Planting Tomatoes Planted
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naturallysweet
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Jealous. My safe planting day isn't until mid-may
nomifyle
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I've got plants in the ground. big boy, better boy, a grape and a cherry at least 18 plants in all. Waiting on creole to sprout. also got cucumber, okra, green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, eggplant and sunflower in the ground. All were plants except for the sunflowers, broad sowed them. We've had steady rain for hours and hours, I checked on the plants this afternoon and they look great.
Judy
Judy
greenhart
Veteran Member
These were sowed in my garden shed, my plant out date is after April 20.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
I've never heard of these varieties before, can you tell us more about them, are they for canning, table eating, etc.?
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Same here, but I expect summer to arrive early this year.
DANG---I usually pick my first tomato the last week of May
my goal is to have a fresh tomato by Memorial Day
I just finished most of my garden planting yesterday--Friday
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Where are you that you can have tomatoes that early!
Just a little south of Maconga--middle GA
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
too humid for this old goat!
air you can wear
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Yep, my lungs don't like that kind of air.
greenhart
Veteran Member
It took me a while to find a description of the Pleasure of Paradise. go here !!! ⋆ Tomato Description Paradise Delight IIIII ⋆ ✓ Farmer is about the only thing I can find.
Here are the others...
Aker’s West Virginia
Copyrighted © photo courtesy of TomatoFest Heirloom Tomato Seeds
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Purple Dog Creek tomPDC
Purple Dog Creek (copied) is a very rare family heirloom from the small community of Dog Creek near Munfordville Kentucky. I say it's very rare because very few have seeds for it outside of Dog Creek. The tomatoes were served as part of a "thank you" outside dinner served to a WV preacher and members of his congregation. They went to Dog Creek to do home improvements for the low income elderly of the area. The preacher liked the tomatoes so much he asked if anyone had seeds for them. One of the guys at the supper had grown and brought them. He went home and brought the preacher back some seeds. One of my friends in Martinsburg WV is a member of the preachers church. They got to talking about the trip to Dog Creek and the preacher offered some seeds to my friend. He grew them and loved them. He sent me some last year and I grew them this year. They are dark pink less than 1 pound although I've heard they grow to 18 oz. They are very good. Strong plant and fairly productive
Lehrertomate Organic Tomato Seeds - "Teacher Tomato"
This rare German variety yields huge, beefsteak-type slicers that are absolutely delicious. The fruit are meaty, with few seeds, and are slightly ribbed. We grew only 12 plants this year and harvested nearly 170 pounds. Numerous fruit weighed over 1.5 pounds, with the largest reaching 2.3 pounds. We will continue to grow this wonderful variety in the coming years, but our seed supply is limited this year.
66 Days, Open-Pollinated, Indeterminate
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
It took me a while to find a description of the Pleasure of Paradise. go here !!! ⋆ Tomato Description Paradise Delight IIIII ⋆ ✓ Farmer is about the only thing I can find.
Here are the others...
Aker’s West Virginia
A family heirloom tomato of Carl Aker of Pennsylvania. Originally from West Virginia. These organic tomato seeds produce a vigorous highly productive, regular leaf, heirloom tomato plant that yields an excellent set of large, 10 to 16-ounce, deep-red, slightly flattened tomatoes in clusters of 2. Fruits show little or no cracking and have a well balanced sweetness to acidity. Delicious, robust flavors.
Copyrighted © photo courtesy of TomatoFest Heirloom Tomato Seeds
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Purple Dog Creek tomPDC
Purple Dog Creek (copied) is a very rare family heirloom from the small community of Dog Creek near Munfordville Kentucky. I say it's very rare because very few have seeds for it outside of Dog Creek. The tomatoes were served as part of a "thank you" outside dinner served to a WV preacher and members of his congregation. They went to Dog Creek to do home improvements for the low income elderly of the area. The preacher liked the tomatoes so much he asked if anyone had seeds for them. One of the guys at the supper had grown and brought them. He went home and brought the preacher back some seeds. One of my friends in Martinsburg WV is a member of the preachers church. They got to talking about the trip to Dog Creek and the preacher offered some seeds to my friend. He grew them and loved them. He sent me some last year and I grew them this year. They are dark pink less than 1 pound although I've heard they grow to 18 oz. They are very good. Strong plant and fairly productive
Lehrertomate Organic Tomato Seeds - "Teacher Tomato"
This rare German variety yields huge, beefsteak-type slicers that are absolutely delicious. The fruit are meaty, with few seeds, and are slightly ribbed. We grew only 12 plants this year and harvested nearly 170 pounds. Numerous fruit weighed over 1.5 pounds, with the largest reaching 2.3 pounds. We will continue to grow this wonderful variety in the coming years, but our seed supply is limited this year.
66 Days, Open-Pollinated, Indeterminate
Thank you!
Around Feb in N. Alabama, my granddaddy used to take a large washtub filled with dirt and sow the tomato plants in there and each night cover them with plastic. Trick was you HAD to be up before the sun hit them and remove the plastic (or the plants fried). Always on east side of house and have noooo idea how container drained. Could have been rusted out for all I know. Worked and worked well. Until that year he decided to experiment with yellow tomatoes and no one would touch them. Of course that had nothing to do with the growing method.
not sure how he kept different varieties separated. Or even if he did. We just chunked them in the garden and cussed ‘em when the weather got super hot. But canned tomatoes we had. And to my recollection there was no cussing when we scarfed them down.
not sure how he kept different varieties separated. Or even if he did. We just chunked them in the garden and cussed ‘em when the weather got super hot. But canned tomatoes we had. And to my recollection there was no cussing when we scarfed them down.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Sherrynboo
Veteran Member
Amen to that! How far are you from Columbus Murt? We should get together.
I planted 4 Rutgers, 4 Celebrity, 4 Early Girls and a bunch of peppers. I still have 6 Big Boys to get in the ground today. My green beans are coming up. I still need to get some cukes and squash planted today if I can beat the rain.
Just outside of Macon
PJM
Contributing Member
Maybe that’s why I have stayed with them, always a favourite one with most gardeners. And they are the most popular.
PJM
Contributing Member
Royal Chico I did see at Seedy Saturday. I will have to look at the member list. Thanks.