The Endzone Garden Thread

#430
#430
I had to re-seed alot. Outside of tomato plants, I do pretty much everything from seed. But, I've got a collection of tomato seeds now for the next couple years and will start them myself for a bit and see how that goes. Only thing that came up was corn and sunflower. And two squash. So i puled my seed back out and soaked it for two days between paper towels and re-planted green beans, baby lima, squash, green peas, bell pepper, okra, watermelon and cantelope. I didn't watch the weather report, and right after I planted, we had torrential rains and cold for a week. I guess that got them. My only concern is I didn't soak everything long enough for them to pop open. I also added black eye peas. A must for me I have never grown but love them alot is butter peas. No one has them dried. Only one store has them frozen. So I ordered them off Amazon. The proper way to eat butter peas (not butter beans) is with a little mayo and a sweet red pepper relish and pepper. I also use summer squash relish. I also ordered some White Acre Pea seed. Not an every day southern delicacy you see often. Will germinate and plug those when they come in next week.
 
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#431
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The grow light is working beautifully so I'm gonna start some other stuff under it that I've had a hard time growing in the past. Just ordered this today. With the one Ive already got I should be set up perfect to start what I plan on.

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#432
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I ordered my tomatoes this year again from heirloomtomatoplants.com. Hadn't ordered there in a couple years cause the mennonite place here has increased their offering of heirloom varieties. Then i ordered some more heirloom seed to put back for next year.

I'm growing:
Anthony's Passionate Heart (Struggling aa bit buy blooming)
Sneaky Sauce Dwarf
Ananas Noir
Brad's Atomic Grape
Firebird Sweet Dwarf

Seeds for starting:
San Marzano Redorta
1884
Thorburn's Terra Cotta
Dwarf Velvet Night Cherry
Costoluto Genovese
Maybe some others
 
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Behr said:
The grow light is working beautifully so I'm gonna start some other stuff under it that I've had a hard time growing in the past. Just ordered this today. With the one Ive already got I should be set up perfect to start what I plan on.

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Bwah hah hah. First step on the slippery slope to five zillion seedlings taking over the house! 🌱🌱🌱
 
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#434
I never had any luck with tarragon or cilantro from seed. I also think I'm going to bring a few of my tomato seedlings inside and out under the light just to see what happens. The lamp is a clip on so I'm in good shape for them getting tall.

Things like tomatoes that "require Full sun 6-8 hours don't mean Ft.Myers full sun 6-8 hours. They just get beat up. I think that's been part of the problem with everything I've tried growing.

Of course it's possible that I just suck at it.

Just another project that hasn't been expensive yet and I'm enjoying learning a little something new.
 
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One thing I read about tarragon (you might have a chef angle on this) is that you pretty much can’t grow French tarragon from seed; only Mexican and Russian, which aren’t culinary tarragon. I bought a small plant a few months ago, and it’s a REALLY slow grower. But amazing fragrance and taste.
 
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VolNExile said:
One thing I read about tarragon (you might have a chef angle on this) is that you pretty much can’t grow French tarragon from seed; only Mexican and Russian, which aren’t culinary tarragon. I bought a small plant a few months ago, and it’s a REALLY slow grower. But amazing fragrance and taste.
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Got no angle you cant grow French from seed I've only tried Russian and it's not as strong, but it's good. But I can't grow that crap either. I've tried French plants. They die. I try Russian seeds and plants. They die. I'd try Mexican but they suck. Lol, just got knocked up side the head. Seriously, it's always been a pain in my butt.
 
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Behr said:
I never had any luck with tarragon or cilantro from seed. I also think I'm going to bring a few of my tomato seedlings inside and out under the light just to see what happens. The lamp is a clip on so I'm in good shape for them getting tall.

Things like tomatoes that "require Full sun 6-8 hours don't mean Ft.Myers full sun 6-8 hours. They just get beat up. I think that's been part of the problem with everything I've tried growing.

Of course it's possible that I just suck at it.

Just another project that hasn't been expensive yet and I'm enjoying learning a little something new.
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Alot of varieties will not produce in high heat. Have you tried Florida 91 Hybrid? It's supposed to kick them out on into the upper 90's. Google heat tolerant tomatoes.

Think I just read recently cilantro is a cool weather crop. I've always planted for summer and got no where. Gave up on it.
 
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#440
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GVF said:
Alot of varieties will not produce in high heat. Have you tried Florida 91 Hybrid? It's supposed to kick them out on into the upper 90's. Google heat tolerant tomatoes.

Think I just read recently cilantro is a cool weather crop. I've always planted for summer and got no where. Gave up on it.
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No I haven't tried or looked into that. I have to use containers so I tried moving them around and it's just a pain in the butt.

Yeah, I tried growing cilantro in October and it just never did well. Summer or fall. Pretty sure it's just me. But I'mma try it indoors under a grow light. Boon. Good as done!
 
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GVF said:
Alot of varieties will not produce in high heat. Have you tried Florida 91 Hybrid? It's supposed to kick them out on into the upper 90's. Google heat tolerant tomatoes.

Think I just read recently cilantro is a cool weather crop. I've always planted for summer and got no where. Gave up on it.
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Since it's a main mexican spice I always thought hot weather too and it always lasted about 2 weeks and kicked the bucket.
 
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