|
Posted by on August 2, 2008, 2:45 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
Received seeds as usual from Canadian internet friend. They have done
well in past years (except for the year when everybody in So. Calif.
Coastal had wilt.
This year, virtually nada, nichts, rien, etc.
BUT -- they sprouted like mad in the mix I prepared for a couple of
Blue Hibiscus I planted in big
pots by the back door. Since the mix included a lot of my homemade
compost, I can only conclude that (a) it contained a lot of tomato
seeds from the past and (b) the mix is nutritious!
I kept transplating these tomatoes to the veg. garden, where they
flourish like mad. Not a clue as to what variety is what, but I trust
they will all taste good. If all goes well (no wilt, please heaven)
there will enough to can -- first time in several years. Other good
thing is that the plants are different sizes, so the smaller ones will
bear longer (?) than the big ones.
Anybody have similar experience?
Artful Dodger
|
|
Posted by John McGaw on August 2, 2008, 3:05 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
> Strange year!
>
> Received seeds as usual from Canadian internet friend. They have done
> well in past years (except for the year when everybody in So. Calif.
> Coastal had wilt.
>
> This year, virtually nada, nichts, rien, etc.
>
> BUT -- they sprouted like mad in the mix I prepared for a couple of
> Blue Hibiscus I planted in big
> pots by the back door. Since the mix included a lot of my homemade
> compost, I can only conclude that (a) it contained a lot of tomato
> seeds from the past and (b) the mix is nutritious!
>
> I kept transplating these tomatoes to the veg. garden, where they
> flourish like mad. Not a clue as to what variety is what, but I trust
> they will all taste good. If all goes well (no wilt, please heaven)
> there will enough to can -- first time in several years. Other good
> thing is that the plants are different sizes, so the smaller ones will
> bear longer (?) than the big ones.
>
> Anybody have similar experience?
>
> Artful Dodger
>
>
I haven't had that experience but my aunt and uncle did when I was a kid.
Outside the back of their old house they had a huge badly-maintained
compost pile -- basically a disreputable heap that received all sorts of
kitchen waste. Invariably every year it produced a bountiful crop of
tomatoes, cucumbers, various melons, and occasionally peppers. Nothing neat
about it -- just a tangled mat of plants ranging over the pile which was
probably four feet tall and certainly over six feet across. Kind of a
treasure hunt when you started looking to discover what was hidden there.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com
|
|
Posted by dafla25 on August 2, 2008, 3:08 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
they won't come true to the variety, but they will probably be just as
good. I had some volunteers one year from a tomato in the garden, and
they were better and larger than the original, and so it usually is with
natural selection. If you harvest seeds from your own tomatoes, year
after year, each year you will get a tomato that will grow better in
your particular conditions. They acclimate more every year, so the seeds
that come up are stronger.
Hypatia08@gmail.com wrote:
> Strange year!
>
> Received seeds as usual from Canadian internet friend. They have done
> well in past years (except for the year when everybody in So. Calif.
> Coastal had wilt.
>
> This year, virtually nada, nichts, rien, etc.
>
> BUT -- they sprouted like mad in the mix I prepared for a couple of
> Blue Hibiscus I planted in big
> pots by the back door. Since the mix included a lot of my homemade
> compost, I can only conclude that (a) it contained a lot of tomato
> seeds from the past and (b) the mix is nutritious!
>
> I kept transplating these tomatoes to the veg. garden, where they
> flourish like mad. Not a clue as to what variety is what, but I trust
> they will all taste good. If all goes well (no wilt, please heaven)
> there will enough to can -- first time in several years. Other good
> thing is that the plants are different sizes, so the smaller ones will
> bear longer (?) than the big ones.
>
> Anybody have similar experience?
>
> Artful Dodger
>
>
|
|
Posted by FarmI on August 3, 2008, 2:36 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
> If they are volunteers from seed, and the plants were open pollinated,
> they won't come true to the variety,
I've always found that the cherry tomatoes are true to type, and also Romas,
and if the Romas aren't true to type, there is no way I can tell the
difference.
but they will probably be just as
> good. I had some volunteers one year from a tomato in the garden, and
> they were better and larger than the original, and so it usually is with
> natural selection. If you harvest seeds from your own tomatoes, year
> after year, each year you will get a tomato that will grow better in your
> particular conditions. They acclimate more every year, so the seeds that
> come up are stronger.
We've been doing that a few years now with Black tomatoes. Dunno if they
were originally Black Russians or Black Crins (??name) but they seem to be
getting better each year as they acclimatise.
|
|
Posted by FarmI on August 3, 2008, 2:33 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
> Since the mix included a lot of my homemade
> compost, I can only conclude that (a) it contained a lot of tomato
> seeds from the past and (b) the mix is nutritious!
>
> I kept transplating these tomatoes to the veg. garden, where they
> flourish like mad. Not a clue as to what variety is what, but I trust
> they will all taste good. If all goes well (no wilt, please heaven)
> there will enough to can -- first time in several years. Other good
> thing is that the plants are different sizes, so the smaller ones will
> bear longer (?) than the big ones.
>
> Anybody have similar experience?
I always have at least some volunteer tomato plants each year, but then I
also have volunteer other plants too. The volunteer tom plants usually (but
not always) grow where a tomato has fallen the previous year and rotted on
the ground. Many people who have septic systems say that toms sprout in the
leach field. We've never had that happen.
|
| Similar Threads | Posted | | Volunteer tomatoes | June 8, 2007, 4:56 pm |
| tomatoes | August 20, 2006, 8:00 pm |
| Tomatoes | July 26, 2008, 6:53 am |
| When to plant tomatoes. | May 5, 2006, 5:07 pm |
| Tomatoes aren't ripening | July 7, 2006, 2:47 am |
| spots on tomatoes | July 7, 2006, 2:25 pm |
| Re: Canadian Tomatoes ... Huh? | July 28, 2006, 10:15 pm |
| Tomatoes Splitting | July 30, 2006, 9:39 pm |
| Tomatoes aren't ripening ? | August 16, 2006, 10:28 pm |
| Tomatoes aren't ripening | August 20, 2006, 4:55 pm |
|
XML site map