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Old April 14, 2016   #331
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Today I potted up into 4" pots:
ISPL - Repeat but first time as a PL
Daniel Burson - 1st time
GGWT - 1st time
Cherokee Carbon - 1st time
Spudatula - first time growing the PL variety
Carbon Copy - 1st time
NAR - repeat
Rebel Yell - 1st time
Biyskaya Roza - 1st time
Moravsky Div - 1st time
Cherokee Green - repeat
Aunt Gertie's Gold - my third and last attempt
Sun Sugar - repeat
Green Tiger - repeat
Maglia Rosa - new
Rosella - new
Bulgarian Triumph - new
George Detsikas Italian Red
Orange Minsk
And I started seeds for Sun Gold, Captain Lucky and Orange Caprese which haven't germinated yet.
Nice list, I've got quite a few of the same ready for the ground. I'm behind in getting these puppies planted, at least by my standards. Here's my list:

Black Beauty
Cherokee Green
Green Giant
Carbon
JD's Special C Tex
Rebel Yell
Neves Azorean Red
OR117
Copper River
Orange Minsk Heart
Pink Berkley Tie Dye

Lucky Tiger
Magila Rosa
Bulgarian Triumph
Esmerelda Golosina
Secret Sauce
Carbon Copy
Sweet Tooth

And dwarfs:
Sweet Scarlet
Summertime Gold
Rosella Purple
Rosella Crimson
Choc. Lightning
Taz. Chocolate
Adelaide Festival
Emerald Giant
Fred's Tie Dye
Pink Passion
Beryl Beauty
Uluru Ochre

Hope to do some planting this weekend.
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Old April 18, 2016   #332
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This should be it, the first 5 varieties will be in ground, others in containers. Thinking of making some self watering containers out of 2 gallon buckets.
Red Pearl
Super Sweet 100
Sun Gold
Indigo Rose
Beefsteak
Tiny Tim
Ditmarsher
Tumbling Tom Yellow
Whippersnapper
Red Robin
Mohamed
Floragold Basket
Patio Princess
Venus
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Old April 18, 2016   #333
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OK; my final list (as seeds sown)

Amber Colored
Amethyst Cream
BKX
Bosky Chabarovsky
Esmeralda G
GGWT
Kosovo
Lime Green Salad
Maglia Rosa
Pink Baby F1
Purple Bumblebee
Russian/Ukrainan Purple

Already growing in full swing

Pearly Pink Orange
Red Robin
Dar Rozovyi..

For Mom

Azoychka
Golden Nugget
Dar Rozovyii
Red Robin
Sophie'Choice
?

I try to stick to these lovelies and not sow anything else...
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Old April 18, 2016   #334
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This is my first year and I decided to start with all dwarfs. I didn't grow them from seed, but picked up seedlings last week at the local plant show. (I am growing other veggies from seed.)

Adelaide Festival
Big Green Dwarf
Boronia
Chocolate Lightning
Dwarf Arctic Rose
Dwarf Blazing Beauty
Dwarf Mahogany
Dwarf Purple Heart
Rosella Crimson
Rosella Purple

I meant to pick up a Dwarf Sweet Sue and Dwarf Beryl Beauty, but forgot. I was also hoping for BrandyFred, Kookaburra Cackle, Uluru Ochre, and Fred's Tie Dye, but my source didn't grow the first three, and the fourth was sold out by the time I got there.
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Old May 22, 2016   #335
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Brandywine
Rutgers
Bush Beefsteak
Red Robin

Boring, but you gotta start somewhere, right?
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Old May 22, 2016   #336
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KayJay, there's nothing wrong with your list, so much of this is about self exploration and learning which varieties you like and don't like and which one's grow better for you in your zone/area...

After this season you'll know which varieties you'll want to grow again in '17.

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Old May 22, 2016   #337
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The current grow-to list - all live seedlings, some already planted in containers:

Amethyst Cream Cherry
BKX
Dar Zavolzhkaya Rozovyi
Esmeralda Golosina
Fuzzy Wuzzy
GGWT
Kosovo
Lime Green Salad
Maglia Rosa
Pearly Pink Orange
Pink Baby F1
Purple Bumblebee
Red Robin

For Mom - all planted:

Azoychka
Dar Z Rozovyi
Golden Nugget
?
Red Robin
Sophie's Choice

No more than one black variety this year (unless Purple Bumblebee is counted as black)... but hopefully it'll be a fruitful one.
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Old June 30, 2016   #338
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Here is my list. We have them in garden boxes, containers and in the ground. Couldn't pull up "volunteers" so the remaining spots are "who knows"

Aunt Rubys Green
Azoychika
Beaver Lodge
Black Cherry
Black from Tula
Black Pineapple
Brandywine Yellow
Carolina Gold
Cherokee Purple
Emerald Evergreen
Ghost Cherry
Hillbilly
Kellogs Breakfast
Lemon Boy
Lillian’s Yellow
Marglobe
Mortage Lifter
Moskovick
Oregon Spring
Paul Robeson (2)
Rainbow
Red Sweetheart
Sungold
Tennessee Surprise
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My Everglades are finished for the year here in Miami. The bloody butcher never made it into the pots. I have to wait for October here to plant but I need to do some heavy prep to the pots. I found dry cat food works wonders. I will try a mix of the cat food, Tomato tone, and epsom salts.
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Old July 1, 2016   #340
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I have published my list months ago. Now they are fruiting.
But today I was Frey Meyers . They had some miserable lanky root bound plants for 99 cents each.
There was some Juliets. What the heck. I bought one. I always wanted to grow one Juliet. Now I got it with several flowers on It.
I loosened up the roots in water and planted it real deep in a 6 gallon pot.
I am determined to revive it.
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Old July 1, 2016   #341
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Gardeneer, for me, I first thought to experience a gardening season like that in WA would be somewhat like walking on Mars. But in the same thought - growing here in Texas at this time is watching tomato plants die as newly started ones are growing at incredible rates. Here you need to hurry up and get the spring plants out because the fall garden tomato plants are pushing for an in-ground garden space.

It is different, but in-a-way, it's the same. You can still plant new tomato plants and so can I. The timing and conditions are different, but somewhat alike.
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Old July 1, 2016   #342
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Robert, you are right about growing tomatoes in NW WA. Our summer is just beginning. The highs are around mid 70s and night low around 53F. July and August will be a bit warmer and September will be like June. By mid October we will be done because of cool weather.

So my Juliet still has a chance to prove itself.

I am in a situation right now that I might move to NC (zone 8a) . where there is acres of land to garden. There and then it will be an all new ball game. I have gardened in zone 7b in GA and I know what it is like back there.

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Old July 18, 2016   #343
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Tomatoes:
Transplanted into a hoop house in November '15 and starting to load up:

Striped German
Cherokee Purple
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Bloody Butcher
Cherokee Chocolate
Chocolate Stripes
Hillbilly
Stupice
Captain Lucky

Transplanted into a newly build hoop house in January '16 and showing nice growth:
AAA Sweet Solano
Pink BTD
BTD
Haley's Purple Comet
Pork Chop
Kaleidoscopic Jewel
Blue Berries
Big Sungold Select
Blue Gold
Lover's Lunch
Lucid Gem
Cosmic Eclipse
Candy Sweet Icicle
Boar's Tooth
Black Beauty
Purple Bumblebee

Peppers:
Pepperoncini - Italian
Jimmy Nardello
Lipstick
Midnight Dreams Bell
Mini Yellow Bell
Mini Red Bell
Oda
Peperone de Cuneo
Topepo Rosso
Anaheim
Buena Mulata
Poblano
Numex Suave Orange
Patagonia
Ordono
Sonoran Chiltepin
Fish
Black Hungarian
Scotch Bonnet
Tequila Sunrise

Watermelon:
Ali Baba
Orangeglo
Ledmon
Hopi Yellow

Melon:
Madhu Ras Honey Melon
Hale's Best 45
Swan Lake
Petit Gris de Rennes


I'm new to all of these except Cherokee Purple, Hillbilly, Striped German, Bloody Butcher, Poblano, and Anaheim. Never tried growing a melon before, should be interesting.


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How is the Numex Suave Orange production and taste? Is it worth all that excitement?
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Old August 10, 2016   #344
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timbucktwo;
How are your Gogosha and Olena Ukrainian plants growing this year?

I grew both side by side a few years ago and came to the conclusion
they were the same tomato with different names, Both are beefsteaks,
pink, potato leaf, indeterminate, midseason, with similar sized fruit,
same plant structure and leaf color. Both have Ukrainian heritage.
I can't recall how the fruit tasted.

Will you share your thoughts on these two varieties?

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