Week 11 - Planting

We we prepared some small pots of seed compost, and sowed 6 different varieties of tomatoes, 6-8 seeds in each pot:

• Stupice Tomato - early ripening variety with abundant medium size tangy red fruit, grows and ripens well outdoors
• Brandywine Tomato - an Amish heritage variety with large pink fruits that are late maturing
• Gardeners Delight - red cherry variety with abundant long trusses, suitable for indoor or outdoor use
• Matina - very early cropping, medium sized bright red variety with a delicious taste
• Golden Peacevine - a variety with long sprays of small sweet golden plumb shaped tomatoes, fairly productive outdoors
• San Marzano - red plum variety for cooking and bottling, best grown under cover

Each of these tomatoes is a cordon variety (tall) and will be potted up in to larger separate pots later in the spring.

We also planted two pots with onion seeds, approximately 60 seeds in each pot:

• Baun Onion - a large, white, strong bulb excellent keeping variety
• James Long Keeping Onion - an old english variety, with medium sized reddish brown bulb

All of the pots were covered with plastic to keep in the moisture until they germinated and were put on a sunny windowsill.