[Red_Devil 232]

Good afternoon JADB and all gardeners. The tomato seeds I started in Mississippi did not survive our move to Texas:( They got set aside and neglected and I couldn't find the seeds I had saved from my Marion and Arkansas Traveler tomatoes from last years garden. My two favorite varieties. I went to Lowe's a week or so ago to buy some wood for my raised beds and they had both varieties in stock as transplants I bought four of each plus another heirloom called "Homestead". They are ready to go into the soil and be on their own. I will have some Homegrown Tomatoes this summer!

[rightly_dividing]

I'm glad that you are still going to have tomatos this year.

We have lots of squash blooms this year and our peppers look good, in contrast to last year when nothing but tomatos were happy.

[greeneyes]

Excellent news Red. My Arkansas traveler seeds did not germinate. I speculate that they got too hot in the sunshine next to the SW patio door. They were covered with a plastic lid which I had propped up a little to allow ventilation. Some one closed it tight. And Hubby lost almost all the heirloom seeds I liked last year.

I had ordered some Arkansas Traveler plants on sale last year at about mid summer, intending to grow them indoors, but they sent me a card that they were back ordered till spring. They just came in last week. I only paid half price, so that was a relief to get some plants.

I haven't heard of homestead. I just received 10 varieties of tomato seeds from winter sown,($5 donation) which I'll try to start indoors. Then I'll save the seeds from the varieties I like best.

Hubby likes the mortgage lifters the best out of what we have grown the last 3 years.