Comments on: Have you seen my lost tomato names? If so please call, I miss them.

By: Kae

Kae — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:05:24 +0000

The labeling used to make me crazy. Every year, I came up with a new identifying-scheme, every year my cats (or dog, or husband, or my own clumsy feet) would find a way to knock AT LEAST one flat of seedling helter-skelter around the seedling table. This year a sort of Zen serenity came over me as I came up the stairs, around the corner and into the FEMA like zone that is the garden-starting table.

In a couple of weeks, I may be able to distinguish the peppers from the tomatoes… a couple of weeks after that, maybe the cherries from the beefsteak… certainly by the time they’re ready to go outside, I’ll have SOME idea of what goes where…

By: Ginger

Ginger — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:56:25 +0000

Hanna,
Sorry this happened to you!

My yellow cherry tomato seedlings you sent last fall are coming up!!! I am so excited! Thanks again!

By: Jean Ann

Jean Ann — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:08:50 +0000

Man, I hate it when that happens…at least you know they are tomatoes…I do have a spreadsheet running this year and I have taped the names to the seedling trays…AND I don’t start more than one kind of the same plant in the same tray…we will see if that works.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:18:57 +0000

I did the same thing with daylilies once. Got 20 named varieties of daylilies. Planted them in a nursery bed, shortest in front. Drew a map and marked where each one was, then took off their tags. Lost the map. Now I know what each looks like, and have moved them to various parts of the garden, and they are known as Row 1, Row 2 etc. because I could figure out which row I must have put them in because of their heights.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:49:57 +0000

I loved your flower quiz…but not sure I like being a canna!