Last year, I grew two tomato plants, each purchased from a hardware store. One was a grape tomato (no idea what variety), and one was a “Better Boy.” The Better Boy was certainly not better. The grape tomato plant did fairly well, supplying Emily with tomatoes all summer (and a few here & there for the rest of us), but I only got a couple of sad tomatoes off of the Better Boy.
I decided to try growing from seed this year. I picked two varieties, “Red Grape” and “Juliet.” You can guess what the Red Grape variety is. Juliet is a type of sauce tomato, like a Roma. I chose these because they had no San Marzano seeds (seed crop failure last year), and because no one else in the family likes to eat tomatoes plain. They’ll eat a few on salads (but they’d prefer the grape kind then), but that’s about it. But I love salsa. And sauce tomatoes make the best salsa!
I’m planning to plant 2 of each type in the garden, so if all 8 plants grow well, I’ll have some extras to sell. As of today, all 4 of the Red Grape seeds have sprouted, and 3 of the Juliets.
I brought them into the office today to go under the light. I had to transplant some of the onions to make room (into cells that hadn’t germinated or the seedling died).
Next up is peppers!
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i’ve given up on anything but the sauce tomatoes. the kids don’t eat the grape tomatoes, and we d on’t eat plain sliced tomatoes,either. we do eat blts on occasion, but the sauce tomatoes are great for that (a lot more “meat”, alot less of t he seed-bearing goo). i’ll have to see if i can get anythign going here
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