Pretty Costoluto GenoveseTonight I started transplanting my tomato seedlings. Way overdue. They were growing into the growlights....oups.
I thought I was showing some real restraint this year by only doing 4 or 5 plantings of each type of tomato: Costoluto Genovese, Hungarian Italian Paste, Yellow Pear Cherry, Riesentraube Cherry and German Pink.
The problem is/was that both seeds in each soil block germinated. Sometimes a third one that slipped in germinated too. And I am so NOT a tomato plant killer. I just can't do it. I let them grow and then tonight I started separating them. Successfully I hope. So I end up with 8 - 10 of each kind.
Basic math: 5 varieties of tomato plants X 10 plants = 50 tomato plants. Wow.
Hungarian Italian Paste Tomato
German Pink Tomato
That's great, mom. Could you come back inside and feed me now? I'm like...starving here.Hoping everyone's garden is off to a great start. If not, you know where you can find free tomato plants now.
7 comments:
LOL...I thought I was bad. You beat everything!!! Seriously,,whatever you plant, you know you'll use. We have loved the frozen tomatoes we did last year. They make great marinara and I didn't have to can. But you have gone 'mater crazy my friend.
Wunderbar! Sounds like many nice pasta sauces this year! Real nice post!
Awww--I love the puppy!! I haven't even begun to take our winter veggies out of the garden--only the kale and chard. Broccoli and cabbage still in there! We need to get on the ball with our tomatoes!
Haha! We are on the same page when it comes to "killing tomato seedlings". Maybe I shouldn't have started any at all. I should just drive back down to SC and pick some up from you. :)
At least I don't feel so "crazy" anymore. :p
Wow! You had better start looking up tomato recipes on the internet NOW, girl, because in a couple of months you will be inundated! I just made a Parmesan-potato casserole with sun-dried tomatoes I'd dehydrated and frozen last summer from our GLUT of tomatoes. And we had only 7 plants! Start collecting those recipes now, I tell ya :)
Yay! More tomatoes for you, means maybe some for me!Keep planting! Keep planting!
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