2018 Mostly Mystery 'Mater Mailing - Page 18

Tormato · January 16, 2019

Going out today...

McG P IL
Ge L NE
D'Am S NY

In a day... or so,

Den A BEL
Sc A GER
St S GER (2nd)
Wa C MN

A few days after that, when the beans are all sorted...

Cr B ID
Jo N NE
So D WI

Waiting to hear from...

Ho M CA

and I'll wrap it up with all of the set-asides and leftovers to ...

NO N CAN

If someone is missing, PM me.

tryno12 · January 17, 2019

Thanks much Gary, received my envelope today and looks as if you read my mind about seeds wanted in addition to the "wish list" I requested!!

Thanks again for all you do!
Pete

January 18, 2019

Package arrived, thanks Tormato! So many lovely seeds, thanks for your time and effort, and thanks to all who generously participate; I wish you all a great 2019 season!

sdambr · January 19, 2019

Wow, and wow again.

Thank you so to all the contributors, and especially Gary! I always love the getting recommended varieties for this years garden, and that is where I start this years list. Not always a success, but it's a start. Hopefully, they will all make it through the season and into next years swap.

If anyone can give me a hand with the beans, it would be very much appreciated I plant a variety of what is sent along a 12' length of netting. My question is how do you keep track of which pole beans are which. I label all when planting, but they seem to pop up and tangle up to a point I cant identify which is which. When harvesting so many look similar that I can't tell them apart to put in the swap. Is there a secret?

Thank you again for all you do Gary!

Tormato · January 19, 2019

Try not to plant similar looking beans near each other. Planting by color is how I usually do it. A few white ones of one variety, then a few black ones, then brown with dark streaks, then two-tone red/white frosted ones, etc...

I do have the luxury of a huge collection of beans with many different colors, shapes, sizes, and patterns.

And, season to season, the size and shape of harvested beans can sometimes vary quite a bit. So, try to keep a large black bean well away from a small black bean. And, a black bean that isn't 100% mature at dry down can be brownish or blueish in color, to add to the confusion.

I hope I didn't send you all white beans.

Let me know what I sent, and I can help you arrange the row.

Raiquee · January 19, 2019

Yes to the bean thing!! I planted teepees with 3 very different beans and I was real confused on some of them! I ended up just eating those for dried beans as I couldn’t figure it out!

greenthumbomaha · January 23, 2019

Woo hoo, a big package was stuffed in my mailbox when I checked before the storm hit. It probably arrived Saturday, but went undiscovered until yesterday (too cold!).

That is a great bean sorting routine. I think this will be the year to finally give the tomato soil a breather and do some experimenting with beans, and flowers, and greens, and leeks, and horehound, and ...
And thank you for remembering the alternate source for Andes Horn, as well as all the others that I messed up on

- Lisa

pmcgrady · January 23, 2019

Wow! What a package! I can't wait to start germinating!
Thanks Gary!

sdambr · January 23, 2019

Thanks for the bean info, the ones I received were all brown, but I have PLENTY from last year and the year before to try to segregate them.

MrBig46 · January 23, 2019

The seeds came on Monday. Gary thank you very much. There's so much I do not know what to do with it yet.

Vladimír

green_go · January 24, 2019

Received my seeds too! Tons of them - everything I asked and gazillion of extras! Thank you very much, Gary, it will take me several days just to sort them out - something fun to do during cold and gloomy evenings.

KarenO · January 24, 2019

Dear Gary,
My fat little package was happily in my mailbox today, as always so much more than expected. I have an inkling how much work this is and I wish to thank you very much for all you do.
I hold you partially responsible for the seed addiction I happily suffer from.
Thank you as well to everyone who contributes their seeds! What a wonderful group
I wish you all your best ever season!
KarenO

Tormato · January 26, 2019

Quote:

Originally Posted by KarenO

Dear Gary,
My fat little package was happily in my mailbox today, as always so much more than expected. I have an inkling how much work this is and I wish to thank you very much for all you do.
I hold you partially responsible for the seed addiction I happily suffer from.
Thank you as well to everyone who contributes their seeds! What a wonderful group
I wish you all your best ever season!
KarenO

The swap is supposed to be the cure for that which ails you. For some, there's no overcoming the addiction.

I'm sorry about the lack of non-red determinate tomatoes. Varieties coming in generally are labeled as determinate or as by color, but not by both. Plus, there may not be that many non-reds circulating among traders. If you come up with a list for next year, or start a T'ville thread on the subject, I'll know what to look out for.

Tormato · January 26, 2019

Listing these new melon/watermelon donations, because there are a few participants that will want some of them...

melon

Casaba Gold Beauty
Burrell's Jumbo
Delicious 51
Hearts of Gold
Honey Rock
Juan Canary
Vendrantais

watermelon

Carolina Cross #183
Clay County Yellow Meat
Cream of Saskatchewan
Crimson Sweet
Dixie Queen
Florida Giant
Moon & Stars
Moon & Stars Red
Orange Tendersweet
Petite Yellow
Scaly Bark
Shiny Boy

oldman · January 26, 2019

I'm interested in some of those watermelon (Florida Giant, Petite Yellow, Scaly Bark, Shiny Boy). Should I just send you an SASE since my packet has already arrived?

January 19, 2019	#259
sdambr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 421	Wow, and wow again. Thank you so to all the contributors, and especially Gary! I always love the getting recommended varieties for this years garden, and that is where I start this years list. Not always a success, but it's a start. Hopefully, they will all make it through the season and into next years swap. If anyone can give me a hand with the beans, it would be very much appreciated I plant a variety of what is sent along a 12' length of netting. My question is how do you keep track of which pole beans are which. I label all when planting, but they seem to pop up and tangle up to a point I cant identify which is which. When harvesting so many look similar that I can't tell them apart to put in the swap. Is there a secret? Thank you again for all you do Gary! __________________ Sue "There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

January 19, 2019	#261
Raiquee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 307	Yes to the bean thing!! I planted teepees with 3 very different beans and I was real confused on some of them! I ended up just eating those for dried beans as I couldn’t figure it out! __________________ Desire' Mother of 3, homesteader, canner, gardener, dwarf tomato participant.

January 23, 2019	#264
sdambr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 421	Thanks for the bean info, the ones I received were all brown, but I have PLENTY from last year and the year before to try to segregate them. __________________ Sue "There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

January 24, 2019	#266
green_go Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Canada, Ontario, z5a Posts: 142	Received my seeds too! Tons of them - everything I asked and gazillion of extras! Thank you very much, Gary, it will take me several days just to sort them out - something fun to do during cold and gloomy evenings. __________________ Gala

January 16, 2019	#256
Tormato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MA Posts: 4,971	Going out today... McG P IL Ge L NE D'Am S NY In a day... or so, Den A BEL Sc A GER St S GER (2nd) Wa C MN A few days after that, when the beans are all sorted... Cr B ID Jo N NE So D WI Waiting to hear from... Ho M CA and I'll wrap it up with all of the set-asides and leftovers to ... NO N CAN If someone is missing, PM me.

January 17, 2019	#257
tryno12 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Indianapolis Area 46112 Posts: 857	Thanks much Gary, received my envelope today and looks as if you read my mind about seeds wanted in addition to the "wish list" I requested!! Thanks again for all you do! Pete

January 18, 2019	#258
MdTNGrdner Guest Posts: n/a	Package arrived, thanks Tormato! So many lovely seeds, thanks for your time and effort, and thanks to all who generously participate; I wish you all a great 2019 season!

January 19, 2019	#260
Tormato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MA Posts: 4,971	Try not to plant similar looking beans near each other. Planting by color is how I usually do it. A few white ones of one variety, then a few black ones, then brown with dark streaks, then two-tone red/white frosted ones, etc... I do have the luxury of a huge collection of beans with many different colors, shapes, sizes, and patterns. And, season to season, the size and shape of harvested beans can sometimes vary quite a bit. So, try to keep a large black bean well away from a small black bean. And, a black bean that isn't 100% mature at dry down can be brownish or blueish in color, to add to the confusion. I hope I didn't send you all white beans. Let me know what I sent, and I can help you arrange the row.

January 23, 2019	#262
greenthumbomaha Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Omaha Zone 5 Posts: 2,514	Woo hoo, a big package was stuffed in my mailbox when I checked before the storm hit. It probably arrived Saturday, but went undiscovered until yesterday (too cold!). That is a great bean sorting routine. I think this will be the year to finally give the tomato soil a breather and do some experimenting with beans, and flowers, and greens, and leeks, and horehound, and ... And thank you for remembering the alternate source for Andes Horn, as well as all the others that I messed up on - Lisa

January 23, 2019	#263
pmcgrady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 1,836	Wow! What a package! I can't wait to start germinating! Thanks Gary!

January 24, 2019	#267
KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,932	Dear Gary, My fat little package was happily in my mailbox today, as always so much more than expected. I have an inkling how much work this is and I wish to thank you very much for all you do. I hold you partially responsible for the seed addiction I happily suffer from. Thank you as well to everyone who contributes their seeds! What a wonderful group I wish you all your best ever season! KarenO

January 26, 2019	#269
Tormato Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MA Posts: 4,971	Listing these new melon/watermelon donations, because there are a few participants that will want some of them... melon Casaba Gold Beauty Burrell's Jumbo Delicious 51 Hearts of Gold Honey Rock Juan Canary Vendrantais watermelon Carolina Cross #183 Clay County Yellow Meat Cream of Saskatchewan Crimson Sweet Dixie Queen Florida Giant Moon & Stars Moon & Stars Red Orange Tendersweet Petite Yellow Scaly Bark Shiny Boy

January 26, 2019	#270
oldman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Kansas 5b Posts: 198	I'm interested in some of those watermelon (Florida Giant, Petite Yellow, Scaly Bark, Shiny Boy). Should I just send you an SASE since my packet has already arrived?