'm starting to get excited about starting some microgreens under lights, pronto, before we die of deficiency of whatever is in dem greens.

[Nan_PA_6b]

Originally Posted by Tormato

After loosing 298 of 300 seedlings last year,
I'm just exited about the new year.

Wow, Tormato, that's some epic badness! What happened?

Nan

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Wow, Tormato, that's some epic badness! What happened?

Nan

300 seedlings on the edge of the driveway, the morning after a rain shower. There's a slight depression in the center of the driveway that fills with water, and is a perfect birdbath. One morning my cousin comes over, and swerves his truck away from the bathing bird. He ran over the first 150.

A few days later, with seedlings about a week old, my brother decides to help me by watering them...with the garden hose. Several plants barely survived to transplant, with one or two dying each day, finally leaving me with three. Two of the three (well, 300) made it. The third, it stopped growing at about 7" (an indeterminate variety) by producing a huge fused blossom at the tip of the leader. Blossom dropped, plant died.

Sgt Peppers was on of the two survivors, but...really stunted. It grew to about 18" and produced 1 1/2 ounce hearts.

The one other plant thrived all summer long with really tasty, but mid sized pink fruit. It was sent to me as "Big Pink Ukraine", but I'll trial it again to see if it's big.

[MissS]

Originally Posted by Tormato

300 seedlings on the edge of the driveway, the morning after a rain shower. There's a slight depression in the center of the driveway that fills with water, and is a perfect birdbath. One morning my cousin comes over, and swerves his truck away from the bathing bird. He ran over the first 150.

A few days later, with seedlings about a week old, my brother decides to help me by watering them...with the garden hose. Several plants barely survived to transplant, with one or two dying each day, finally leaving me with three. Two of the three (well, 300) made it. The third, it stopped growing at about 7" (an indeterminate variety) by producing a huge fused blossom at the tip of the leader. Blossom dropped, plant died.

Sgt Peppers was on of the two survivors, but...really stunted. It grew to about 18" and produced 1 1/2 ounce hearts.

The one other plant thrived all summer long with really tasty, but mid sized pink fruit. It was sent to me as "Big Pink Ukraine", but I'll trial it again to see if it's big.

Have you thought about this... You might have more success if you stop having the 'family' over.

[Fritz77]

Originally Posted by Tormato

300 seedlings on the edge of the driveway, the morning after a rain shower. There's a slight depression in the center of the driveway that fills with water, and is a perfect birdbath. One morning my cousin comes over, and swerves his truck away from the bathing bird. He ran over the first 150.

A few days later, with seedlings about a week old, my brother decides to help me by watering them...with the garden hose. Several plants barely survived to transplant, with one or two dying each day, finally leaving me with three. Two of the three (well, 300) made it. The third, it stopped growing at about 7" (an indeterminate variety) by producing a huge fused blossom at the tip of the leader. Blossom dropped, plant died.

Sgt Peppers was on of the two survivors, but...really stunted. It grew to about 18" and produced 1 1/2 ounce hearts.

The one other plant thrived all summer long with really tasty, but mid sized pink fruit. It was sent to me as "Big Pink Ukraine", but I'll trial it again to see if it's big.

Gary, your posts are always hilarious, but this one really cracked me up! I read it last night before going to sleep and I started laughing so hard that I had one of my strange asthma attacks caused by severe laughs.
I know it was not fun for you, but I couldn't help myself
For some reason this story of you and your struggle to grow tomatoes despite your huge commitment, reminded me of the squirrel and its unreachable acorn in the movie Ice Age
After reading about your struggle with your garden last season, I appreciate even more your enormous effort to supply us with all those precious seeds!

[Gardeneer]

I am both excited and nervous.
I moved 3200 mile from near Pacific (PNW ) to Near Atlantic (Southeast NC ).
I am in an uncharted territory (for me ) weather and soil wise. That is the nervous part.
I am excited to have much warmer weather, bigger garden that I can grow more tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, okra ( I love okra ). Out of close to 35 varieties of tomatoes 20 of them are for the first time.
In addition to excitement and nervousness, there is a lot of anticipation : What to expect !

[BigVanVader]

Hard one, but I think what I'm most excited about is getting back to growing melons. I love melons more than just about anything and earlier this winter I sprouted some 10 year old seed for a variety that I used to grow that was incredibly delecious. I can't wait to bite into another one!

[AlittleSalt]

More realistically: Growing muscle tone / reducing fat.

Hopefully: Growing tomatoes with much less RKN damage.

[KarenO]

Excited for my new garden on the island and growing out the next generations of my crosses!
Best wishes everybody
KarenO

[Father'sDaughter]

I'm excited by the possibility of actually having tomato plants that stay healthy past late July...if I can manage to successfully graft them.

[carolyn137]

And I'm most excited just thinking about which varieties I'll have someone grow for me at home.

I enjoy thinking a lot, it's the doing that often doesn't get done.

Carolyn