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torquillI sowed tomatoes tonight... a little late, but they should be ready by the middle of April if all goes well. Plenty of time.
I'm doing almost all classics this year, due to limited bed space:
Baylor Paste
Black Krim
Dwarf Wild Fred (new to me)
Earl's Faux
KBX
Legend
Vorlon
and a Husky Cherry plant I picked up at the hardware store. I've heard good things about Husky, which is a dwarf. I think I can handle the amount of cherries a dwarf might crank out.
Baylor Paste and Legend are ones I tried last year, and both of them impressed me greatly with their ability to keep cranking out good tomatoes until frost. Legend is supposedly a semi-determinate, but it took over half the bed last year; this time I'll give it the room it deserves.
Wild Fred is my dwarf slicer to try this year... it's one of the new dwarfs produced by the double-hemisphere breeding project. It'll go in one of the pots.
KBX is like an improved Kellogg's Breakfast -- I've grown it before, and it has all the vigor of its parent with the added plus of potato-leaf foliage. The fruit is just about identical. With Earl's, Black Krim, and Vorlon, I should be set for reliable beefsteaks.
Also starting now: basil, cosmos, and a blue wildflower that cropped up last year that I quite liked. Some of the sweet potato slips I overwintered in the greenhouse survived, so they're well on their way. Big seeds (squash, cukes, beans, okra) will wait until I've got the beds prepped, because they'll go faster. I've given up on starting peppers, so I'll be buying those.
Ready or not...
I'm doing almost all classics this year, due to limited bed space:
Baylor Paste
Black Krim
Dwarf Wild Fred (new to me)
Earl's Faux
KBX
Legend
Vorlon
and a Husky Cherry plant I picked up at the hardware store. I've heard good things about Husky, which is a dwarf. I think I can handle the amount of cherries a dwarf might crank out.
Baylor Paste and Legend are ones I tried last year, and both of them impressed me greatly with their ability to keep cranking out good tomatoes until frost. Legend is supposedly a semi-determinate, but it took over half the bed last year; this time I'll give it the room it deserves.
Wild Fred is my dwarf slicer to try this year... it's one of the new dwarfs produced by the double-hemisphere breeding project. It'll go in one of the pots.
KBX is like an improved Kellogg's Breakfast -- I've grown it before, and it has all the vigor of its parent with the added plus of potato-leaf foliage. The fruit is just about identical. With Earl's, Black Krim, and Vorlon, I should be set for reliable beefsteaks.
Also starting now: basil, cosmos, and a blue wildflower that cropped up last year that I quite liked. Some of the sweet potato slips I overwintered in the greenhouse survived, so they're well on their way. Big seeds (squash, cukes, beans, okra) will wait until I've got the beds prepped, because they'll go faster. I've given up on starting peppers, so I'll be buying those.
Ready or not...
