Starting My 2024 Tomato Seeds!
Sowing My 2024 Tomato Seeds!
I am going CRAZY CRAZY this time of year! SO close to gardening time, yet so far away...
Right now, my time is spent sowing seeds indoors in my Grow Light Shelves, to get ready for spring planting outside. This week, I am sowing my tomato seeds.
I have planted some seeds Mid January in order to try an experiment and get an early harvest for making some sauces, and some salsa. But this past week? I planted many more varieties of tomato seeds:
PLUM TYPE:
Yellow Plum, Ukrainian Plum, Roma, San Marzano
Small Variety slicer:
Tigerella
Larger, Beefsteak slicer variety:
Beefsteak, Cherokee Purple, Black Sea Man, Giant Crimson, Mushroom Basket, Ananas Noir (Black Pineapple), Brandywine Yellow
I will wait for two more weeks before I begin planting my Cherry TOMATO TYPES. Those have a faster germination rate and a shorter time from Seed to harvest. If I plant too soon, they'll be too big, before it is warm enough outside for me to plant them in their forever home!
THE biggest key I have is WHAT I plant them into: SIFTING SEED STARTER and POTTING SOIL to get the fluffiest and best soil for growing seedlings! I use a special Classifier made for the gem hunting/ gold mining hobby, to sort thru my potting and seed starting miux, to get that fluffy light mix of soil.
The thing is, when starting seedlings, I use a SEED STARTING soil-less mix. I grow the seedlings in a mix of half Sphagnum PEAT MOSS, 1/4 Vermiculite, 1/4 Perlite. The mix has no real soil. No nutrition. No fertilizer. NOW, the reason why, is that seed has all it needs to grow except light, air and water. Soil is not needed until a couple weeks into their growing.
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Looking tasty, healthy and valid. I'm on for planting basilic soon.
I've mentioned it before buy I cook with it a LOT.
Good think I grow it.
Thanks for the video, it's very informative.
YOu're in cape cod, I see. I'm in southwestern NYS, and I won't start my tomatoes for at least another month. I don't have anywhere to put them when they get too big.
Love the brandywines, but thankfully haven't had any pest problems. I plant black brandywine.
You must eat an awful lot of tomatoes! Or are you growing for a community?
I went to college in Upstate: Ithaca College. my youngest did as well!
I've grown the Brandywine black, last year, and Brandywine Orange.
No just growing for my own family and some close friends. We make a lot of pasta over winter and use the tomatos I grow for some of my home made sauces.
I love those tomatoes, make me want to gobble them.
so many kinds... so much to enjoy, right?
Yes, you are right (^_^)
Nice to see the end product as you are starting your seeds. I'm sure you have a great video archive by now. Looks like you bored your cat to sleep not that it takes much to talk a cat into a nap 🙂 We are at the cleaning out the garage to get grow lamps set up stage. The shelves gradually get filled with all kinds of junk over the winter 🙄
I am lucky, I keep my grow light shelves to myself all season. part of it is, I grow all winter (lettuce and herbs indoors)
Can't wait to hear what you are going to start!
Really fascinating when you can grow your own food 😍
I love it. You should try, too!
May have to follow your example and get some going here!
Plant some cherry tomato, get the girls involved!