Garlic, lettuce, kale and collards - my winter garden
Before I get into the next in my series of garden reviews (which will be Indeterminate Tomatoes from the 2020 garden, part 3), here are a few important news items.
Please consider trying one of the Seed Collection Experiences this year! I am very excited to have been asked by Seedlinked to select three different tomato collections for you to purchase and participate in. Follow the link to find out more - the collections are listed as well as a full description of the background, benefits and process. You can choose to grow three slicing tomatoes, three paste type tomatoes, or three cherry tomatoes, all of which were chosen by me for reasons explained in each collection. I spent some time talking through this fun opportunity on my most recent Instagram Live (you can find it by looking at my Instagram page and checking the latest video on my IG TV page - my user name there is @nctomatoman).
Victory Seeds is in the process of listing our latest set of Dwarf Tomato Project releases. I’ve still got to get the OSSI paperwork completed. Among those listings are a few really nice striped hearts and the first of our variegated varieties. Check out the page at the link - please let me know if you took part in one of the new offerings but I forgot to provide your name to Mike Dunton as a contributor; that can be quickly remedied.
By the way, I’ve finally gotten around to entering the returned seed samples from many of you into my numbering system. If you’ve sent me seeds, thank you so much. I’ve received seeds from Tonya Pepper, Deborah Loeb, Karen Rexrode, Gwen Galvin, Deb Kennedy, John Cook, Charlie Hughes, Sara Smith, Tom Martucci, Debra Suran, Marcia Dillon, Geny Laroche, Heide Dolan, Marcia Eisenberg, Maurice Fasenfest, Cindy Taczak, Darrel Jones, Gene McCall, Kevin Campbell and Bill Minkey - that’s 20 of you! If you have seeds from our project that you’ve yet to send, please do so. If you’ve sent seeds and are not listed among the 20 names, please let me know and I will search the boxes where incoming mail ends up. I will probably be contacting a few of you for a bit more information.
Marlin and Koda enjoying a frolic during an October hike on the Daniels Ridge trail in Pisgah Forest