April 10 Tomato Update

Almost time to pot up these babies - check out the size of KARMA Pink's potato leaves (middle left) .....

and this one is special to me "Saluteus" hopefully as wonderful as last year - an F4 dwarf and its leaves are also enormous potato leaves (left plant in container on right)

April 9 - Plot 5

Soil has dried out some, and time to plant potatoes ...... my potato choices for this year:

French Long
Island Amber
Prince of Orange
Yukon Gold

March 31 Tomato Update

here are my tomatoe babies - one month old ........

also started some peppers ...... I have no idea why I started so many per cell - I only wanted four plants ...... but here is my sweet pepper list:

Donkey Ears
Zolotistyi
Melrose
Lunch Box Red

also - the wee single tomato on the right "Red Dawn" germinated from 17 year old seed - which made me happy, because it appears to be rather rare these days - one of the first seed I traded for way back when ....  

March 19 - Last Day of Winter

I attempted to dig over Plot 5 - but the soil is still very wet - so no more digging today

I did however find what appears to be an undug hill of potatoes - all of which had started to sprout!!  I did not replant these potatoes as my space is limited and I have new varieties I'd like to trial this year .......

March 1 - Tomato Seeds Sown

Decided to get a somewhat earlier start on my tomatoes this year ......

Always a hard decision to decide what to grow - with so many new seeds to try and continued grow outs to stabilize earlier crosses; here is my Tomato List 2018:

Cherry Roma
Red Dawn
Adelaide Festival
KARMA Pink F7
Dwarf Worry F4
Dwarf Scary F4 (now  "Saluteus")
Heart's Delite Black
Fuego Verde
Girl Girl's Weird Thing (GGWT)
plus two unnamed micro-minis

February 24 - More Snow!!

Just when you think winter is on the way out ......... have a look!!

but there is a wee bit of green to enjoy - micro-mini tomato babies were started on December 28th from my saved seed

February 11 - Overwintered Veggies

A little late in getting started on my 2018 blog ...... but to start us off here's a few pics from Plot 5 taken February 11th

A lovely kale plant overwintered - not sure of variety as I planted a number of varieties ..... also lots of overwintered baby lettuce, some radishes and my garlic chives are making their annual appearance