Originally I planted 6 pots each of 7 types of tomato. Yeah, it seems like overkill... but last year almost every single seedling I had planted ended up either not sprouting or dying within a couple of weeks. I wanted success this time. Out of those 42 plants, 36 survived!
This year I successfully sprouted the following heirloom tomatoes...
Here's the "before" photo, as they were prepped for transplant and getting hardened off to the elements.
I didn't realize exactly how many tomatoes I had until they were all potted up. I'll probably make a post in a few days about how many tomatoes need to find new homes. Yeah, most of them are pretty leggy... but with tomatoes that's not such a bad problem because you want to plant them as deeply (or horizontally under the soil) as possible so that all the stem turns into a robust root system.
My plan was to get all the garden stuff done this weekend, and this is a really excellent start!
This year I successfully sprouted the following heirloom tomatoes...
- 5 Egg Yolk
- 5 Yoder's German Yellow
- 5 Tigerella
- 6 Black Plum
- 5 Black Krim
- 5 Amish Paste
- 5 Green Zebra
Here's the "before" photo, as they were prepped for transplant and getting hardened off to the elements.
So many tomato possibilities.
I didn't realize exactly how many tomatoes I had until they were all potted up. I'll probably make a post in a few days about how many tomatoes need to find new homes. Yeah, most of them are pretty leggy... but with tomatoes that's not such a bad problem because you want to plant them as deeply (or horizontally under the soil) as possible so that all the stem turns into a robust root system.
My plan was to get all the garden stuff done this weekend, and this is a really excellent start!
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