Anne's 2014 Garden start-up

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Hi,

Well, this being the Ides of March, I thought today would be the most auspicious day to start planting out my tomatoes !

Here's the line up for my centrally located "big bed" - 5' x 16.' I plan to prune to two leaders on each plant (we'll see how well that goes ). Most of the plants in this batch are grafted onto RST-04-105-T rootstock - they will be designated with an asterisk (*). No particular plan to all this, except I tried to mix up colors, types, sbapes, etc. so I wouldn't have two similar looking types right next to each other.

Row One - running from West to East

Bed Barn (ungrafted control)
Red Barn *
Lucky Cross *
Barlow Japanese *
Wes *
Marvel Stripe *
Wolford Wonder *
Purple Dog Creek *
Margaret Curtain *
Dester *

Row Two - running from West to East

Malachite Box (ungrafted control)
Malachite Box *
Malachite Box - grafted onto Tasmanian Chocolate as Rootstock - to note any dwarfing effect
Dana's Dusky Rose (ungrafted)
KBX *
Cowlick's Brandywine *
Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart *
Cuostralee *
Crnkovic Yugoslavian *

If I can get the next bed cleaned up and labels made, I hope to be planting about another 20 tomorrow. I'll try and post some photos once things are a bit more "developed."

Anne

P.S. After writing this, I came across an ungrafted Malachite Box seedling in my greenhouse. So I took out the Liz Birt - which will go elsewhere - and replaced it with the ungrafted MB. BTW, I prefer the name Malachite Box to the Russian version of the name as we actually have a malachite cigarette box that's been in the family over 50 years. Not that anyone should care !