If
lettuce gets bitter
when it gets warm
and tomatoes prefer to be planted
when it gets warm
does it follow
that tomatoes should be planted
when the lettuce gets bitter?
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Tomato Day
Even though the nights are still getting cold (40-50F), I decided to put my tomatoes in the ground. Last year, I tried some fancy pants "heirloom" varieties of tomatoes. I was disappointed. They were not disease resistant and did not produce well. It might have been the weather last year, but, with my limited garden space, I decided that I wanted something more reliable. So I put in two 6" seedlings:
1) Better Boy - "vigorous vines yield tasty tomatoes with excellent disease resistance. Indeterminate plant produces a continuous supply of fruit until frost."
2) Champion - "provides high yields of very sweet, solid meaty tomatoes. Disease resistant. Indeterminate vines."
How did I forget last year that seedlings go on sale after Memorial Day. Note to self: Buy plants the weekend after Memorial Day. 33% off!
I have put in some annuals as well:
1) Stock - Harmony Mix
2) Marigold - French Dwarf - Safari Mix (this one has a pretty orange and yellow petal)
3) French tarragon
4) Vietnamese Coriander (Rau Rahm)
5) Linum Perenne - Sapphire - pretty blue flower
6) Sweet basil - genovese
7) Thai basil
8) Greek Columnar basil
9) Lobelia - Regatta mix (pink, purple, and blue)
10) Petunia - hurrah blue (that really dark, velvety purple)
11) Fenugreek
12) Phlox subulata - creeping phlox - candy stripe (pretty pink and white petals)
13) Thai hot pepper
The little thai pepper is sad. I think the plant actually shrunk since I planted it two weeks ago. Maybe it likes warmer weather. And I've nearly weeded the Vietnamese coriander out multiple times. It looks like a weed. The fenugreek looks like alfalfa so I have to resist weeding that one, too.
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