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I am trying a few new (for me) things this year, and I have a few basic plant 
questions that I hope the collective wisdom of this listserv can help me with.

I would like to plant a cherry tomato plant this year. I have noticed that 
none of the cherry tomato varieties mention anything about disease resistance 
(VFN marks). I found one that just said "disease resistant". Several say F1 
Hybrid, is this a disease resistant marking ? Where can I find this info ?

In the Square Foot Gardening book, I see no specific mention of the Cherry 
Tomato. Should I space similarly to regular tomatoes ? Are there both 
determinate and indeterminate types ? How do I determine which kind I have ? 
Do I pinch back all but the main vine like with regular tomatoes ?

I am also thinking about growing some celery. The book does not mention it at 
all, so I am curious about spacing. I can not find seeds anywhere in my area. 
This makes me wonder whether I can grow celery at all in inland S. California. 
where I live. My Western Garden book mentions that Celery can grow in my 
zone. Any ideas ?

I decided this year to try planting cantaloupe, and so I decided to pre-sprout
the seeds in a small container with a very wet paper towel. These cantaloupe
seeds have been sitting there for almost 3 weeks now and have shown no sign
of germinating yet.  They are sitting in a dark area in a temp range of 65-75F.
The seeds are newly purchased and are dated for spring/summer '98. Do I need to 
do something special to get these seeds to sprout ?

Corn. The only space I can make available for Corn is about 2'x3'. I don't
believe I can plant enough corn there to get decent cross pollenization. I
have had back luck with hand-pollinating, mainly because I don't get up
early enough to do it before the pollen drys up each day (I am not a 
crack of dawn kind of person). Now I see from the plant-spacing web
page that the spacing has been revised to 4/sq-ft. With 4 times as much corn,
maybe it would have a chance in this small plot. Anybody care to comment ?

Jordan

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