Still waiting for the toms in the garden to ripen, which may be another week to ten days at best. But my goal is to not run out of maters for the next 12 months, so I'm starting a second crop.
My first two plants are a Siletz and Legend, both early varieties that are self-pollinating, cool season plants. It's suppose to take 55-75 days after planting to get ripe fruit, but IME it takes the longer amount. Plus, the seedlings are not near as old as they would be if I was going to transplant them into the garden.
The plan is to start about 14 plants, eight each of the two above plus one each of the other types and have them ready by the middle of August. Each week, add two plants until I reach 40 or run out of room - whichever comes first. That will take 13 weeks by which time (nearly 20 weeks from now) the ones I'm starting now should be about done for the season.
Repeat the process until April then quit replacing them as they reach the end of their life, which should be August. By then, I'll have garden ripe ones to use.
Mike
My first two plants are a Siletz and Legend, both early varieties that are self-pollinating, cool season plants. It's suppose to take 55-75 days after planting to get ripe fruit, but IME it takes the longer amount. Plus, the seedlings are not near as old as they would be if I was going to transplant them into the garden.
The plan is to start about 14 plants, eight each of the two above plus one each of the other types and have them ready by the middle of August. Each week, add two plants until I reach 40 or run out of room - whichever comes first. That will take 13 weeks by which time (nearly 20 weeks from now) the ones I'm starting now should be about done for the season.
Repeat the process until April then quit replacing them as they reach the end of their life, which should be August. By then, I'll have garden ripe ones to use.
Mike