Okay I finally finished my piece for the editor. I deserve to give myself a treat.
I think I'm going to order more seeds.
🤣
I really want those orange hat tomatoes.
I absolutely don't need them. I just want them. Attached, a tray full of tomato seedlings of a wide array of varieties.
An excessive array of varieties, frankly.
Also, here's another example of how I recycle things when I'm gardening. Lettuce boxes are nice and high and make decent cloches.
Ohhhhh.
I went and counted the number of varieties of tomatoes I planted. I am actually somewhat ashamed of myself for wanting more.
But I'm still going to buy them.
Loooordt.
I bought 3 more types of tomatoes.
That'll be 64 distinct varieties. 🫣
In my defence, I'm not just planting these for myself.
Many of the micro varieties (Rosy Finch, House, Golden Nuggets, Heartbreakers, and now Orange Hat and Blaue Zimmertomate) will find homes with people who only have balconies. You'd be amazed how many cherry tomatoes they produce, and in flushes. I'm hoping the two new varieties I'm adding to the selection will follow the trend.
I invariably end up giving seedlings to family, friends, and neighbours. And kind of everybody I know.
I promised to start seedlings for an org.
All right.
This amount is absolutely excessive.
I was let loose in the seedbank on top of my tried and true seeds. I bought a few because they sounded interesting and I wanted to try them. I'm pretty sure this is more than twice the number I had last year.
I don't know. I lost my damned mind thinking about all the different colours and types of tomatoes. Like: I've been growing Black Boar tomatoes for a few years and they're very tasty, and then the seed bank had something called Pink Boar! So I grabbed a pack. And I've never grown white tomatoes, so now I have three varieties.
I don't actually have anywhere to put 64 types of tomatoes, so a lot of these I'm not even going to get to see. Maybe.
Ideas are coming to me.
I feel like I've got friends with yards who like tomatoes, and I can probably get at least one off a plant from them.
All I know is that the big seed tray that last year had tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, and more, is just tomatoes this year.
Oh boy.
How many are you still planting?
I am having the worst time getting Carolina Reapers to take.
@Gigi
I've got three varieties sprouting right now, I may do a couple more, but this year I'm busy moving my operation. Some trees were cut and a space that was previously shaded is now my only full sun on the property. The problem is that it's up a STEEP hill, so I'm hauling everything in buckets. I'm getting my exercise! 😆
I had to wait until the ground dried up enough to lug everything up there or else it would have just been a mud-fest. I'm still doing containers, but these barrels make cheap giant pots.
I haven't tried Reapers. My best pepper producer has consistently been from seeds saved from a grocery store jalapeño. Not my favorite from a flavor standpoint, but it always makes TONS of peppers.
Most of the rest were a bunch of oddball varieties and I'm not sure I've been giving them good enough conditions with the limited sun I had.
That's very cool!
Sucks that it's up a hill, though.
I had a chocolate jalapeno last year that produced enormous fruit.
Do you make cowboy candy?
@Gigi Do what makes you happy, even if it means growing 100 varieties. 😉
I heard that you get addicted once you have 10 varieties and I'm currently at 8. I'm also trying to have space left for other plants.
🙏🏾💕
It's such an irrational impulse.
Do I need to try every type of tomato that I see? Nope.
Do I want to? Yes.
@Gigi Maybe you know him already, but there's an Austrian guy who made 25 Videos [1], each about 25 minutes about the tomato varieties he grew in 2025. So you are still quite sane in comparison. 😉
[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9GKHDtTJ4k5SgnrDJjHf_cDKwXEN0Zjb
So you're saying I need some chickens? 😉
Actually that would have been a handy way to dispose of that horrible bag of Japanese beetles that collected last year.
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