Friday, June 7, 2013


Got all the tomatoes in their places



I've got some extra seedlings for sale too




Some of those other seedlings will get moved around as I finish up the details. I've still got to get the trellises up, some of these plants are going to be Monsters, I've also got some decorative climbing beans and morning glories.

If all goes to plan there should be some shade for the porch windows in august, and beans too!


Friday, May 31, 2013


The store bought plants before they went in the ground:


 And most of the seedlings waiting for that last frost:


I've got this sandy driveway to work with:


It's got great sun.

I've also got all these seedlings (pic from May 1), planted late but looking good now:


I had to wrap the store bought plants 3 times for about 9 days, the frost guard stuff has already paid for itself.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Time to Maturity from About June 1st

  1. 55 Days Beliy Naliv
  2. 55 Days Bloody Butcher
  3. 58 Days Manitoba
  4. 64 Days Black Cherry
  5. 67 Days Isis Candy Cherry
  6. 70 Days Anna Russian
  7. 70 Days Black Prince
  8. 70 Days Crimean Rose
  9. 70 Days Flamme
  10. 70 Days Matts Wild Cherry
  11. 71 Days Amys Sugar Gem
  12. 72 Days Sunsets Red Horizon
  13. 75 Days Carmello
  14. 75 Days Dona
  15. 75 Days Gary Ibsons Gold
  16. 75 Days Grandpas Minnesota 
  17. 78 Days All Meat
  18. 78 Days Julia Child
  19. 78 Days Piccolo
  20. 78 Days Wapsipinicon Peach
  21. 79 Days Aunt Ginnys Purple
  22. 80 Days Cherokee Purple
  23. 80 Days Tondino di Maduria
  24. 82 Days Mortgage Lifter
  25. 85 Days Italian Tree
  26. Plus whatever others I bought at the Big Box Store are about 25-35 days earlier than the plants from seed.
  27.  62 Days Sun Sugar 
  28.  62 Days Tami G Grape
  29.  65 Days Black Cherry 
  30.  65 Days Husky Cherry Red
  31.  65 Days Super Sweet 100
  32.  70 - 90 Days Mortgage Lifter Heirloom
  33.  70 Days Patio

Last year things were too close together. They were looking good for a while:


(the only light was where they were) they died from fungus that spread plant to plant late in the season after a short cool spell caused the fungus to take over on a unseen dead branch...


This year things are Much more spread out... but I got more plants too..

What will happen? Let's see!!