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Adventures in growing six types of tomatoes.

I neglected to label all the seeds as I sowed and with the two slicers, it’s easy to tell because one’s a potato leafed variety, Brandywine. For the four cherry types, I’m starting to figure them out. Had one marked in the garden as Rosella which are global shaped purplish kind of like mini Cherokee purple.

Nope. One tomato started ripening, yellow and they’re oblong shaped. I have two types of yellow but one is yellow pear tomatoes which of course take the shape of a pear so those are easy to ID. These other yellow ones are Barry’s Crazy Cherry. I just counted about 30 maters on on cluster, hence the name Crazy.

Still got Chadwick and Rosella which are both globe shaped but Rosella are 1/2 inch around and Chadwick are 1 inch when ripe so I can sort of tell already.

Something strange.

My slicers were the biggest seedlings, especially the Tappy’s Heritage. All the cherries except for Rosella(I think), are towering over the slicers now and those were tiny seedlings. Tappy’s were a foot tall when planted and the cherries were 3-6 inches. All were planted at the same time.

Slicers are about 4 1/2 foot tall. Both yellow cherries and Chadwick(I think) are 6 foot tall. Others that I think are Rosella are almost 4 foot.

I’ve been shoving those 1/2 inch diameter by 4 foot long fiberglass fence posts in the ground around them to hold them up so far but I can tell I’m going to have to do the tall posts on each end with wire stretched across the top and twine dropping down to suspend the tall ones and do the lean and lower technique because if I can keep them alive for another 2-3 months, they’re going to be 10 foot easily. I planted them too close together to do anything else.

Now that I’m close to eating tomatoes and can pretty much tell what’s what, I’m re-reading the reviews for them. Going to try and get my autist son to try some but I have my doubts. There’s going to be way too many for me to eat or for both of us really. I’ll be giving a lot away. Already gave some plants to one neighbor but I don’t know how well they bounced back from his turkey munching on them when they were still little plants.

Pepper plants just haven’t been growing much but I’m pretty sure it’s the acidic soil here which I’ve never done anything about. They did perk up after I mixed wood ashes with water and watered them with it a couple of weeks ago. One shisito is about a foot tall and has some tiny peppers that just appeared. Gonna have to break down and get a soil test and some lime I guess if I ever want to grow certain things.