Thank you Farmerdill! Nice to see you!
Jung catalog
Mr. Stripy Tomato - for me, it was a great big sprawly climbing (into pear tree) vine with a few great big flatish fruits that wasted lots of space on shoulder business, but the eating part was the most shockingly sweet candy-like tomato I every tasted. Pure ambrosia. But I don't guess I'll grow one this year. Gonna try a black one. Never have before.
My favorite cherry type is Jelly Bean from Scheepers. Haven't tried them all, of course! But jellybean has firm yet tender skin, and is very delicious, and easy to pick. I'm tired of sorting
good tidbits out from a big cluster of green, overripe, split, unsplit, and everything else!
I planted two grape tomatoes Juliet year before last. While they didn't climb into a tree they were big and produced heavy crops for a very long time.
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i liked Juliet for fresh garden munching. They have good size for "cherry" type tomatoes so they are not so tedious eating.
I planted mine for the grandkids that love to stand in the garden,pick them and eat them on the spot. What do kids know about washing first...LOL
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For those of you looking for quality potatoes and good variety at good prices check out Ronnigers.com. They offer certified seed potatoes and if you select one of their packages you can choose the kind of potatoes you want at terrific prices and no shipping (just a reasonable handling charge). They carry the gourmet varieties as well.
I used to get my seed potatoes from Jung's and was satisfied but we like the yellow ones only and I found Ronnigers offered a bigger selection. The quality was better. Ronnigers recommends letting them sprout before you plant them. They come up faster that way when you plant them. Just remember to remove the mesh bags before they sprout (or you'll be spending a long time clipping around the sprouts to remove the bag!) and lay them out in trays in a cool dark spot. I cover them with newspaper.
Thanks gardadore for the link and suggestions.
I still haven't received my potatoes from Jung. Our planring date is Feb.14th so maybe they'll get here soon.
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bigred,
It's -20º in Wisconsin. Taters freeze at +32º. I don't think they will ship right now.
I asked a fellow from Wisconsin what the big hurry was in planting them so early up there...through frosts and such. He said it was a traditional thing....[in the old-timers day] .......they could plant a late summer crop of something for fall.
Well, I leave them in the ground to harvest as needed so I don;t plant potatoes until the 20th or so of April.
That's about right for here too.
We've always tired to get our's in the ground on Valentine Day....but it did drop 8"of snow on us Valentine's Day a couple years ago.
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