On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:10:51 -0600, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Tom Gardner wrote:
On 2/23/2015 3:50 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
Since we have a few serious tomato growers here, you may want to know
that it's seed-buying time at Rutgers for classic New Jersey
tomatoes: http://njfarmfresh.rutgers.edu/JerseyTomato.html

These are F1 hybrids and you won't find them in seed stores. I've
grown the Ramapos, and they're excellent. Cambell's 146 (KC146) is
the one you ate in Cambell's tomato soup as a kid. It's claimed to
have excellent flavor as a table tomato, too.

'Time to start digging the garden...well, as soon as the snow melts.



And then the newly developed permafrost! And for some reason there
seems to be hundreds of frozen Tootsi-Rolls scattered in the gardens.

That's a little late for some of us ... I've got almost 50 tomato
seedlings , planted back on Jan 24th . Some are over 6" tall now , in a
couple more weeks they'll go out into the hotbox/greenhouse I'm building
onto the side of the house . The plan is to get a good headstart , by last
frost in mid-April I'll have plants a foot tall and hardened off .
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Limited space and new at this, but started 4 tomato plants
15 Dec. hydroponically. The two Belgian giants are now
over 31" tall, the Carbon black over 18" and the Costoluto
Genovese (heirloom Italian) about 16". White hab and Thai
peppers are also doing well.


--
Unka' George

"Gold is the money of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves"

-Norm Franz, "Money and Wealth in the New Millenium"