I bought 1/4 pound of Armenian seeds from Amazon {for 16 bucks I think}. If you need a few, I'd be glad to share them.Just started 2 Black Crimean tomatoes (and Headband), some Amish ones to follow.
The vines are purple/black and spring roots at every node above ground, taste amazing.
Real easy maintenance, no excessive leaves, drought tolerant
I can LST them and clone them easy if weather doesn't break.
Lost my Armenian Cuke seeds, now I got to find a pack.
I need to plant some melons. 10-12th is good above ground days. If I get a tractor battery in town tomorrow, and if I disc the garden, and if. . . . .
I already picked up a pack, thanks Larry. they were harder to find than I thought.
Man, your label game is strong. You know how to make a guy with sun and rain washed sharpie on milk jug strips feel inadequate. lolI only had two of my eggplant starts come up but that's all I need anyway. I used some old seeds I still had. The seedlings look like a potato leaf variety of tomato called Stupice. But they'll be easily identifiable in a short time. But when young it's hard to tell them apart. Tomatoes and eggplants both belong to the nightshade family along with potatoes and peppers. I'm sure you know that. Just tossing that tidbit of info for those that might not have known. All the other tomato varieties I'm growing are regular leaf.
My other tomato and pepper starts are coming along and should be ready to put out in May. I have everything under T5's. They should be bigger but I put them outside in the greenhouse too early and they stopped growing for awhile. It was too cold.
Those Amish paste look like a decent tomato. There are just too many tomato varieties out there. I just went with seeds I already had this year except for the Delicious which is a beefsteak. I usually grow Mortgage Lifter but thought I would try out the Delicious. Next year I'll have to buy more seed so I'll try some different varieties. But I always grow the Siletz. It was developed here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and does really good here. Here is the description for the Delicious:
My labels are not outside in the elements or else they would be all faded by now. I'm not happy with them. I couldn't find a black sharpie when I labeled and had to use a green one. I've cut up plastic jugs before to make labels. The ones I'm using now were $15 for 500 on amazon. I'm going to start using pencil instead of a sharpie so it's easy to reuse them.
Outdoors pencil followed by sharpie works pretty good. Also if it's long term, like weed, I make sure the label is covered so I'll be able to read it in the fall.
Only tomatoes have more varieties than weed. I usually try a new variety every year, always a blast. Those Atomic Grapes look awesome. I need a new cherry, tired of last years endless super100's.
Rareseeds.com aka Baker creek heirloom seeds for the Brads atomic, and other psychedelic looking varieties of everything you can grow from seed.
what kind of oak? some grow 8-12 inches a year, and some grow as fast as 48 inches a year...
Not sure. The trees are pretty big, but then I planted them well before my old boss left, and she's been gone since 2000.
I have a couple of gallons of acorns. Both from the three trees here at work, and also from a wild tree at Torreya State Park. A big storm blew a bunch of them down. Not sure if they were mature enough to sprout, but I'll plant them.
