I’ve gotten to the point where my seedlings have become a bit unmanageable. The tomatoes are all mixed up, I only know the variety for sure of 9 of them.
Back when I was in the seed business and never lacked for any, there would be years when I’d just plant it all and let God sort it out, LOL!
I wish I could grow the David Austin Roses! I did find a ‘Therese Bugnet’ rose at Walmart (bare root) for $8.97 last week, so that was a big SCORE! Hoping to get her in the ground, today. Beau & Emma Jolene went hunting last night, so he won’t be up for a while, yet.
I was always very careful to make sure people weren’t disappointed with plants, trees and shrubs that they bought at Jung’s and KNEW what was going to thrive in our Zone and what wouldn’t.
Always got a chuckle out of ‘garden newbies’ and the FIRST seed packet they’d go for were Blue Himalayan Poppies which are near impossible for anyone to grow. ;)
I have a few questionable cherry tomato varieties as well. Out of four varieties seeded, the ones I’m unsure of are a matter of either this or that. One of two possibilities. I’ll know when they turn a certain color or in the case of Yellow Pear, grow a certain shape. I think one is closer to a grape size too so that will be an indicator while still green.
I only started two slicer types and Brandywine is a potato leafed variety while Tappy’s is not so that’s no problem.
The Tappy’s are huge and the leaves are nice and green. Brandywine not so much so I’ll be doing Tappy’s again next year. Will decide on Brandywine later.
Some of the cherries are doing a little better than others and Chadwick(I think) is doing the best. And here I thought a tomato is a tomato.
Shisito peppers and Brandywine maters have yellowish leaves. Tried adding nitrogen to one of each with no change to the Shisito and made the Brandywine worse. Spending the day outside in the sun helped a little but not much. Everything gets watered about the same.
I had to bring the plants in today because the wind is gusting over 40mph. They were out there for 48 hours prior and got rain one night. Kind of a hard hardening off but everything did well. 62-82 degrees so I figured why not.
I’ve gotten to the point where my seedlings have become a bit unmanageable. The tomatoes are all mixed up, I only know the variety for sure of 9 of them.>>> I still get some mixed up but i bought these plastic tags from gurneys i think. They are for computer printer. i don’t have a laser printer so i just use a marker. I put them on the bottom of the peat pots and when i plant them the tags go around the plant. I thot i planted a bunch of jet star tomatoes but i can only find 2 or three. The burpee seeds had troubles germinating this year so i kept putting other seeds in the pots until they got going. The tags are a little busy as a result.