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Finally (May 21, took some time to get my act together...and the seedlings in the driveway cleared out sufficiently to make room), I made my selections and planted my "big driveway pots". Following - tomatoes and rationale.
Mexico Midget - Sue would kill me if I didn't plant this one in the driveway every year! Plus, omelets, frittatas, pizzas, and salads wouldn't be the same without a handful of them included.
Speckled Roman - love it for the productivity, flavor and the stripes - and for fresh seed.
Yellow Brandywine - it's been quite some time, so for fresh seed, also to compare with Aunt Gertie's Gold head to head
Cherokee Purple - of course; using JSS seed source to see if they've maintained it wee
Nepal - need fresh seed desperately; can link it back to the first time I grew it and loved it in 1988.
Cherokee Chocolate - of course
Tiger Tom - need fresh seed desperately, and for a tasty early salad tomato with bite
Cherokee Green - testing the JSS release against my expectations
Caitlin's Lucky Stripe - a recent selection from Little Lucky....will it be true to what I selected?
Sungold - of course, and another cause for Sue murdering me if it isn't in the driveway. Problem is she eats them before I can get to them!
Green Doctor - from Victory, hoping it to be a nice indeterminate green cherry (something that Green Grape for me is not)
Orange Strawberry - it's been years, fresh seed badly needed, wanting to see how it does in a large pot. Loved it the only year I grew it.
Berkeley Tie Dye - for fresh seed, and a fair evaluation.
Lucky Cross - of course
Buckeye State - from Victory - want to compare it to the Livingston description
Lillian's Yellow Heirloom - of course; can never get enough seed to satisfy my needs!
Aunt Gertie's Gold - to compare with Yellow Brandywine, for fresh seed and to test the hype level
Pink Berkeley Tie Dye- same reason as BTD
Trees Bottom Yellow - for fresh seed, to test it out, and compare - is it like LYH or YB in color?
Large Lucky Red - recent selection from Lucky Cross, was stellar last year, huge PL red (rare) - will it come true?
Sunlucky - from Keith - to evaluate.
Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red - for fresh seed, and to compare with Aker's WV as a large red (I grew that last year).
Little Lucky - of course. Always seem to be short of seed for this.
And in smaller pots, but still the driveway
Stick - fresh seed...and, just because...
Silvery Fir Tree - ditto
Variegated - ditto
Kimberly - to get a nice non-cherry red early in the season for salads
Whew...that seems to work out just fine and saved me lots of retyping!
OK...now I am off to plant peppers and eggplant for the driveway pots. (in between the raindrops!)....
later on....
the rain held off all day - managed to get eggplant and sweet peppers and some hot peppers planted before I ran out of gas. On tap for tomorrow - the odd and unusual sweet and hot peppers, and perhaps start on the Dwarf tomatoes.
I did take a video, but need to look it over, edit it and load to YouTube prior to posting. Just a bit of a walk about garden update.
Here are the eggplant I put into big pots today:
New York Improved (green stem - this is typical)
New York Improved (purplish stem - a cross, perhaps?)\
Casper (green stem - typical)
Casper (purplish stem - cross?)
Neon F1
Apple Green
Ripples
Batu
Rosita
Neon F2 (green stem)
Neon F2 (slightly purplish stem)
Orient Express F2 (purplish stem)
Orient Express F2 (dark purple stem)
Rosa Bianca (still too small for the big pot, but got one ready for it)
Sweet peppers:
Hershey F1
Jimmy Nardello
Lipstick
Orange Bell
Purple Beauty
Super Shepherd
Super Stuff
Chervena
Chocolate Bell
Amethyst
Fire Opal
Hot Peppers:
Fish
NuMex Heritage
Purple Haze
Golden Habanero
Ghost
Malu Miris
Datil
Jamaican Hot Chocolate