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Tomatoes - Sowed some today

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Eight hundred seventy-two. One at a time, though still in a "group" method, that is, in one tray.

The breakdown:
Beefsteak: 144
Red Delicious: 127
Red Zebra: 94
Roma: 113
Green Sausage: 128
Riesentraube: 126
Golden Monarch: 42
Tomatillo Verde: 98

No significance to the number, it's how many seeds were in a package or two. The only disappointment was the Monarch, there were suppose to be a minimum of 25 seeds per package and all the others had 50 or more.

Not counting strawberries, lettuce and basil, all whose seeds are too small to count, the total seeds sown so far is 1556. I still have some Azaleas, Giant Cockscomb, Cantaloupe, Green Beans and cucumbers to go yet.

Tomorrow is another transplant day. Hoping to have about 260 plants to move to a larger home.

Mike
 
good going Mike...hope you get a great germination percent...

looks like you are going to be busy today trying to transplant that many plants..make sure you have something soft to stand on while transplanting...
 
AJ,

It shouldn't take too long. Last night, I added all the potting soil to the cells last night and let them soak in water. This afternoon, I'll use a knife handle to make a slit in the soil, stick the plant in it and tamp the soil down. Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to transplant them all.

It's also the week to water the overwintered plants - probably the last time before waking them up. Plus, water all the other plants that are already in 2" or 3" containers.

Mike
 
yup, sounds like you are prepared and have done all the dirty work (pun intended) so it shouldn't take long as you say..

sunday is an all day affair with the plants...my meditation for the week...been meditatin' for about 4 hrs already.... :lol:
 
Right on schedule, some Red Delicious, Beefsteak, Red Zebra and Roma tomatoes poked through the soil. Three days to germinate isn't bad. Still waiting for the Green Sausage, Riesentraube, Verde Tomatillo and Golden Monarch.

Transplanted another 18 Bhuts and sowed some Godetia Double Azaleas and Indiana Giant Cockscomb last night. The only things left to sow are the Cantaloupes and Sikkim cucumbers. Plus, I'm about 1/4 of the way through transplanting.

Mike
 
this is such an exciting thread. I see burpee has some heirlooms in packets and menards has a discount over pack price so I bought and sowed mortage lifter and bloody butcher, along with 4 kinds of herbs. When it was done I looked around and thought I would take my pathos and try to get new plants out of that. My dog is looking at me funny and my kids wonder why I cleaned the kitchen and an hour later everything has dirt dust over it.
 
chicagofire said:
this is such an exciting thread. I see burpee has some heirlooms in packets and menards has a discount over pack price so I bought and sowed mortage lifter and bloody butcher, along with 4 kinds of herbs. When it was done I looked around and thought I would take my pathos and try to get new plants out of that. My dog is looking at me funny and my kids wonder why I cleaned the kitchen and an hour later everything has dirt dust over it.
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Dog's probably thinking, "Hey, when I dig in the dirt like that I get in trouble!"

The Mortgage Lifter's are really nice, you'll enjoy eating them.
 
The first Green Sausage, Riesentraube and Golden Monarch were up by this morning as well as hundreds of other sprouts. So were the Azaleas and Giant Cockscomb that were sowed Tuesday night. I had no idea the Azaleas germinated so well. The seeds were microscopic and I realize I get way too many in the tray. Looks like there may be a couple hundred seedlings.

Mike
 
wow where did you get the azelea seeds and are they the cold hardy kind? I would love to try those as well. For me some surprises with sowing this year is that some seeds are really like dust. There is no real way to put them in any sort of space relation, I just sort of scattered them.
I'll prolly end up with blobs of them in clumps
 
Chicago,

Actually, they were free. I couldn't find any sweet banana peppers from the place I buy all my seeds from, so I ordered them from Ed Hume seeds. He sent the Azaleas as a free gift.

And yeah, the seeds about about the size of dust or tobacco seeds. Suppose to be about 600 seeds in a packet, I should have paid more attention to how much of it I was using. But I figured the germ rate must be really, really low, otherwise why include so many seeds.

I'm not complaining, I was looking for some shorter plants (these are suppose to only grow to 18" or so) and I had room, so I figured - what the heck, sow some.

Mike
 
AmericanHwyFlower said:
We've got a kitchen area full of peat pots germinating for our salsa garden and others for our stirfry garden!
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So what all are you growing for stir fry? that sounds like a good idea.
 
I need to petition Congress to change the rules so we move the clock BACK an hour tomorrow - I need to transplant 288 seedlings tomorrow - more if I can find room for them. I'll be out of space until I hang some lights. All of them are tomatoes at this point, but I would like to transplant some basil and azaleas also.

Mike
 
ExtremeBurn said:
Garden fresh salsa is the best!
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I have jalapenos and Tomatillos growing and will add some onion sets in a week or two - as soon as they start stocking them. My Green Sausage toms are perfect for salsa.

Mike
 
I'm off to a great start! Got the first 144 transplanted - took a bit over an hour but I had to add some bulbs, clean off some of the platform and find out why a cat sounded like she was stuck in a tree.

Found out I have room for two more trays (72 - 144 more plants) than I thought I would, discovered I now have five Red Angel Trumpets and two Daturas up (yesterday morning, I had only one Datura!)

This is fun!

Mike
 
It sounds great!

I'm wallowing in a wealth of sunshine, and the house is open to the warm breezes. Whoosh! Out with winter, in with spring!
 
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