August 2012 Treats |
Today I’m starting tomato and pepper plants in cell trays,
48 cells in all including a few plants each of several varieties of
tomatoes. I’ll start a few more in a
week or so, but at the moment, that will be all the plants my small planting
area can handle. My favorites for
snacking straight off the vines are
those sugar-sweet SunGold hybrids, which produced up to about 300
one-inch morsels per plant last year. The
best of the large slicers was West Virginia Sweetmeat, an heirloom
variety I obtained from fellow blog contributor Mike Kiessel a couple years
ago. He gave me a two-pound tomato from
which I saved the seed—a great thing to share.
How dismal to see snow and hear birds chirping at the same time! Great blog, and I have to say my West Virginia Sweetmeat tomatoes are doing very well. Planted in seed flats on March 29, and transferred to 38-cell trays April 14.
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