2015 Grow lists - Is it Time??

[cecilsgarden1958]

Put my seeds in today. A lot easier doing 14 then it was to do 80 or 90.

One each of:

Bonny Best
Supersonic
Buck's County Hybrid
Jetsetter
Jersey Boy
Sweet Tangerine
Bush Big Boy
Super Tasty
Empire
Carolina Gold
Mt. Pride
Bella Rosa

Two:
Sweet Baby Girl

Still have Postherpetic Neuralgia‎ but at least I got them in the tray.

CECIL

[old-oaken]

Here is my grow list for this year:

Seeds Obtained From Others:
0-33
Ananas Noire
Auria
Banana Legs
Catwell
Cherry AM Orange
Domingo
Early Ssubakus Aliana
Gold Ball
Green Zebra
Gruschevij
IPK T 1111 (Republic of Georgia)
Kosovo
Kwangtung 105
Old Brooks
Orange Icicle
Rebecca Sebastian's Bull Bag
Rutgers
Saint Pierre
Silvery Fir Tree
Sun Gold F1 Hybrid
Tlacolula Pink
Transparent
Tuxhorn's Red And Yellow
Variegated
Wapsipinicon Peach

Seeds I Saved From Prior Years:
Big Zac - F9
Dark Galaxy
Guernsey Island
OSU Blue
Ozark Sunset
Pink Furry Boar
Russian Apple Tree
Spot Yellow
Striped Cavern
Tatar of Mongolistan

Plus, a handful of seeds from an unexpected plant from last year's garden. I grew out 5 OSU Blue seeds just for fun. This one did not stay true to form... it was larger, a bit paste-like, and could only muster light antho shoulders. Growing some out this year to see what happens. Here are a photos of unripened fruits from it and one ripened one:

[Gardeneer]

'Is it Time??

sure is. I am planting out already.
I am pushing my season by 40 days over traditional plant out date.
I am a risk taker. That is calculated risk.

Gardeneer

[Salsacharley]

I was going to put up a hoop house back in early March but the weather was so warm and the 15 day forecast never project temps lower than 38 degrees F, so I decided to just plant out without the time, labor and cost of a hoop house, which I did with 105 plants. My average last frost date is April 15, so I planted about 30 days early. All has been going well until today. The dad-gum day after the last average frost date. Tonight the temp is supposed to go down to 31 degrees, and then back up around 40 or so henceforth. I spent all day trying to put up row covers on my 9 rows of plants in 40 mph winds. It was complicated by having the plants attached to 5 ft stakes. I only got about half done when I gave up from exhaustion and frustration with the wind. Now I'm praying for a break. If I can survive tonight all should be well and I'll plant out my remaing 200 plants.

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

'Is it Time??

sure is. I am planting out already.
I am pushing my season by 40 days over traditional plant out date.
I am a risk taker. That is calculated risk.

Gardeneer

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Salsacharley

I was going to put up a hoop house back in early March but the weather was so warm and the 15 day forecast never project temps lower than 38 degrees F, so I decided to just plant out without the time, labor and cost of a hoop house, which I did with 105 plants. My average last frost date is April 15, so I planted about 30 days early. All has been going well until today. The dad-gum day after the last average frost date. Tonight the temp is supposed to go down to 31 degrees, and then back up around 40 or so henceforth. I spent all day trying to put up row covers on my 9 rows of plants in 40 mph winds. It was complicated by having the plants attached to 5 ft stakes. I only got about half done when I gave up from exhaustion and frustration with the wind. Now I'm praying for a break. If I can survive tonight all should be well and I'll plant out my remaing 200 plants.

Good luck, Charley
I hope that you Covered them up real good with anything you can find : Buckets, Cardboard boxes, old bed sheets.. whatever it take.
My plants have been exposed to 36F (lowest) in the past. No problems. But 31F is too low for sure.

Let us know how did it go.

Gardeneer.

[Salsacharley]

46 of my 105 plants had varying degrees of freeze damage last night. Some were totally frozen while others only had some leaf end damage. It is perplexing that plants spaced 2 1/2 to 3 ft apart would have wildly varying damage. There were 2 Michael Pollan plants 2 1/2 ft apart...one was severely damaged and the other was undamaged. It looks like Mr Frost threw darts at my tomato patch. It also didn't seem to matter much whether the plants were covered or not because a few of those under cover were damaged, and many uncovered were unscathed. Go figure.

[kath]

Originally Posted by Salsacharley

46 of my 105 plants had varying degrees of freeze damage last night. Some were totally frozen while others only had some leaf end damage. It is perplexing that plants spaced 2 1/2 to 3 ft apart would have wildly varying damage. There were 2 Michael Pollan plants 2 1/2 ft apart...one was severely damaged and the other was undamaged. It looks like Mr Frost threw darts at my tomato patch. It also didn't seem to matter much whether the plants were covered or not because a few of those under cover were damaged, and many uncovered were unscathed. Go figure.

Really sorry to hear this, Charley. It sounds so much like what happened in my garden in 2010 with many of the "protected" plants being damaged more than the ones out in the open as well as some plants in the same spot under the same kind of cover being killed and others being ok. It was also a last minute change in the weather forecast which had me trying to cover plants in the late afternoon with terrible wind, which died down overnight so that the frost could settle in.

Have you got spares or are you just going to wait for the survivors to revive and sprout new growth?

kath

[efisakov]

Originally Posted by Salsacharley

46 of my 105 plants had varying degrees of freeze damage last night. Some were totally frozen while others only had some leaf end damage. It is perplexing that plants spaced 2 1/2 to 3 ft apart would have wildly varying damage. There were 2 Michael Pollan plants 2 1/2 ft apart...one was severely damaged and the other was undamaged. It looks like Mr Frost threw darts at my tomato patch. It also didn't seem to matter much whether the plants were covered or not because a few of those under cover were damaged, and many uncovered were unscathed. Go figure.

Salsacharley, as long as more than half of plants survived it still was worth it. The once that got some damage, may still recover. They have developed root system that will help them. Have a hope.

[Salsacharley]

Thanks for the condolences. I risked planting early and I got bit. It is infuriating that I made it past the average last frost date and a one day event did almost half my crop in. It goes to show you that the averages can work against as well as with you. I do expect recovery from about 1/2 the damaged plants, and there's hope for a few more. I do have plenty of plants...I'm sitting on 220 more that I need to get into the ground ASAP. My greatest pain is that of the 46 damaged, they are mostly one-of-a-kind for me this year. I guess there are 35 varieties damaged in those 46 plants. I've got over 300 plants this year, and over 240 varieties...so many are one-of-a-kind this year.

[Catherine+twin]

I live on a mountain side, so my ALF date is early/mid May, and I knew it was too soon to plant out. However, I had started hardening plants off last week and had to bring 68 plants back in before the low temps hit. Last night was forecast to be 31F, but was actually 35. My plants might have made it okay, but they were all around the sink in the kitchen instead.

Catherine

[AZGardener]

Gah!! That's horrible SalsaCharley! It's a gamble indeed.... Where are you in NM?

[ContainerTed]

Okay, here's what I have in the works this year. I usually wait till I get thru with the germination phase. I use a lot of older seeds and they can be slow to show sometimes.

Slicers and main source of Juice for canning.

Acme
Admiralteyskoe Serdtse
African Queen
AK Brown
AK GWR
Angora Orange
Atkinson
Belmonte
Blue Cherry
Boondocks
Bulgarian Old Sort (No Name)
Campari
Casino Paste
Connie's Cain
Cowlick's Brandywine
Depp's Pink Firefly
Dinner Plate
Dixie Golden Giant
Dora
Erika d'Australie
Faworyt
George Detsikas Italian Red
German Queen
Golden Ponderosa
Henderson's Pink Ponderosa
Herman's Special
Huge Black
Indian Stripe
Irish Pink
Jeff Davis
Large Red
Lincoln Adams
Lisos Grandes
Maiden's Fire
Maiden's Gold
Matt's Wild Cherry
Mexico
Middle Tennessee Low Acid
Mikhalych
Mr. Stripey
Old Ferry Morse Beefsteak
Palestinian
Purple Haze
Raspberry
Rozalinda
Rozovyi Velikan
Russkaya Dusha
Sakharnyi Pudovichok
Sara's Galapagos Large
Soldacki
Stick
Sun Gold F1 VFNT
Sunset's Red Horizon
Syzranka
Tennessee Suited
Tennessee Sweet
Tennessee Yellow Cherry
Toedebusch Pink
Tommy Toe Red
Tommy Toe Yellow (Large)
Turkish Ayla
Tyazheloves Sibiri
Ukrainka


Hybrids - I always purchase a few large plants to get early tomatoes. I actually got these this morning and they have fruit already set on them. I found some 24-30 inch plants for $2.50 each.

Better Boy
Celebrity
Empire


R&D - Stabilization in progress Taste is Excellent.

African Queen (Not)
Brother Bill's Yellow Volunteer
Cheeky Dwarf 3-32
Cheeky F3 (2-23) Dwarf
Cheeky F3 (7-1) Non Dwarf
Kellogg's West Virginia F4
Loopy Dwarf #1 (F4)
Loopy F4 (1-21) Red Dwarf
Loopy F4 (7-25) Indet. Non Dwarf
Loopy Stripe (F4)
(NARX (F3) X Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye) F5
(SpudGiant (F2) X Berkeley Tie-Dye) F5
(SpudGiant (F2) X Goose Creek (F1)) F5
Sun Gold Volunteer (F6)
Tidy (No Stripes) F6
Tidy (No Stripes) F5
Uluru Ochre F7


Misc Others in Work - Nearing stabilizaion and release. Superb Taste

Red Plum Shape Cherry (F4)
Pink 10-16 oz Beefsteak (F4)
Pink 8 oz Beefsteak (F5)


Probably will be ready for release in the fall

Maiden's Pride - Red, Reg. Leaf, Indet, 8-12 oz oblate Beefsteak. Great taste. I sent some of these to Tville member "Geza", and his wife loved it so much that she told himt it was the only one he really needed to grow. Geza grows 100's of varieties every year.

[Fred Hempel]

Who is the Maiden?

[Salsacharley]

I'm in Albuquerque.

Originally Posted by AZGardener

Gah!! That's horrible SalsaCharley! It's a gamble indeed.... Where are you in NM?

[ContainerTed]

Originally Posted by Fred Hempel

Who is the Maiden?

That would be my last name. My identity is no secret.