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TorontoJoe

TorontoJoe

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Despite mostly just ordering seeds for things like greens that are difficult to save from plants grown indoors, I still enjoy browsing through volumes of seed erotica... if only to see what's out there.

Johnny's has these two lettuces, Red Butter and Green Butter that look really good.

Vessys has Honeycrisp apple trees, which I'm wanting very much... I'm Hoping a micro dwarf shows up....

What exciting stuff are you all getting for this spring?

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Not adding anything too crazy from what we usually grow here, but found a few new favorites from our local CSA. We are going to grow some shishito peppers and delicata squash that we enjoyed from local farms this summer. We are also adding a new variety of eggplant we’ve been wanting to try (Ping Tung). Any favorites anyone else growing again or new trials?
 
The Fig Chronicles said:
Not adding anything too crazy from what we usually grow here, but found a few new favorites from our local CSA. We are going to grow some shishito peppers and delicata squash that we enjoyed from local farms this summer. We are also adding a new variety of eggplant we’ve been wanting to try (Ping Tung). Any favorites anyone else growing again or new trials?
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I've yet to find an eggplant that produces well for me here.
 
TorontoJoe said:
I've yet to find an eggplant that produces well for me here.
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The last few years we’ve had bad luck. The variety we’ve had the best luck with in the past here is Fairy Tale, but honestly most of the time we end up buying from local markets. We didn’t grow any last year and the local farms didn’t really didn’t have much available so going back to the drawing board to see what other varieties we might try our luck with again.
 
The Fig Chronicles said:
The last few years we’ve had bad luck. The variety we’ve had the best luck with in the past here is Fairy Tale, but honestly most of the time we end up buying from local markets. We didn’t grow any last year and the local farms didn’t really didn’t have much available so going back to the drawing board to see what other varieties we might try our luck with again.
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I hear you. I don’t know why they’re so finicky
 
SpiritFarmVa said:
Have you started eggplants early indoors ? And they still don’t produce?
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I have and still get very meagre results. One, maybe two fruit and always puny. I've done in beds, containers... heavy feeding, light feeding. Nothing seems to work. I don't know what the market growers are doing.
 
TorontoJoe said:
I have and still get very meagre results. One, maybe two fruit and always puny. I've done in beds, containers... heavy feeding, light feeding. Nothing seems to work. I don't know what the market growers are doing.
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I assume you have tried the shortest season varieties too.
 
We are no experts in eggplant, the flea beetles destroy ours but we still get some fruits. Maybe it’s a temperature issue. Like peppers and growing better in high heat. How big do you get your transplants before they go outside?
 
SpiritFarmVa said:
We are no experts in eggplant, the flea beetles destroy ours but we still get some fruits. Maybe it’s a temperature issue. Like peppers and growing better in high heat. How big do you get your transplants before they go outside?
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Peppers grow quite well here providing I can keep the pests off the sweet ones. I typically start seeds six or eight weeks out before planting. Maybe you’re onto something here. Perhaps I should try larger plants and burying them deeper
 
TorontoJoe said:
Peppers grow quite well here providing I can keep the pests off the sweet ones. I typically start seeds six or eight weeks out before planting. Maybe you’re onto something here. Perhaps I should try larger plants and burying them deeper
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I’d say try a foot tall and gallon sized pot. It’s a guess but it’s where I’d start. I am going to look in the market gardener since jm fortier is up by you.
 
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