The Old Folks Home

[Nomadicus]

I'm researching now for what varieties grow best here. We will start our own plants in a sun room that gets lots of sunlight and bugs can't get to the seedlings. Once started we can move them to a hoop type green house to grow and harden off in. Once we think we know how many of what is enough we will double it and hopefully have enough. I think garden math is a first cousin to chicken math.

 

[Nomadicus]

Here in the lower south east there is a virus that effects tomatoes and that is one reason to ask before I do. Seed are extremely pricey now for some of them. No longer 25¢ for a 100 seed. $6 for 20 seed for some of the better beefsteak types.

 

[LaurenRitz]

But you can easily harvest seeds from the tomatoes you eat. If you have plants that are affected by disease but live, plant those seeds out separately for the beginning of a possibly resistant population.

 

[Nomadicus]

But you can easily harvest seeds from the tomatoes you eat. If you have plants that are affected by disease but live, plant those seeds out separately for the beginning of a possibly resistant population.

Yes that can work after years of trial and error. But the object is to have a years supply canned now. Seed from most tomatoes do not produce a plant that produces that same tomato and they come from productive hybrids.

 

[LaurenRitz]

If the tomatoes are open polinated or heirloom they should be stable.

Hybrids will normally produce offspring that are somewhere between the two parents in the first generation.

But if you save seeds from your heirlooms, you'll never have to buy seeds again.

 

[Nomadicus]

If the tomatoes are open polinated or heirloom they should be stable.

Hybrids will normally produce offspring that are somewhere between the two parents in the first generation.

But if you save seeds from your heirlooms, you'll never have to buy seeds again.

The catch is that heirlooms that are not hybrids don't have the disease resistance most of the time. I'm planted heirlooms to watch them make 5-10 tomatoes per plant and a good producing and good tasting hybrid produce 30-50 when trellised up. Planting a lot more plants using up garden space also has to be factored in as a cost.

 

[Nomadicus]

Goodnight Old Folks.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good Morning old folks. I hear roosters trying to get the sun to come up. They are and impatient bunch around these parts.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Aren't they crowing to scare it into staying down?

 

[sourland]

Good morning, OF.