A Little Back Tracking

Thought I should include a picture of the babies first day of hardening off. This was taken on May 11th. Notice the various leaf shapes - the potato leaf ones really stand out.

Boy, with this winter weather, hard to believe we are well into June. Thank goodness for the few days of good tomtoes growing weather a while back, it seems to have jump started my tomatoes - all of which were transplanted into five gallon pots in mid-May.

Some pictures - Sylvan Guame (bottom pic) - these two I purchased at our local Van Dusen plant sale - like I really needed more tomatoes, but just couldn't resist, as they are supposed to be some of the best tasting out there - blooms already started on these two. Note the droopy plant appearance - commom with heart shaped varieties.

Also there is Grub's Mystery Green (top pic), a fairly new introduction, discovered by Grub - a tomato grower in Australia - some variations still - but I'm hoping this is the early large green with outstanding taste. Potato leaf greens are still fairly rare.

Time to start providing some support for these babies. I am rather surprised how advanced my plants are, what with this winter weather, but I do know growing in pots does advance my season by a few weeks.

Shtambovy Kartofelnolistny 164

Here's a pic of my favourite seedling - got this one from USDA - potato leaf plant - should be bush type

Some to Watch

Could be some interesting results with this cross. Notice the different leaf forms in the F2 plants. These are the Sungold x Mom's seedlings.

Mom's is a regular leaf plant with a high yield of 6-12 oz, yellow fruit with red marbling, outstanding flavor, and Sungold is an early indet. regular leaf cherry; a favourite of many with its golden fruit clusters.

Spring 2008 Seedlings

Well, here we are back at the start - start of the growing season that is. And another round of tomatoes to trial this year.

Majority of seedlings started mid-March, transplanted into 8 oz. cups mid-April.

GREEN
Grub’s Mystery Green (PL)
Galina x Grub's Mystery Green F1 (PL)

GOLD/ETC
Gold Dust
Aunt Gertie’s Gold (PL)
Sungold X Mom’s F2
Galina (PL)

PINK
Hunt Family Favorite
Grushovka
Shtambovy Kartofelnolistny 164 (PL)

BLACK
Not Berkeley Tie Dye Heart
PP x PPP F2 94-64 (PL)
Black Prince X Cherokee Purple F2

RED
New Yorker
Persey
Levino
Kits Find

Some of my more colourful ones, definitely not a great tomato year here in the PNW, not even enough to share!!

Salmon's PL Black (yum) on top and Pertsevidnyi Polosatyi (seed trade from Belarus) on bottom.

First Pick

Well, a month since my last post! Anyhoo, here is my first pick of the summer ...... Mano, Persey, Sophie's Choice and some 42-day cherries :-)