Yeah I also didn’t realize they were thee commercial variety back in the day for sauce/soup companies. The thick skins don’t matter for a paste tomato and probably helped with shipping and keeping qualities.
All I know is I consider Menard’s the same way I think of Walmart and the Dollar Store. Not great quality. Were they brand name seeds or something only found at Menard’s?
The Golden Jubilee plants fruiting now (and for the last 2 weeks) were originally in 4” “Bonnies” pots, then transplanted into the better drained side of the garden. I also have a few Golden Jubilee plants growing from seed I collected from last year’s plants, but they are not yet fruiting yet (and in this heat, may not flower well...)
A lot of things can cause small fruits, but the Cherry tomatoes seem unaffected. I guess I’ll see what happens when the Better Boys and the Mortgage Lifters try to fruit... The BB’s got a late start (in soil) where some other plants drowned early on, and, the ML’s are slow to fruit anyway - I don’t expect the ML’s to flower until the end of this month.
Another surprise is an Opo coming up in a starter pot, one of several I’d set aside as failed, 2 months ago. It’s awfully late to expect it to develop fast enough to fruit B4 frost, but, I guess I’ll give it a shot.
I’d agree about Menards being a sort of different flavor of Wal-Mart, but, I’d still have to put both ahead of Dollar Stores. Rural King, OTOH, is a weird mix of cheapo stuff and pricey stuff - hard to categorize... ;-)
The Golden Jubilee plants fruiting now (and for the last 2 weeks) were originally in 4” “Bonnies” pots, then transplanted into the better drained side of the garden. I also have a few Golden Jubilee plants growing from seed I collected from last year’s plants, but they are not yet fruiting yet (and in this heat, may not flower well...)
A lot of things can cause small fruits, but the Cherry tomatoes seem unaffected. I guess I’ll see what happens when the Better Boys and the Mortgage Lifters try to fruit... The BB’s got a late start (in soil) where some other plants drowned early on, and, the ML’s are slow to fruit anyway - I don’t expect the ML’s to flower until the end of this month.
Another surprise is an Opo coming up in a starter pot, one of several I’d set aside as failed, 2 months ago. It’s awfully late to expect it to develop fast enough to fruit B4 frost, but, I guess I’ll give it a shot.
I’d agree about Menards being a sort of different flavor of Wal-Mart, but, I’d still have to put both ahead of Dollar Stores. Rural King, OTOH, is a weird mix of cheapo stuff and pricey stuff - hard to categorize... ;-)
Gawd it’s hot out there.
I see loads of male squash flowers plus a few new females but the plants all need water which I just came back from getting. Then I ought to get some patty pan squash soon.
Once the sun goes away, I’ll do the transfer to tunnel tank and then water for 45 minutes and take the truck tank out of the truck so it can be a second tunnel tank. Then drag the utility tank up by the house that needs cleaned into the back of the truck so I can drive it with cleaner sloshing around in it for a week. That will be the truck tank for the foreseeable future. I need to buy four more but there’s no rush. I also need to either find some pallets to stack up or better yet, make a stand the same height as truck bed floor so I can drag the truck tank out of the truck in between water runs. The tank is back there 24/7 right now.
Just another two months until it starts cooling off.