How do you decide what to grow? - Page 3

rxkeith · February 6, 2006

what it comes down to for me, is will it get ripe before the frost hits it. sometimes its a challenge to get some mid season varieties to ripen in quantity for me. i try to weight my choices toward the best earlier, and mid season varieties, and experiment with a few late season ones just to see. the ones that do well and taste good come back. one of these days i'll have a green house, and that will widen my choices a bit.

keith in calumet

timcunningham · February 6, 2006

Pretty much, whatever I hear Carolyn or Craig talk about. They are much smarter than I am, so why reinvent the wheel? Also if those seeds fail, whatever seedlings Darrell at selectedplants.com has in stock (like last year, I cooked a whole bunch of seeds with an electric blanket - very expensive experiment)

<--- Tim (with Max on his back)

February 6, 2006	#31
rxkeith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Back in da U.P. Posts: 1,839	what it comes down to for me, is will it get ripe before the frost hits it. sometimes its a challenge to get some mid season varieties to ripen in quantity for me. i try to weight my choices toward the best earlier, and mid season varieties, and experiment with a few late season ones just to see. the ones that do well and taste good come back. one of these days i'll have a green house, and that will widen my choices a bit. keith in calumet

February 6, 2006	#32
timcunningham Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Middle Georgia Posts: 241	Pretty much, whatever I hear Carolyn or Craig talk about. They are much smarter than I am, so why reinvent the wheel? Also if those seeds fail, whatever seedlings Darrell at selectedplants.com has in stock (like last year, I cooked a whole bunch of seeds with an electric blanket - very expensive experiment) <--- Tim (with Max on his back)