Sausage and other, tomatoes.

[Worth1]

This one I am happy with, I am letting it sprawl, it is putting on fruit like a cherry tomato and it looks like a bush.
Every truss is setting fruit and no BER.
I have tried several paste type tomatoes this year as I want to get seeds and my stock is getting old.
Even if it has no real flavor it will taste good in a salsa with peppers.
Or look good in a salad.

Opalka is doing well also.

It’s not a paste but I am real happy with Break O’ Day.
My plants won’t stop putting on fruit, like Carolyn said; it is a real work horse.
I’m glad I saved seeds from the tomatoes that Suze gave me.
I wish I had saved more.

Homestead is also doing great along with red rocket what a fantastic plant these are.

Strange as it may seem I don’t have any of the plants labeled and I can still tell what many are without looking at a map.

Worth

[robin303]

I made a zillion lables putting scrape 1x's through my table saw about 3/16 thick. They will rot after one season and and as a standby I use plastic milk jugs and cut them in strips about 3/4. Did that after seeing the prices for lables at Homer. They are out of their mind.

[Worth1]

I have been buying the green plastic surveyors tape/ribbon and using a paint marker on it.

I then tie the ribbon to the plant or cage.

Its easy to see cheap and will last all season.
An added plus is if a C 130 wants to land they can see what direction the wind is blowing.

Worth

[carolyn137]

Strange as it may seem I don’t have any of the plants labeled and I can still tell what many are without looking at a map.


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Fine. I'll send you seeds for 25 large pink PL ( or RL, my choice) varieties and you ID which ones they are by sight and taste alone. Of course I'd send the complete list with the seeds.

Worth, you MUST try Heidi for a paste tomato, you just must. I don'thave any seeds left to send you but I know lots of others have them.

I am saved. A great citizen of Tville just sent me a box of dark chocolate covered sponge candy and is it ever great. And here I was pretending to stay on a diet and had no nuts, no chocolate, no Double Stuffed Oreos, no Pecan Sandies, no nuttin, when this surprise package came this morning. And I got good news at the dentists' yesterday so as celebration there's Fettucini Alfredo with chicken in my future as well.

[coronabarb]

Worth,

I am growing Heidi and can send you seeds, if you send me some Break O' Day.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by coronabarb

Worth,

I am growing Heidi and can send you seeds, if you send me some Break O' Day.

Thanks so much Barb and am I ever glad I started distributing Break O Day seeds to lots of folks as well as intoducing Heidi as well and I hope it does great for you as it has for so many.

For old times sake you and I have got to catch up. I tried, as others did, to contact you but it was no go, so please send me an e-mail at cmale@aol.com and we can go from there.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Strange as it may seem I don’t have any of the plants labeled and I can still tell what many are without looking at a map.


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Fine. I'll send you seeds for 25 large pink PL ( or RL, my choice) varieties and you ID which ones they are by sight and taste alone. Of course I'd send the complete list with the seeds.

Worth, you MUST try Heidi for a paste tomato, you just must. I don'thave any seeds left to send you but I know lots of others have them.

I am saved. A great citizen of Tville just sent me a box of dark chocolate covered sponge candy and is it ever great. And here I was pretending to stay on a diet and had no nuts, no chocolate, no Double Stuffed Oreos, no Pecan Sandies, no nuttin, when this surprise package came this morning. And I got good news at the dentists' yesterday so as celebration there's Fettucini Alfredo with chicken in my future as well.

I don't know what to say.

I cant tell what some of the plants are as they look the same.

But what happened was I had my DW putting out plants according to my list and when I got to looking at them later they were not what the were supposed to be they were something else.

I can tell the differance from Black plumb and Brandywine or if the leaf dosent look right I know one got skipped and it is the next thing listed in the row.

But I have pointed to a certain plant and said, thats Break O Day and when I looked at the list it was.

I think is more of memorizing on my part then anything else.
but with time I'm sure I will get better.

25 different seeds from the same type of tomato PL or RL sounds like a challenge.

I will have to add that no seeds will be offered from me that I haven't guessed right about.

Worth

[coronabarb]

"I think is more of memorizing on my part then anything else."

I think it is because these are our 'kids' so to speak and we get to know them.

Carolyn, for some reason, I didn't get most of those emails. Maybe they went to an old account. I will email you in the next day or so with all that is going on in my very exciting life.

[cecilsgarden1958]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

...A great citizen of Tville just sent me a box of dark chocolate covered sponge candy and is it ever great. And here I was pretending to stay on a diet and had no nuts, no chocolate, no Double Stuffed Oreos, no Pecan Sandies, no nuttin, when this surprise package came this morning....

Carolyn: Sponge Candy???????

CECIL

[Worth1]

Barb you have a deal.

As soon as they ripen I will pack up a whole bunch for you, plus some.


Worth

[Earl]

To know what is where, I give each plant type a number and make a diagram of the rows. I also write the number on the bottom half of a piece of duck tape then fold the tape over the cage wire. It's easy to keep track of what's what, use a Sharpie to write the number on the fruit when harvesting.

The best canner I've found to date is Andes Horn, and I've tried a lot of them during the last 10 years. It's also great fresh eating which is hard to say about paste types. Also prolific, 80 days or longer, and a large leafed huge plant.

[cecilsgarden1958]

Originally Posted by Earl

To know what is where, I give each plant type a number and make a diagram of the rows. I also write the number on the bottom half of a piece of duck tape then fold the tape over the cage wire. It's easy to keep track of what's what, use a Sharpie to write the number on the fruit when harvesting.

Earl, would you believe I know people that not only don't keep track of which plant is where, but they have no idea as to what they even planted? How can anyone live like that?

I have a map & I plant in groups of four and label each group with a large plastic T tag from Park's Seed. My only problem comes when one of the four deceases itself somehow and I don't have the same type replacement. I hate that :-(

My manager at work is growing seeds for the first time and wouldn't you know it, he doesn't know what he planted. Aaugh!

CECIL
(Did I mention I am working in our store's garden center, this year? I found some good plants that way)

[coronabarb]

"Did I mention I am working in our store's garden center, this year? I found some good plants that way."

Lucky you, Cecil!!

[Ruth_10]

...would you believe I know people that not only don't keep track of which plant is where, but they have no idea as to what they even planted? How can anyone live like that?

This "don't know what they planted" behavior is a close cousin to people abusing (not maliciously but perhaps carelessly) seedlings you've given to them (See "Heirloom tomatoes--sharing a few seedlings" thread).

[coronabarb]

I do make a plot plan, just in case. But I also put the plant names on old (or new) CD's with a sharpie and wire them to the cages...easy to see from a distance...lots of AOL CD's in the garden.