I like to start them early and as soon as I can get them to garage till they go into the ground. I seem to have earlier crop having them further along. On a typical year I', picking a few around the forth of july. Next week melons, squash and pumpkins will get started in house.

planted 50+ heirloom vareties this year and a few F1's.

my neighborhood is infested with an obscene number of coffee shops so I dumpster dive for pretty pots for transplants.

Outstanding!!! Thanks for sharing your arrangement.

50 plus!!....

4 plants would be more than enough for us!, lol

Just put mine in the ground two days ago. Y’all’s looks good

Big buck sitting there. Start have been between 3 and 6 buck everywhere I looked.

We started 50 peppers and 50 tomatoes a month ago. Seams like we get some tomatoes in July then a dry spell them huge amounts in the early fall. We usually have a couple tables full of green ones that will get ripe until around Christmas
Last year peppers did not do as well as usual for us.

Here it’s around 300 tomato plants and about 200 pepper plants but nothing will be started until mid April and not planted until after Memorial Day, we’ve had too many late season freezes that damaged the plants.

snowy do you use grow lights? I never have and mine will come up and never get any bigger then yours no matter how long they are n the pots. I spoke to a guy that sells vegetables for a living and he said he never start squash. He said they don't really like being transplanted. I planted seeds outside last year when I moved my runt tomatoes out. They did fine. I plant winter squash.

No grow lights I do use heat pads till they are up. I think this year with all the sun they got everything was up in 6 days. It was a geed germination year. I use my own seed from the best of the best tomatoes each year also. They will be 18 to 20 plus inches tall when I transplant to garden.

MJM I don't like to start squash, melon and pumpkins in house but I plant them at the ranch and it works better for me because the pheasant and turkeys find every seed to plant. So, plants have worked better but I also put a few seeds along side the transplanted produce just for insurance that I get something.
Yes all those do just fine to come up for direct burial planting. I can say with plants things do set on faster then seed planting in garden. It is my experience anyway.

Mellons, squash, and cucumbers , don't trans plant every well.
Those are seed planted only for me.
LOL I found that volunteers that come up in the garden, ( tomatoes and peppers ) produce fruit just around 2 weeks after the transplants do.
So I let them grow where they are, don't move them or transplant them.
Sweet potatoes are easy to start, just put one up high, and it will sprout a bunch of slips .
Potatoes that have sprouts are always planted , even those that have sprouts a foot or more long, just bury it all but the very top leaves.
Same with tomatoes that get very long.

Looks like you will have enough to make some side money selling produce to your neighbors (or even better, barter for things)

Also surprised I can see English printed on several of your "pots"
Is there a sizeable population of English speaking residents in your area?

miss having a garden, my old place I had a big garden, been 10 years since i have had one, just a few plants in wife flower garden,

Hoe-wally too early and too many.
Hot weather go time over here.
I have 18 combined.

Found a new to me pepper recipe.
3 meat banana.
I can't find that great tman pepper recipe post.

A lot of the hybridized heirloom type tomatoes cost a dollar per seed. No wonder the nurseries want so much for plants.

I just buy fresh 'maters & other seasonal produce from local growers. There are two or three hobby farmers within 5 miles of me. I can't grow it as cheap as they sell it.

But remember, pulling weeds and tending plants is good therapy for an old retired game cop.

I planted a lot of tomato and pepper plants last week. Less than 2 hours ago, I bought 4 Stump of the World tomato plants and 4 hot banana pepper plants, at the sale we sold trees, elderberry, Jerusalem artichokes and flowers at. There was a seller there with a huge variety of tomato and pepper plants. He had many thousands of plants. He told me Stump of the World was his favorite tomato. Have any of you tried it?

Keith

That's not good therapy!

Beaver trapping and riding the New Holland in the deer woods is much better.

Never heard of the stump.
OG-50 rocks for me.

hybridized heirloom?????
Oh my lol.

No heirlooms around here unless you like spraying 2-3X/week. Fungus and disease will take out heirlooms in a heartbeat. If I want nay production, I buy hybrid and plus varieties. Spray less and get more veggies.

I try to spray natural/organic insecticides/fungicides but sometimes I have to spray synthetic. I try my best to not use any roundup. Black tarps/covers work extremely well.

Been real dry around here. I mean REALLY dry. Glad I use fertigation.

Hope everyone has a bumper crop!

Are there Mushrooms in Siberia ?

Funny guy!

I tried planting some Banana Legs tomatoes in the past two years but they germinated very poorly and were sickly. A lot of people on different websites who also tried planting this variety complain about the same thing. Only one plant survived last year. I kept the seeds to plant this year, but forgot where I put them. I still wanted to grow some so I rummaged through a big jar with dried tomatoes and found some pieces that looked like Banana Legs, but I because dried them at 75C/167F (probably a bit lower in the upper trays, but still hot) the pieces were browned, almost caramelized. I though I wouldn't lose anything if I tried, so I planted a dozen seeds hoping at least some of them weren't cooked, and not only did they ALL germinate, the sprouts were very robust, with thick stems. The same happened with my Silvery Spruce Tree heirloom tomatoes. Also from the dryer, and the young plants are unusually robust.



I discussed it with some local women who happen to be molecular geneticists and they said it was very obviously the beneficial effect of heat shock. It kills pathogens in the seeds including viruses, turns on protective genes, alters accumulated epigenetic changes and triggers DNA repair mechanisms. None of them had tried it with their vegetable seeds though. Accumulated sickness with heirloom seeds seems to be a big issue especially because the tomato originates from equatorial countries and probably needs extreme heat sometimes. I thought I'd share this trick.


The biggest, healthiest transplant this year however is from a seed that got stuck and dried up on the cutting board, from a cherry tomato that I bought in a local booze store this winter that also sells cheap food. It's 1.5 times taller than the rest (and I have quite a few other tall varieties this year).

Very interesting about the heat.
Have heard about forest fire and
wild fire affects but not on food crops.
I will bring this up for a
Penn State Guru grad friend.
Thanks.

Today--- 90F degree weather
not the seasonal norm

Have been picking a few cherry tomatoes and jalapeño peppers. I grow all my tomatoes in containers mow, so when some kind of wilt or virus hits them, I can just throw out the dirt, bleach the container, and plant again next year



My green beans will be ready to start picking in a few days

Ahhh, the ubiquitous milk crate. Thousands of uses. I guess they're the same the world around.

Tatiana, your posts and pictures are always interesting.

When I lived in the Amazon on occasion you could find a few wild cherry tomatoes. I picked tomatoes and walked through slash and burn clearings and dropped a tomato every stride and stomped it. Came back in a couple of months to wild tangles of cherry tomatoes everywhere. Normal hybrid tomatoes never produced a crop from all the soil diseases present. Even the fusarium-verticilium resistant strains.

All my set plants are still in the pots and being inside and outside until this weekend or right after. My garden is about 2.5 miles from Lake Michigan and in heavy mostly clay soil so it is cool there until late May almosst every year.

Bryce