It's seed starting time! What are you growing for 2018?

[Nan_PA_6b]

Seeds from Romania:

• Buzau 22
• Buzau 47
• Inima de Bou
• Timpurii

Spain:

• Colgar Alacon
• Flor de Artana
• Ramallet San Llorens
• Ramallet des Figueral
• Ramallet Ibiza Blanca

Italy:

• Pomodoro Di Sorrento
• Pomodoro sel. Sorrento

And the rest:

• Big Beef
• Dotson's Lebanese Heart
• Dr. Carolyn
• Early Girl
• Hardin's Miniature
• Heinz 1429
• Kosovo
• Mat-Su Express
• Post Office Runt
• Post Office Spoonful
• RAE-F2 (a homemade cross)
• Sungold
• Targinnie Red
• Wild Tiger

Starting late March.

Nan

[MrBig46]

I will sow the indeterminate tomatoes of the weekend varieties. They will be Spanish tomatoes, some Czech early and big hearts, a total of 48 varieties - 80 plants.
Vladimír

[Gardeneer]

I sowed my seeds over 4 weeks ago , now growing under light nicely. My intende plantout date is early April. So I have 4 more weeks. Weather permitting (based on forecast) I might jump in little early. Last year I planted some experimentals on March 12 then a week later got freezing temperatures for couple of night. So those were my sacrifices to the mother nature.

[HudsonValley]

Originally Posted by pmcgrady

My Hardin's are zero germination, the rest of the dwarfs are up and going , but it's been spotty. First year for dwarfs, so I have a lot to learn. Dwarf Purple Heart is interesting, and a few others

I've had uneven results with dwarfs, too. I have a few Hardin's seeds, sent to the MMMM by Nan; PM if you'd like to try again and I'll send them your way.

[PaulF]

I would love to have machinery like that, but then I don't know what I would do with it.

My tomato list for the year with the theme being Blacks and Hearts:

Blacks
Bear Creek
Brandywine Black
Black Cherry
Brad's Black Oxheart
Carbon
Cherokee Purple
Black
Black Burgundy
Cherokee Chocolate
Purple Hillbilly
Black form Tula
D.B. Cooper
Aker's West Virginia Black
Indian Dark Violet Beefsteak
Shokoladnoe Chudo
Vorlon
Black Giant
Black Bear
Mavritanskie
Morado Chocolate
PPP X PP C
Cherokee Black
Reinhard's Purple Heart
Amazon Chocolate Indische Fleisch
Morado Cuevas De San Marcos

Hearts

Butter and Bull's Heart
Coeur de Velours
Fish Lake Oxheart
Hungarian Heart
Joe's Pink Oxheart
Lidmill's Pink Heart
Nicky Crain
Old Fashioned Oxheart
Red Butter Heart
Sylvan Guame
Volovie Ukho (Ox Ear)
Wes
Zoe's Big Red
Eagle's Beak
German Red Strawberry
Indiana Red
Kosovo

[Patihum]

Besides these regular OP I'll have 15 different crosses going most with multiple plants.
That's the only reason this list is so short!

R(red) P(pink) D(dark) BC(bicolor) W/Y(white/yellow) GWR (green when ripe)

Big Cheef - D
Costoluto Genovese - R
Coyote - W/Y
Crimson Jack - P
Dwarf Mandurang Moon - W/Y
Dwarf Velvet Night - D
Effie Greek - P
Enza - R
Gallego - R
Grandma Oliver Chocolate - D
Green Gables - GWR
Gold Medal - BC
Green Brooks - R
Greenbush Italian - P
Jungle Salad - R
Moruno Anta - R
Napa Rosé - P
Negrillo de Almoguera - D
Piglet Willie's French Black - D
Rebecca Sebastian's Bull Bag - R
Rinaldo - R
Rosy Falls - P
Top Sirloin (OP) - R

[chadandpia]

After much wringing of hands with so many varieties that I wanted to try this year but a limited amount of space this is now my 2018 list of seedlings started:

Bear Creek
Big Beef x2
Brandy Boy
Dana's Dusky Rose
Dwarf Mr. Snow
Earl's Faux
Filipino #2
Fish Lake Oxheart
GarnetxBlack Krim x2
German Johnson
Great Divide
Karma Pink x2
KBX
Lucky Cross
Nefertiti
Pink Tsar
Polish PL
Rebel Yell
Rostova
Soyuz Eleven

Dwarf Projects:
Steamy F2
Beauty F2
Invalde F2
Emmy F2 x2
Emmy F3 x2 (one is tri-cot)
64x F2 (micro MMFxGoldfinch) tri-cot

(I know that tri-cot probably means nothing BUT it's the first time I've gotten tri-cot leaves when growing my own seedlings so wanted to mention)

Peppers seedlings started:
Sugar Rush Peach
Dragon Roll
Fatalii
Shishi to x2

[rhines81]

30 varieties of peppers sowed already, another 15 varieties to go.
I'll start tomatoes and tomatillos at the end of March, list still forming. I scored some bonus space this year so that list might get big.
Eggplants, 2 varieties, may start them this weekend.
Will start 4 varieties of peas, 2 varieties of spinach and 3 varieties of cabbage this weekend,
All sorts of herbs are started. Pansies have already sprouted.
Other than that - corn, several bean varieties, several melon varieties, pumpkin, cucumber, lettuces, beets, carrots, radishes, okra and various flowers.
I'm sure I left something out.

[menken]

Originally Posted by PaulF

I would love to have machinery like that, but then I don't know what I would do with it.

My tomato list for the year with the theme being Blacks and Hearts:

Blacks
Bear Creek
Brandywine Black
Black Cherry
Brad's Black Oxheart
Carbon
Cherokee Purple
Black
Black Burgundy
Cherokee Chocolate
Purple Hillbilly
Black form Tula
D.B. Cooper
Aker's West Virginia Black
Indian Dark Violet Beefsteak
Shokoladnoe Chudo
Vorlon
Black Giant
Black Bear
Mavritanskie
Morado Chocolate
PPP X PP C
Cherokee Black
Reinhard's Purple Heart
Amazon Chocolate Indische Fleisch
Morado Cuevas De San Marcos

Hearts

Butter and Bull's Heart
Coeur de Velours
Fish Lake Oxheart
Hungarian Heart
Joe's Pink Oxheart
Lidmill's Pink Heart
Nicky Crain
Old Fashioned Oxheart
Red Butter Heart
Sylvan Guame
Volovie Ukho (Ox Ear)
Wes
Zoe's Big Red
Eagle's Beak
German Red Strawberry
Indiana Red
Kosovo

Just curious - is the idea of the themes to be able to compare the best ones for taste, ease of growing or other?

[menken]

A general question for everyone - how do you decide which varieties to plant each year? I'm sure it is different for everyone but it would be interesting to learn.

[2mnyrzs]

I have started all my tomato seeds, beginning January 31 and all through February. I'll plant in the ground mostly and also some pots (dwarf) at the end of March and early April. A bunch of these will be new to me this year, any information you'd like to offer would be greatly appreciated!

New this Year *

Cherry/Grape:

Ambrosia Red
Atomic Grape*
Candy Sweet Icicle*
Cherry Roma
Esterina
Fahrenheit Sweet Red*
Green Doctors Frosted
Green Tiger*
Hardin's Miniature*
Josefina
Little Miss Dixie*
Nectar *
Pink Princess*
Ron's Carbon Copy
Sugar Drop
Sunrise Bumblebee*
Tami G*
Toronjina
Valentine*
Verde Claro

Small/Salad size:

Bulgarian #7*
Bulgarian Triumph
Cascade Lava*
Dirty Girl
Jaune Flamme
Marmande*
Matina*
Maya & Sion's Airdrie Classic*
Moravsky Div
Painted Pink*
Piennolo del Vesuvio
Quedlinburger Frühe Liebe
Salvaterra's Select*
Ten Fingers of Naples*
Trucker's Favorite*

Dwarf:

Aftershock*
Dwarf Awesome*
Dwarf Black Angus*
Dwarf Confetti*
Dwarf Firebird Sweet*
Dwarf Golden Gypsy*
Dwarf Orange Cream*
Dwarf Peppermint*
Dwarf Wild Fred
Fred's Tie Dye*
Summer Sunrise*
Summer Sweet Gold*
Tanunda Red*
Tennessee Suited*

Green:

Cherokee Green
Green Gables
Green Zebra
Spear's Tennessee Green

Black:

BKX*
Carbon
Daniel Burson
Margaret Curtain
Morado Chocolate*
Vorlon

Yellow/Orange/Bicolor:

Azoychka
Jumbo Jim Orange
Jim Dandy
KBX
Little Lucky
Lucid Gem
Northern Lights*
Orange Minsk*
Oxacan Jewel*
Sweet Ozark Orange

Red/Pink Beefsteak:

Big Beef*
Brandywine, Joyce's
Brandywine, Liam's*
Brandywine, Sudduth
Cosmonaut Volkov
Faelan's First Snow*
German Johnson, Benton
GGWT
Mat Su Express
Olena Ukrainian
Our Own Pink
Pink Berkeley Tie Dye*
Solar Flare*
Stump of the World
Weinsicht's Ukrainian*

Oxheart:

Anna Russian*
Grightmire's Pride
Ukrainian Heart

Tomatillo:

Cisineros
Gigante

Marsha's Seed Offer (Thanks Marsha!!!):

Brutus*
Mocha Splash (Not Chocolate Stripes)*
Dwarf Rumplestiltskin*
Garnet*
Iva's Red Berry
Mat Su Express* 11 F7 A*
Moonlight Mile*
Rebel Yell*

[PaulF]

Originally Posted by menken

Just curious - is the idea of the themes to be able to compare the best ones for taste, ease of growing or other?

Mostly just for fun. I've done varieties with the names of relatives, varieties with country names, tomatoes alphabetically, and several other themes.

With hearts (never met a heart I didn't love) it is for flavor and for blacks it is for flavor comparisons.

[nyrfan]

March 15

Tomatoes for rootstock (1)
Beefmaster

Tomatoes for the garden, will be grafted (4)
Aunt Ruby's German Green, Great White, Orange Jazz, Un-labeled gift from Renaissance Farms


April 1

Tomatoes for the garden (14)
Alice's Dream, Big League, Black Krim, Brad Gates, Fáelán's First Snow, Goliath Giant Early Bush, Great White Blues, Gribnoe Lukoshko, Haley's Rainbow, Lucid Gem, Mississippi Queen, Moonlight Mile, Pink Siberian Tiger, Rebel Alliance

Tomatoes for pots I, woolly-leaved (15)

Angora Orange, Elberta Peach, Extravagante Rouffiange, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Kitayskiy Oksamitoviy, Persik, Pride Of Flanders Woolly, Roughwood Golden Tiger, Smoky Mountain, Velvet Red, Woolly Blue Jay, Woolly Blue Wine, Woolly Green Zebra, Woolly Kate Yellow, Yamali Blue

Tomatoes for pots II, micro-dwarf (4)
Florida Petite, Red Robin, Rosy Finch, Yellow Canary

Tomatoes for pots III, other (4)
NSL 187099, Patio Choice Yellow, Potato Leaf Variegated, Variegated

[menken]

Thanks PaulF! That seems like a fun strategy. I would be interested what you end up with in terms of comparisons at the end of the season.
Katie

[pmcgrady]

Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

PCMG- do you want I should send you another pack of Hardin's Mini?

Nan

Thank you! But I have so many seeds, I'm overwhelmed!