Early Girls are a great early, prolific tomato for MI. Rutgers are another good one. For your roma tomato paste plants I add a bit of crushed lime and fertilizer for flowers into the hole, mix in the soil in the hole, then plant, and water well to settle in. The yellow cherry pear tomato is great for treats and color. Have you had them before? I love their mild salty sweet favor. Cathryn
Eric,
Eric,
The only Heirlooms I purchased seeds for were Brandywine.... Oh YUM!
But I purchased several varieties as seedlings from an organic farmer at our local farmer's market. Red and yellow and purplish cherry tomatoes, and a beefsteak type, but the beefsteak didn't do well. The other one I tried that didn't do well was a San Marzano plum tomato. I would really love to find one of those which had a short enough growing season for here in Mid-Michigan.
I would also like to find a "sweet million" cherry tomato seed which is NOT treated. Anyone know where to get those?
Our 4 varieties of cucumbers did well, but the english cukes were insanely productive. They grew like zuchinni, so quickly that if we didn't pick every day they'd get too big that we'd just feed them to our chickens and horses. The only variety which didn';t go crazy was our pickle plants. I'll do more of those this year, as i like them fresh as well as pickled. I tried (dill) pickling some of the larger varieties and they end up not crisp enough for my taste using traditional canning methods.
--Shelley
Mid Michigan
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