Dixie Chicks

[Alaskan]

Arg!

V... It usn't happy to limp about? I hate killing them when you can't eat it.

Maybe dice him up, and feed to the chickens?

Or stick him in the deep center of the compost pile.


BC, where did you see the FIFTYday tomatoes?

Me want!!!!!

 

[vehve]

Al, we can use it for dog training, good to have some bunnies for tracking purposes. The youngest lab needs to do it's first test at some point, and part of that is tracking a bunny. It isn't dragging it's foot as badly as it did in the morning, but we'll see in the evening.

 

[Beer can]

@Alaskan https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ggbMAA&usg=AFQjCNFpKYuI2I_0N1PCNi3XLLxGp0yK_w
They've got a hybrid small one also called Tumbler hybrid 45 days.

 

[perchie.girl]

Is this Tumbler a Fodder beet?

http://www.mypatriotsupply.com/Red_Mammoth_Fodder_Survival_Heirloom_Beet_Seeds_p/mammoth.htm

http://sustainableseedco.com/heirlo...loom-seeds/red-mammoth-mangel-beet-seeds.html

Most of the sites I see say you can start them indoors that would extend the growing season for Alaska. You can also start harvesting as early as sixty days. Thinning out you just snip off the stem and either eat it or feed it to the chickens.

My understanding is its the amount of sunlight that crops get not necessarily the amount of days?

deb

 

[Alaskan]

Deb, It depends on the plant

For some it is light, others heat

So up here, all of the leafy things grow into monsters (as long as you can keep them from bolting)

Cabbages easily grow into enormous balls.

Tomatoes though, they really need heat.

 

[vehve]

Al, you got any exposed rock on your property? Last summer we had a tomato pot sitting out on a cliff at the cottage all summer, with open sea on one side. You'd think the wind would have kept it cool, but I think the rock absorbed so much heat it kept it warm in the night as well, and that's why the plant grew really nice 'maters.

 

[Alaskan]

No rocks. Seriously, this is the most rock free place I have ever seen.

 

[CanuckBock]

BC, where did you see the FIFTYday tomatoes?

Me want!!!!!

Fifty day tomatts are out there...hunt a little bit and you can find them.

From the 22 pages of tomatoes that Heritage Harvest Seed (nfi) offers...

42 days - 45 to 50 days RED salad size

Stupice - 50 days RED 2"by2"; Czech

Latah - 50 days RED 2" across; U of Idaho

Kalinka - 50 days RED in clusters, can be used in canning

Centennial Rocket - 50 days 1967, small fruit; Alberta Lacombe


Latah is also offered by Mapple (nfi) and they say it is blight tolerant too, 2-3" fruit from plants set out in May and harvested in July. Growing tomatoes in far north, able to grow them ripened on the vine.

I will be getting a packet and see how it works out here...greenhouse grown though...we get frost on and off all summer, and SNOW every month of the year here--I repeat snow every month (July, August)... So all it takes is one snow fall in August of two inches like in 2001 and there goes the tomatoes...Greenhouse/Man Porch or forget it.

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Sandhill Preservation (nfi) is in the US and Glenn has TONS of tomato varieties, range he gives is:

Very Early - 55 days or less

Of the 746 varieties of tomatoes that Glenn and Linda have listed...here is a quick scan for four of the VERY EARLY you can get this year. There could be more but the Canuck buck sucks compared to the Yankey one...so I won't be shopping cross border for this year, eh.

http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/tomato.html:

Glacier: Very Early, Potato Leaf, producing small, salad size fruits, sparse foliage. Introduced in 1985 from Sweden. Pkt. $3.00 Certified Organic Seed

Moscow: Very Early, Determinate, compact plants. Similar to Siberia. Pkt. $2.50 Certified Organic Seed

Superbec: Very Early, Determinate, 8 oz. fruits, red globe from Quebec. Pkt. $2.50 Certified Organic Seed

Yorkbec: Very Early, Determinate, red globe 4 to 6 oz. size from Quebec. Pkt. $1.75 Certified Organic Seed



Bradley: Very Early, Determinate, 2 oz. fruits, heavy yields. Earliest tomato in 525 grown in 2005. (UNAVAILABLE FOR 2016)

Canabec Super: Very Early, Determinate, 4 to 6 oz. globe-shaped pinkish red fruits from Quebec. Pkt. $1.75 (UNAVAILABLE FOR 2016)

Kimberly: Very Early, Semi-Determinate, Potato Leaf, 1 to 2 oz. globe fruits, sweet and juicy, high yields. Bred by John de Rocque of Kimberly, BC, Canada from a Siberia x Tiny Tim cross. They've been carefully selected for hardiness, early ripening, and quality. Sets fruit at unusually low temperatures. Good also for greenhouse culture, very productive. (UNAVAILABLE FOR 2016)


TOMATO - CHERRY/SALAD
Whippersnapper: Very Early, Determinate, pink/red cherry, plants seem to have more fruit than leaves. (UNAVAILABLE FOR 2016)


This year, my focus is on getting tomatoes in lotsa colours...yellow, orange, red with orange stripes, black, purple, white, green zebra (yellow striped green)...all my parameters are 65 to 70, 75 days with the seventy-five being the max I will accept for this year at least--one type is coming from my father's home country in Northern Europe--orange paste one/sausage shaped. Trying two neat ones...Reisetomate from Heritage Harvest which forms clusters...so you tear off a red cherry tomato that is fused to the group. Other kewl one, this one from Mapple...getting a big package of Mystery Keeper...harvested as green and stored on the kitchen counter...until like EASTER...yikes...we shall see, eh...we shall SEE!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[hennible]

Geez... The end of a hatch is the worst... Is that a pip? Oh I think I hear something... Nope delusional...

 

[Alaskan]

I have two weeks to go and am already loosing it. -sigh-