Garden Thread 2024

[Joseph]

I just ordered some seeds for this year. I primarily grow tomatoes and peppers. I have been growing lettuce and spinach in my greenhouse and I am looking forward to getting started on spring/summer vegetables.
I will probably wait 4-6 weeks before getting started.

 

[rswangz]

Home grown tomaters are the best. What varieties? I always plant Big Beef, Brandy Boy, Super Sweet 100, and Sun Sugar, along with a few new varieties. I tried Momotaro last year and was impressed, probably make room for it again this year.

 

[mpollan1]

I use containers and have a modest lean-to greenhouse. As such, I started 12 tomato seeds on 1/21 and have 12 seedlings nearing 2" tall already. Can't wait for some garden tomatoes. I have not had a tomato since I last harvested in September. I'll also grow peppers and cucumbers.

 

[Growler215]

The only thing I start this early is onions (from seed).

Oh, and I bought a couple of sweet potatoes before Christmas; I just leave them sit in a wire basket until they produce slips.

 

[lawrencewendall]

Technically this is 2023 horseradish harvest but I didn't get it out of the ground until last week due to the snow and cold weather.

 

[adit]

Technically this is 2023 horseradish harvest but I didn't get it out of the ground until last week due to the snow and cold weather.

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How did you start it? Grocery store root?

 

[pbharvey]

I highly recommend Celebrity tomatoes as a good overall slicer. Vibrant red with very few blemishes, low acid and great taste. It will be a staple in my garden going forward.

 

[foodpoison]

I highly recommend Celebrity tomatoes as a good overall slicer. Vibrant red with very few blemishes, low acid and great taste. It will be a staple in my garden going forward.

That is a determent correct? Thanks for the tip I will give a few plants a shot

 

[F-Stop]

The last two years I used a foot warmer pad with a temp probe and switch to keep soil just right for seeds. Worked great for starting peppers. I had issues in past with the hots.


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[pbharvey]

That is a determent correct? Thanks for the tip I will give a few plants a shot

Correct. I bought plants from Valley View Farms and they really did well. I went there to get some mortgage lifters and grabbed a few celebrity plants on a whim. I really didn't know anything about them but they were great. Mortgage lifters are a fun tomato to grow. They are huge.

Mortgage Lifter

Celebrity

 

[Joseph]

I highly recommend Celebrity tomatoes as a good overall slicer. Vibrant red with very few blemishes, low acid and great taste. It will be a staple in my garden going forward.

I agree. They seem to perform well in my garden. I would also recommend Early Girl.
They are both very disease resistant.

 

[ToBeFree]

Starting a group of herbs this weekend just to have around. I got the ok from Park and Planning (my wife). Two tomatoes that I have very good luck with are Better Boy and Rutgers. I got a couple of seed heating mats and never looked back. Day and night difference in germination times.

 

[DaveP]

I know it's the 2024 thread, but my fall 2023
collards and mustard greens keep on keeping on...

 

[ChannelCat]

I highly recommend Celebrity tomatoes as a good overall slicer. Vibrant red with very few blemishes, low acid and great taste. It will be a staple in my garden going forward.

Just put in a seed order, including some Celebrity tomatoes. I also bought Habanada Pepper, Tricked You Hybrid Pepper, Purple Beauty Pepper, and Husky Cherry Red Hybrid Tomato. I will be starting these along with sun sugar tomatoes, and I will be buying a couple hot jalapeños and red & yellow sweet peppers.

I'm longing for the day in five months or so when I am on my deck eating a steak and looking at my jungle as a hummingbird stops by to nectar on tomato flowers.

 

[wilcam47]

whats a good sauce tomato? We been using roma

 

[lawrencewendall]

How did you start it? Grocery store root?

Started with 4 roots bought online from ebay (CZECHOSLOVAKIAN) in 2016. Gave away 8 sprouts several years ago and this year re-planted 18 sprouts.

 

[foodpoison]

whats a good sauce tomato? We been using roma

I have had been growing burpey supper sauce the last 2 years with success. This year gonna replace most Roma with them

 

[wilcam47]

I have had been growing burpey supper sauce the last 2 years with success. This year gonna replace most Roma with them

might be worth a try, we want more sauce this year. We are out of garden sauce.

 

[Archeryrob]

Amish paste are like Roma but slightly larger as an option also.

 

[Trekker]

So, where do you all recommend buying seeds?

In years past I bought seedlings from the local farmers market, but this last year the price of seedlings was up to ~$4-5 per plant. Given how many randomly distributed seedlings show up later (~may) from prior year fallen tomatoes, I decided to go cheap/easy and use the wild seedlings. The wild seedlings all ended up being varieties of cherry tomatoes (gold, red round, red elongated), and none of the prior year's (early girl, cherokee purple).