Comments on: Tomato order 2008

By: Arzeena Hamir

Arzeena Hamir — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:13:09 +0000

Andrea – if you’re into heirloom seeds, check out Seedy Saturday coming up on Feb 23rd here in Vancouver. All the small seed companies (including Salt Spring Seeds) will be in one room.

The event happens all over the province and now all across the country. More details should be posted at http://www.seedysaturday.com

This year’s event even has short workshops on seed starting.

By: Andrea Bellamy

Andrea Bellamy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:11:51 +0000

A greenhouse certainly does help, although I suppose you could try it on a sunny windowsill, too. Good luck with your tomatoes this year, Marie!

By: Marie Hadley

Marie Hadley — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:03:22 +0000

I’ve never tried growing tomato’s from seed, no greenhouse available. Last year I bought some beautiful plants from the Oriental Nursery by my house but either the sun wasn’t hot enough or I put them out too soon. (Early April) the plants grew like gangbusters but it was so late in August when they staerted fruiting that it got cold before they got ripe. I did have luck with one that was a little yellow pear tomato, yum! I’ll try again this year, i hope I can find a Green Zebra plant, those are delish! I’ll wait till May to put them in the gound this year too.

By: Andrea Bellamy

Andrea Bellamy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:24:30 +0000

Kate- don’t you love the names? I partially ordered the “mortgage lifter” because, well, I could use a little help in that department!

By: kate

kate — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:14:56 +0000

I like the way your family all has their tasks to perform – great system! The names of some of those tomatoes are hilarious.

I will check out Salt Spring Seeds … it sounds as if they are a good place. I also like ordering seeds from Gardens North, in North Gower ON.

Off to Salt Spring Seeds … the Green Zebra tomatoes are beautiful.