I sometimes think we take for granted that we can grow our own food and even wonder why more people don't always feel as thrilled as we do when we harvest our own home grown goodies, but I have to admit I squealed with delight today as I was picking some salad greens from my wee pot garden on my north facing balcony, along with the radishes and baby lettuce greens I found two ready to eat tomatoes from an ultra early tomato claimed to be suitable for colder areas , it is certainly the earliest I have ever known unless under glass and with heat and the taste was surprisingly good for an early .
Today was a real good day.
XX Jeannine
Lucky you, I'm so jealous. I've been searching for that variety all year, but it is so expensive did yours come from the Rubins brothers? They are breeding some super types.
Closest to fruit I have is a dwarf (not really sure what, possibly Vilma) plant which I had on a windowsill this winter which is just starting to flower.
Jay,it was a swap with a Czech friend from a couple of years ago, he sent me quite a few toms but I can't get a lot of info on them.. this one was in the original packet, just put my hands on it..can't read much but this one was called Polyyagnyk Krasnet, that is not exact as some of the letters are funny, anyway my friend said it means Polar Blush. It is pink with deeper pink streaks on it. I wasn't sure it would be ripe enough but it was OK.
It is a dwarf plant about 18-20 inches.
I do have extra seeds if you fancy a few.
XX Jeannine
Oh, I think it may be a different variety or renamed perhaps? I'm sure the one I was looking for was Dubna something, maybe someone else knows?
Yes I'd love some seeds, size sounds ideal and pretty too. Early tomatoes here we come ;D. Do you think there is enough time to get a small crop this year if I sow quite soon? I should have spare seeds then if anyone else wants to try.
When should I sow for next years earlies?
I have just planted lettuces out in the greenhouse,very,very satisfying.
Hi Jeannine - lucky you to have tomatoes already! Would I be too cheeky asking for a few seeds? Maybe some saved ones from this years produce? Then I could grow some really early ones next year.
Tricia
we picked some small leaves from the salad box, some radish leaves to thin them out, red mustard and mibuna greens (thank you, jeannine, still using your seeds)..small overwintered purplette onions and some carrot thinnings, also over winter, haven't got any toms yet though....lovely fresh salad ;D
OH dear, I really have egg on my face with this one. I felt sure you would all come back at me with your April fools day jokes and the post would turn funny.. that's life I guess.
XX Jeannine
Oh no ..we do not fool around ;D..this is serious business..
In our lottie there is always selected group of members who year after year compete with earliest possible crop..not official competition...just so that they can drop a line during conversation that they have "such and such all ready".. ::)
some years some of them are already clearing tomato plants off for other crops when most of us is only just starting to get first ones on plate ::) ::)
..the weather at the moment is best april fools joke... ::) ::)
Well I agree, we always managed our first tomato (tumblers by the way in a heated greenhouse)tiny spuds , salsds and asparagus to coincide with Mayday, but this was a whole month earlier
XX Jeannine
Looks like Im not the only one without a sense of humour then.
sorry jeanine,that one passed me by completely!!! think we were all so jealous we didnt realise it was a joke!well done you and how much of an april fool do i feel now,you got me! ;D ;D ;D
(are we all plotting how to get her back next year)
x x
Oh dear ::) - I'm the one with egg on my face for not realising it was April Fool's Day. The days go by so fast I can't keep up with days of the week - let alone the calendar!
Tricia
I do have small geen fruit on my Tumblers ..honest XX Jeannine
:-[ Sorry for being naughty too
The only way I'll believe that Jeannine is if you post a piccie! None of my plants - sown beginning of January - are even close to flowering yet.
Tricia
I will ty to do so.XX Jeannine
Quote from: Jayb on April 04, 2010, 18:53:23
:-[ Sorry for being naughty too
hahaha you were in on it too,so funny!
;D
You have to look really close, it is at the bottom pointing down, still has the remains of a flower on it.
XX Jeannine
Brilliant Jeannine - when did you sow them for heaven's sake?? I am soooo jealous! I didn't realise that BC was so much warmer than Alberta. My sister had snow again only a couple of days ago in Calgary.
Tricia
Tricia, it is no big deal, I do a few toms each year under lights inside, I always do just 2 Tumblers as I am not keen on the flavour but it beats the shops and keeps us going till the better ones come along. This year this is the best as the other one has no flowers opened yet but getting there. I start them between Christmas and New Year but this time it was a bit later beginning of January sometime. I have a lamp that has a base for a pot, has a full daylight bulb in that comes on automatically when the light is low .It is a bit gimmicky but it was a housewarming gift seems to work but I do miss my heated, lit greenhouse!!
So don't feel bad,apart from the other Tumbler which has to share the light when it can, my others are all stretched and skinny, they were only started a few weeks ago and they look terrible.
I am trusting the lamp to help out with the odd pepper seed or two ::)
Re the weather here, I have seen no snow at all only on the mountains in the distance, and have had no heating on this winter, the West Coast of BC is very mild....usually.
Owe you a PM.
XX Jeannine