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The first week of February, I start tomato seeds for my French-style potager. I prefer starting plants from seed, as you can try far more varied and exotic varieties than are locally available. I also like watching the seedlings emerge.
I always start with my usual favorites:
Amish Paste--good for soups and sauces
Big Rainbow--colorful and delicious on sandwiches
Black Krim
Black Cherry--the most delicious dark cherry tomato
Black from Tula
Brandywine--a very tasty slicing tomato
Caspian Pink
Garden Peach
Green Zebra--love that green color
Persimmon
Prudens Purple
Striped Stuffer--a pretty tomato good for stuffing
Sunsugar
Super Sweet 100 (a hybrid)
Sweet Tangerine--a nice orange color that looks great when sliced with other colors
Yellow Pear--my favorite for salads
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| The French Farmhouse photo |
This year I have picked several new varieties from www.tomatogrowers.com:
Snow White--a small white salad tomato
Green Grape
Red Pear
Cherokee Chocolate--they sent this free as a bonus
Seed starting supplies I use
If you start them this week in SoCal, they will be ready to plant outside by St. Patrick's Day. I set my seed tray in my kitchen garden window, where they get filtered sun.
Tomatoes as art-- tomatoes from the farmer's market arranged in an antique Chinese bowl.
One of my favorite vegetable gardening books--circa 1995.
Happy planting!
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