Morning Y’all. Welcome to another DownHeah edition of Saturday Morning Garden Blogging. We’re here every Saturday at 8am Central, so please make us part of your weekend routine!
First, just a minor rant on the weather. It’s much too warm too early! The damnable BraDford Pear trees bloomed out about 3 days ago and we got over 5” of rain on Friday, so I’m a bit grumpy….
Ok, end of weather rant.
I struggled with my tomato grow list this year; only Big Beef, Sully’s Pink, Sully’s Dwarf Gina (named in honor of our own GCNY, who sent me the original Sully Project seeds) and HPRM F2, a trial that CWalter and I are working on as a side gig from over at Doc’s were locked in. In the end, I decided on several varieties from TimothyT, a tomato/pepper breeder of some renown from NC. Alma’s Century Pink, Carolina Dusk and Dusky Maiden are all new to me this year. You can look at some of his work Here. Other varieties include Maria, Triple-L-crop and Campari (from seeds saved from a Kroger tomato). These will be ready for up potting in a couple of weeks...
The Pepper Patch is coming along nicely. Seeds were planted out first week in January; all have been potted since then. I’m going with some of my old favorites, jalapenos, Prarie Spice, Rooster Spur and Hinkelhatz. I’m also going with some very hot/super hot varieties this year; Carolina reaper, scotch bonnet, and several purple varieties including Purple Ghost Pepper, and Purple Fatalii. Also, Chocolate Habanero...
All the pepper plants have been up potted; the tomato seedlings will follow in about 2 weeks...
That’s about it from DownHeah this fine Saturday Morning; what’s going on in your garden?