Tomatoes Are Started.

2-8-12 SHORT HILLS: It’s supposed to be a cold weekend, and there might be snow here tonight. As it happens, we go to Naples to visit Ken and Carol, perhaps good timing for once.

Speaking of timing, my tomato and corn seeds came from Johnny’s Selected Seeds yesterday, and I started the tomatoes. Last year I started them a month or so later than now, and they weren’t quite ready on Memorial Day when they go out in VT. If they’re bigger when they go in the ground, so much the better.

I started five types, two grapes, one Sun Gold and one Red Grape, and three slicers, a Defiant, a Big Beef, and a Heirloom Moskvich. I put 3 or 4 seeds in each of six cups for each variety—thirty cups and about 100 seeds. I expect to put out 3 or 4 of each plant in May.

Naples tomorrow.


Tomatoes-Day One.