peppers, eggplant and tomatillos up potted. and a few tomatoes.
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I use fish emulsion until I put them in their home, where I switch to granular tomato/vegatable fertilizer. Sometimes I give them some liquid 30-10-10 if I have extra from watering my other plants. Still new to fertilizing, but it really does make a difference.
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Interesting. Yeah, I have never actively fertilized my beds beyond soil testing/amending and adding compost. I’ll try it out this year. Thus far. I’ve been adding seaweed to my seedlings since it’s taking longer to warm up.
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Going to be making some salsa tomorrow. Everglades, Golden Currants, San Marzanos and Sun Golds and then Jalepenos, Serranos and maybe some Thai Dragons. I also have some frozen Sunberries and green Jalepenos to add to it. Gonna be good 
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I wanted to get an earlier start, but we didn’t get it together and it took a while to get our grow tent and light situation going.
We have a short season so I came to the realization that we need help. We’re tired of doing a bunch of work and using a bunch of water that we pay to get delivered and not getting much for it
We are pretty excited right now because we have quite a few pepper and tomato seedlings going and I managed to get my hands on the real bloody butcher and Heidi seeds, which were two tomatoes I really wanted to try.
For peppers right now we have seedlings of Big Jim hot, Jimmy Nardello, Calabrian, sweet banana, shishito, red Belgium, Tam jalapeño, and poblano.
For tomato, we have bobcat hybrid, kelloggs breakfast potato leaf, opalka, super sweet 100s, Hawaiian pineapple, Principe, borghese, new big dwarf, Heidi, black from Tula, aunt Ruby‘s German green, glacier, stump of the world, Boxcar Willie, Oregon spring, bloody butcher, big rainbow, azoycha, Eva purple ball, galina yellow cherry, Bonnie best, Matina.
We will see what else sprouts, some are more advanced as they got an earlier start.
Normally, I shy away from hybrid seeds, but bobcat was a free gift to a seed order and we absolutely adore super sweet 100s.
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hardening off, they’re all under agribon tonight it’ll be 45F- Weds it’ll be 44, no more night temps under 47 on the long forecast so yeah
i really hate doing the shuffle, hope the agribon protects em through the few nights of cooler temps. it was almost 80F today…
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I add compost to my soil (don’t have beds), and in each hole I’ll add composted chicken manure (it used to be composted steer manure, but I noticed it was a bit more sandy) and Espoma Garden-tone when I transplant. Once tomatoes and peppers start to flower, I’ll switch to Tomato-tone. I’ll occasionally top dress throughout the season with chicken manure and Tomato-tone—when I’m up for it 
. For liquid fertilizers, I’ve used Kellogg’s Organic Fish and Kelp Liquid Fertilizer which I don’t use anymore after rotted tomatoes smelled like fish! I heard about Texas Tomato Food from Tomatoville, which I started using in 2023. I’m still trying to find a liquid fertilizer that I like though. The latter one has helped with BER on my Roma tomatoes and bell/poblano peppers. These three I struggle with BER. Watering is consistent, so I’m not sure. My best year for tomatoes and peppers was 2023. I’m hoping this year it’ll be a success. Last year was an average year, I was able to harvest throughout the season, but in 2023 I was harvesting so much that I froze a lot and gave my family and neighbors some. I had tomatoes all of winter in the fridge, and those that were frozen were used up until spring or early summer. Any dish that contained tomatoes tasted so good.
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Burpee’s has a 25% code right now, and I was browsing their selection. I’ve never grown a hybrid tomato before, not even the famous Sungold, which I’ll buy today, but I am curious of those of you who have: which other tomato would you recommend? I’m tempted by SuperSauce and Big Mama.
The quintessential heirlooms, Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine and company, seem like a deal. Over a hundred seeds for 4 bucks. Time to finally grow some of these varieties. I’ve tried Cherokee Purple, but it doesn’t do too well here in 10b—or I might need to try from another seed company.
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i have to beg , can you tell me where to get the somewhat slutty tomatos or the seeds ? i want to send some to my cousins wife as a gag gift
I believe I got these in 2024. They came from https://goingtoseed.org/
They are a breeding mix of sorts but I can’t remember the specifics.
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I sowed Moskvich and Rutgers (seed from MIgardener) in February or March; I’m not too sure on the date. They were replanted a bit ago and fruit has now set. I’m thinking I might have tomatoes in early June, perhaps. This is the earliest. I’m curious how they’ll taste since it’s been gloomy lately–love a sun-warmed July tomato. Tomorrow, however, it will be in the high 80s to low 90s.
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Does anyone know what variety of tomato this is? I just saw a reel of it on IG. Never seen such an elongated and on-the-thin-side tomato.
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Look like San Marzanos, but more pointed. When mine are underwatered, they kinda look like that. I imagine they are either that or some hybrid with that as its parent.
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They look like San Marzano crossed with a grape tomato. I’ll see if I can find seeds. I like growing unusually shaped tomatoes. 
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So I just inspected my tomato plants because I found bits of leaves strewn about a couple of plants in the morning. I decided to inspect at night to see if there was a cutworm; I could not find one. I’m thinking it might be the birds pecking at the young shoots, which leads me to my question: Does a semi-determinate plant act like an indeterminate or a determinate? The Rutgers variety I planted are semi-determinate, but all the side shoots near ground level (the bushy aspect of a determinate) have been cut or pecked off, the central leader still remains. Will the plant still grow up? Maybe not as much, but it will not die off like a determinate?
Semi-Indeterminate just means it’s a compact indeterminate I’m pretty sure
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well everything is planted out here now. for some reason I had 3 edelerot tomato started and only intended to try one out, I think they’re determinate so it might be an issue? unless they don’t produce much.
trying:
Oregon spring, reisetomate, hogheart
growing multiple:
black krim, Chinese red, Japanese black trifele, San marz, Amish paste, yellow double rich, a pink tomato I’ve list the label for, and a few others. I still have half a tray I need to find room for.
put out the peppers and eggplant too. astralkom and Rosa Bianca did best last year so I’ve got those in and long purple too. peppers are all over the place though, can do a list and pictures later
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Sugar Rush Peach takes forever to sprout. This is the number one pepper I want to try, and I can’t get it to sprout. I’ve grown an habanero and aji before, but this one is tricky.
My SRPs sprouted at a regular speed. They were growing slow, but I transplanted all my peppers too small and it stunts them for like a month or more when you do that. My Peppa Peach Sugar Rush Stripey did not sprout. My Sugar Rush Stripey sprouted a little bit slower then the others, but not a worrisome amount. Very excited for them, they are supposed to be one of the best tasting peppers.
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I keep hearing about how good they taste, and I want to try them so bad. I bought my seeds from Baker Creek. Hopefully it goes well.
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