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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AugustWest who wrote (553)	4/7/1999 8:10:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3496

Good Morning August, How did you know I like Magnolia trees so much??..something about the shape of those flowers always makes me think of a tree full of dainty little porcelain teacups on saucers...;-} I've started a lot of plants over the past couple of weeks. I use those big styrofoam flats that I've saved up from any plant purchases at nurseries over the years. They work great. I line them up on this neat heavy wire shoe display rack from a bankrupt shoe store (purchased for 50 cents a few years ago). It holds the styrofoam flats at just the perfect angle to catch the sun well all day. The whole "unit" is positioned along a very large south-facing living room window, so it's "part of the scenery" for several weeks each spring. Here is small sampling of this year's seedlings: Tomatoes: First Lady (because several people on this thread mentioned them) Stupice (because they are just plain great-tasting)...(-: Galina (yellow, small, round, prolific, really nice tasting). German Gold (yellow, massive, ugly shape, but good for sauces, etc...) Garden Lime (nice green colour with a bit of striping, Mmmmmm taste). Sweet Million (my "old standard" cherry tomato - prolific and sweet). Yellow Pear (yellow, pear-shaped, not that fantastic tasting, but cute looking... ;-} ** Note, some of these seeds were a couple of years old and germination was fantastic... especially considering that they are from a certain SF-tomato-grower's garden and they haven't made a big fuss about being relocated to this cold northern garden in the east... (-: In case anyone is interested in some of the other highly recommended seeds from Croc's vegetable garden: EGGPLANTS - "Dusky" - I've tried other varieties over the years, but this is still my favourite - early-bearing, prolific, firm, tasty. HOT PEPPERS - "Super Cayenne II" - first tried them last year. Gave me several baskets of bright red chile peppers that dried paper-thin and HOT!!! Be ready with the fire extinguisher... LOL. That's just a sampling. Then there are the flowers........... Croc...;-}>