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Old May 7, 2018   #1
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here's a pic,of this years tomato and pepper plants sitting in garage, pretty chilly this morning, hopefully can get them hardened off this week.---tom
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Nice looking bunch you've got there. How many total?

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108 tomatoes and 63 peppers.
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Yikes! How many do you keep? I grew about the same number of toms, but I'm planting 67 and the rest go to family & friends.

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only about 9 toms lol and 3 peppers, the rest i give away, lol said i wasn't going to do it again but i did, last year i had 14 plants in RGGS and was a bit too crowded , so going with 8 and 1 in ground. can't help it if i get 99.9 % germination, and can't toss any out! lol---tom
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9 and 3, out of 108 & 63! What will you do with the rest? Do you have homes for them? I start tomato plants for family & friends.

One year I took extras to a food bank, with instructions on how to grow the plants. They all got taken.

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yes the neighbors get a few, along with kids and my sister, then i bring all the rest to the U.P. of Mi. for people up there, might even have a space to plant more for me up there, they said they would watch them while i wasn't there, (think that means , they'll eat them for me! )---lol -tom
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Yes, "watchers" do get fringe benefits! That's one way to get to grow more plants- give to others & you at least get to taste them, decide if you like it well enough to grow it yourself. What varieties of tomato do you have?

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You are worse then me! I kept 50 out of 250. Last year I said I was not going to keep all those extras. Bit it is so difficult to throw out small plants.
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You are worse then me! I kept 50 out of 250. Last year I said I was not going to keep all those extras. Bit it is so difficult to throw out small plants.

I have trouble throwing out any. For example, I had a helmet head and I pulled the head off. Rather than throw it away, I decided to see what would happen. After many days, voila! leaves began to appear and then more. My question was answered and my patience rewarded. It's also a volunteer.

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I know exactly what you mean. I'll provide several friends and neighbors of tomato and pepper plants. Next year I 'll do better... I hope
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here's a list of types i grew and the number i ended up with lol, orange russian 117 did'nt germinate this year last year had a great harvest of them, lol---tom (colored #'s are ones other people want and how many so far)
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A good looking list. But you're gonna have a lot left over for the food bank or a community garden, or something. Clearly, you need to enlarge your garden.

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