Only 25 More Sleeps Until Planting Time !!

StephenCoote · August 11, 2017

I love growing tomatoes from seed. I will be planting seed for my main crop around the first week of September.

I cut some tomato stakes from a neighbor's bamboo patch this morning:

I had intended to grow just a few varieties this year, but unsurprisingly I've found seeds for some interesting types.... so the list has grown. Because my garden is relatively small.... and because I want to grow more than one vine of some varieties, I intend growing all the indeterminates as single leaders. I'm pleased to have found some Scottish Yellow seeds... although these are maybe six years old. I also have some, evidently de-hybridised, Carmello coming to me. Another promising variety of seed coming by post is Imur Prior Beta which is said to be suited to shorter growing seasons.

Four days ago I placed a couple of Sub-Artic Plenty seeds between the folds of a wet paper towel inside a ziploc bag. Today they had decent sprouts. Tomorrow I'll plant them in seed raising mix in pots. I'll keep them in a warm place.... and hope for the best. I would normally not expect ripe tomatoes before Christmas, but theoretically I could get a few Sub-Arctic fruit significantly earlier than that. The Sub-Arctic sprouts are beautiful and sturdy.

August 11, 2017	#1
StephenCoote Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Nelson, New Zealand Posts: 42	Only 25 More Sleeps Until Planting Time !! I love growing tomatoes from seed. I will be planting seed for my main crop around the first week of September. I cut some tomato stakes from a neighbor's bamboo patch this morning: I had intended to grow just a few varieties this year, but unsurprisingly I've found seeds for some interesting types.... so the list has grown. Because my garden is relatively small.... and because I want to grow more than one vine of some varieties, I intend growing all the indeterminates as single leaders. I'm pleased to have found some Scottish Yellow seeds... although these are maybe six years old. I also have some, evidently de-hybridised, Carmello coming to me. Another promising variety of seed coming by post is Imur Prior Beta which is said to be suited to shorter growing seasons. Four days ago I placed a couple of Sub-Artic Plenty seeds between the folds of a wet paper towel inside a ziploc bag. Today they had decent sprouts. Tomorrow I'll plant them in seed raising mix in pots. I'll keep them in a warm place.... and hope for the best. I would normally not expect ripe tomatoes before Christmas, but theoretically I could get a few Sub-Arctic fruit significantly earlier than that. The Sub-Arctic sprouts are beautiful and sturdy.