Enough about moving, hikes, podcasts, seed sending - it’s time to talk about what this 2020 season may (key word there) end up looking like. Certainly comes when seeds get planted - and as I sit here tonight typing, one flat is germinating well, another was just seeded. One more flat remains to be planted; that will happen over the next few days.

Flat 1 contains peppers from my Islander dehybridization work, eggplants from Orient Express dehybridization, and indeterminate tomatoes. I am growing lots of my favorites - the three Cherokees, Polish, Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom, Green Giant, Lucky Cross, Sun Gold (of course), Egg Yolk, Mexico Midget. Joining them are a bit of this and that - the new F1 hybrids for the Dwarf Tomato Project, some interesting volunteers that showed up in my garden last year, and much more.

Flat 2 have a few indeterminate varieties I couldn’t squeeze into flat 1, but it is mostly about Dwarf Tomato Project works in progress and some of my favorite releases, as well as many of the newly released varieties now listed at Victory Seed Company. I’ll go deeper into full variety lists for each flat over time.

Growing seedlings is one thing…what to do with them is quite another when one has a completely new garden space. There is simply no way I will be able to grow out everything I am starting. That means there will be seedling sales in Hendersonville - details and timing are yet to be determined.

One exciting possibility is use of some greenhouse space quite close to our home. If that happens, the Dwarf Tomato Project could be locally super charged. That’s all I will say about it at the moment…stay tuned.

It promises to be a really interesting season - and a complicated one - no matter what I grow, or where/how I grow it.

It’s complicated! This is what cataloging seeds, sorting through garden communications, and planting seeds all happening at once looks like.