Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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May 30, 2019 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: NJ
Posts: 123
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Tomato plant overload!!
Central NJ members...
I have approximately 80 tomato plants to give away including 28 highly decorative & desirable "woollies". Most are in 16-18 ounce Solo cups. A total of 52 varieties. 17 pepper plants & 5 eggplant seedlings also. All grown by me, from seed. If interested message me. Last edited by nyrfan; May 30, 2019 at 08:53 AM. |
May 30, 2019 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: NJ
Posts: 123
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Tomato plants available, by quantity
1 Barry's Crazy Cherry Black Beauty Cherokee Rose Elma Blue Extravagante Rouffiange Furry Bumblebee Fuzzy Wuzzy Girl Girl's Weird Thing Golden Crabapple Great White Blues Green Giant Jill In A Box #1 F4 Jill In A Box #2 F4 Kitayskiy Oksamitoviy Limmony Marsha's Starfighter Beefsteak F6 Mocha Splash "Not Moonlight Mile Potato Leaf" Oaxacan Jewel Painted Lady Potato Leaf Variegated Potato Leaf Variegated Heart Pride Of Flanders Woolly Purple Boy Rose Quartz Multiflora Roughwood Golden Tiger Seattle Blue Woolly Mammoth Siniy Variegated Velue Striée Woolly Blue Wine Woolly Green Zebra Woolly Kate Yellow Yamali Blue Yamali Yellow 2 Colonial Cylon Mississippi Queen Pansy Ap Scheherezade Sweet Ozark Orange The Fuzz Dwarf F10 Woolly Blue Jay Woolly Kate 3 Moldovan Green Persik Pinocchio Orange (may keep these) Smoky Mountain Southern Sparkle Velvet Red 4 Dark Queen Great White Pepper plants available, by quantity 1 Candy Cane Fish Lilac Bell "Not Tricolor Variegated" White Cloud 2 California Wonder Chocolate Beauty Golden Calwonder Guizhou Bullet Orange Sun "Sirin Thai" Eggplant seedlings, by quantity 1 Waimanalo Long 2 Bride Prosperosa Last edited by nyrfan; May 30, 2019 at 04:14 PM. |
May 30, 2019 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
Posts: 9,283
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You are very generous. If your county has a large volunteer network, or if there are community gardens, I bet you will find a home for them.
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May 30, 2019 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Zone 6 Northern Kentucky
Posts: 1,094
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Great offer...
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May 30, 2019 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: OH 6a
Posts: 592
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I have this problem every year.
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May 30, 2019 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Florence KY
Posts: 234
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My wife always manages to find takers for my extras every year, but I usually have about 20 every year.
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May 30, 2019 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 6
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I wish I lived closer! I'd come grab that Fish pepper.
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May 30, 2019 | #8 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: So Cal
Posts: 380
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I had over 150 extra plants. I took some to the community garden, some to the American Legion and also to friends. I have 6 left, they are going today to a friend who called last night that I had not talked to for quite a while.
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May 30, 2019 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: N. California
Posts: 694
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Following along since I usually have a similar (but smaller!) dilemma each year, and wonder if this post will attract some useful suggestions for the future. I am assuming shipping seedlings is out of the question for most of us.
My daughter is visiting, and I have "digital marketing" on my mind. I bet there is a website for a local sales or swap community that could work quite well. This one is Freecycle https://www.freecycle.org/ After the swap and give-away options are done, comes the tough choice part! Last edited by Shrinkrap; May 30, 2019 at 12:41 PM. Reason: It occurred to me the anaolgy might be offensive. |
May 30, 2019 | #10 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: connecticut,usa
Posts: 1,150
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gave some to the mailman today.
The score is 30 different types and still after 2 more. |
May 30, 2019 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 3,194
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I've given them to the local food bank and also taken some to church.
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May 30, 2019 | #12 |
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I ended up with about 40 extra tomato and pepper seedlings. I took them to the office and did a giveaway to coworkers and even the security guards in the lobby. Great way to get to know my coworkers better, and all plants got a new home.
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May 30, 2019 | #13 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Southern CA
Posts: 1,714
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I give my extras out every year too & even though given freely, the unexpected rewards have been welcome, such as restaurant meals, bakery goods etc. I gave my hair stylist 4 seedlings this year and he gave me a free haircut! That was definitely the best of all in value
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May 30, 2019 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 1,460
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I give away between 40-75 plants each year to coworkers and family. Better than killing those extra seedlings I need to weed out!
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May 31, 2019 | #15 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Florence KY
Posts: 234
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No fringe benefits have made their way to me from prior seedling give-aways. Not even a report on how well they performed, but it is better than just pitching them in the trash.
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