RE: Gardening 2001

Thanks for your input, as well as Albert's. Al, I'm trying heirloom
pepperoncino this year and last year grew Robustini, a hybrid, 6 plants
in 6 square feet, and must've had well over 500 peppers. As for the
Aconcagua, I remember wanting them a few years back but couldn't find a
distributor that had everything else I was looking for so never ordered.
I remember that is is very large, sometimes irregular/curled/etc.

As for the Pruden's Purple, I grew it last year without great results.
The potato leaves were a great place for green aphids to hide. While
they tasted good, I had a lot of uneven ripening and much were cracked
radially around the top; it was hard giving away great tasting tomatoes
to friends & relatives--the cracks scared them away. Maybe because of
all the rain we had last year; this year, I'm thinking of making some
kind of clear awnings to protect from overhead rain. (I use drip
irrigation.) I did have good success with Bonny Best, but the tomato
that was the greatest producer & taster for me was SunGold. The taste
made it the only variety that rarely made it out of the yard & into the
house--ate more in the garden than I brought inside! Sun Sugar actually
replaces SunGold this year as an improvement on SunGold.

Out of the list of tomatoes, about 15 or 16 I grew over the past couple
years. Opalka I seen pics of and it is MASSIVE for a paste-type. Rio
Grande I read out-produces Roma 2-3x, larger, and 4 quarts per plant.
These are being grown for the first time as are many of the
heirloom/"nationality" varieties (polish, chech, russian, bulgarian,
etc) This is also my first year growing Apple, Boldog, Purple Cayenne &
Peter Pepper, as well as Dill's Atlantic Giant pumpkins.

Thanks for any input; comments always welcome.
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Lauterbach [m*@micron.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 9:57 AM
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
Subject: RE: Gardening 2001


I don't know where you live, but I live in Idaho, and have grown several
of
your varieties of tomato and pepper. Some are said to do well in the
eastern U.S., but they don't do much in the West.  Pruden's Purple is
one
of the most underrated tomatoes in existence, in my NSHO. Druzba is a
great
tomato, great flavor and appearance, and is produced abundantly.  Also
abundant is Opalka, a fine tomato.  Bonny Best is a reliable old tomato,
previously called John Baer.  You could toss out your Roma seeds and not
miss a thing.  Same with your Apple pepper.  If you want a good crisp
sweet
apple-flavored pepper for salads, grow Aconcagua.  Have fun, Margaret L

At 08:21 PM 3/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
>You wanted to know what new will be growing this year? here's a list of
>my seeds I bought, butI won't have enough room for everything, I will
>have to be selective with varieties & narrow them down some more:
>
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