Posted on 11/08/2013 12:23:38 PM PST by greeneyes
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AND, I grew those carrots and turnips FROM SEED. Me, I did that.
About 1/4 of the space in the main garden will go into tobacco next year.
/johnny
Tycoon (my favorite), lemon boys, and solar fire..The nine footers are a lemon boy, and 2 solar fires. I bought plankets today at Lowe's, but I need to go out and work on my greenhouse door, and skinning it. I'm just not motivated today.
“Tycoon (my favorite), lemon boys, and solar fire”
There is so much I don’t know. Have never heard of those tomatoes. Now, I’ll have to look them up. If they are doing great this time of year, I need to know about them.
GREENEYES: I GOT THE DECK CORN SEED AND BURPEE DEVELOPED THAT SEED AND ONLY THEY HAVE IT. BUY SOME RIGHT NOW BEFORE IT'S GONE. I didn't know such a thing existed last year and when I found it they were out. This seed is really popular so people can grow corn on the cob on a deck. At some point, I read about it and I think it has sex by itself to make the corn. :o)
Anyone wanting that corn seed needs to buy it right now.
I have a question about fingerling potatoes and sweet potatoes. Johnny, I found the bill for the sweet potatoes I have growing and the slips are from Burpee, “Vardaman Sweet Potato”. I see I got them due to their being a “compact type”. I would have gotten those since they are compact and would fit in a container better. It says, “The best sweet potato in our taste test.” As I said, the leaves are dark green.
I didn't order any of those sweet potato slips or “Swedish Peanut Fingerling Potatoes” slips. When do normal people plant those slips? See, I didn't plant anything at the right times because I didn't care, I just wanted to see if I could get seeds to sprout and plant the plant and it would live, so I planted the sweet potato slips in something like July I think which would likely have been wrong. I can't remember if anyone yelled at me then for my unorthodox methods.
So, when do you normal people plant potato and sweet potato slips? I need to order them when it's time but I don't think that time is now, unless I am wrong.
I think I'm done for ordering except for ordering the blackberry plants and those two types of potatoes. I'll get the blackberry plants when that company has them ready to ship.
I'll get some onion seed from Lowes before spring to make a larger onion than the bunching ones (I have the bunching seed ordered) and I'll get herb plants there.
Someone talk to me about potatoes.
/johnny
“Potatoes are good with butter and salt.”
Gee, thanks, I would never have figured that out - duh.
When do I plant them?
I plant for new potatoes (red ones) in spring, and big potatoes in the fall. Those will stay in the garden and cope with the weather until spring. I may or may not dig up any potatoes until I get ready to put in my spring garden.
I'm fairly haphazard about potatoes. Your mileage may vary, batteries not included.
/johnny
There was a suggestion on the Burpee website to split these little potatoes and fry them in a skillet, (with butter of course). Or, cut and roast them which wouldn’t take long.
If you aren’t including the batteries, the deal is off.
/johnny
/johnny
“I’ve used fingerling potatoes in the restaurants. I just wouldn’t ever go to the trouble of growing them for myself. Russets and red potatoes meet all my needs.”
I’m thinking about space - fingerlings in a container or two containers for lots of them makes more sense for me than big potatoes that take larger/deeper containers.
To my knowledge, I’ve never seen a fingerling potato, just pictures.
They're in the grocery store..just in small packages that cost a lot more than regular potatoes.
In my Walmart, they're usually by the tiny plastic boxes of baby reds (also pricey)
Since you’re a voracious reader, here is a short little blurb, and some interesting stuff in their sidebar about tomatoes in TX
http://masterofhort.com/2012/10/2012-tomato-season-wrap-up-by-bill-adams/
I read that, thanks for posting it. I just noticed, Burpee didn’t get the various tomato seed I wanted on my shopping cart list, rats, I’ll have to go back and get them in an order.
It was strange that I clicked to get the Deck Corn and it disappeared off my cart list, then couldn’t find it again, then clicked on another way to do it and found the corn again. Their system must be acting up - guess it’s an Obama screw up on this website as well as his healhcare one.
I see the guy in the article you sent is partial to the Tycoon tomato as his mainstay tomato.
MomwithHope took pity on me and is sending me some Sabre tomato seed and it's a late maturing one that does well with cold. Mom also fell and had to go to doctor and had bruised ribs so been saying prayers for her to feel better fast. When you fall, actually all your muscles tense up and then they all hurt. That's a time for pain pills or alcohol to get the muscles to relax.
One time, a car ran a stop sign and hit the side of the car I was in. My door wouldn't open due to the hit and I had to get out the other side of the car. By the time I got back to the hotel, everything hurt and I got in a tub of hot water to get muscles to relax. Didn't have pain pills or alcohol.
Well, I make this sound like I'm talking about a lot of tomato plants, but I'm not. I figure two/three early and two/three middle and two/three late will do it since they are all indeterminate and hopefully will keep producing. Maybe that will work and maybe it won't. At least I know how to grow them now so I won't screw them up as I have done before.
Next spring, everything I plant will just be perfect. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Thanks for the picture. I have spent this whole day on researching seeds, buying seeds and reading about tomatoes. I haven’t bought any tomato seed yet but I’m close.
At some point, you have to decide what seeds you are going to plant and what you are going to plant them in after you get the seeds to sprout.
This whole planting and growing food is not for the faint of heart - or lazy people.
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