Saturday, February 28, 2015

Some more notes and thoughts

Looks like I will only plant about 10 of the varieties from last year.  I should put down lots of tarp - and early - it's totally worth it.

Here is my list to plant this year.

Black Cherry, Cherokee Purple, Costoluto Genovese, Flamme, Green Zebra, Hawaiian Currant, Indigo Rose, Kellog's Breakfast, Mortgage Lifter, Orange Slicer, Super Sauce, and the CPxIR hybrid seeds. = 12 varieties.

CPxIR hybrids: Plant them all as I'm not sure if these will germinate well - since I harvested these myself.

I plan to sow these next Saturday March 7 2015.


  Var.                    Sow     3" Pots      Garden
BC  4 3 2
CP   10 9 8
CG 8 7 6
FL   4 3 2
GZ 6 5 4
HC 4 3 2
IR   10 9 8
KB   8 7 6
ML   12 9 8
OS   10 7 6
SS     10 9 8
totals 86 71 60

And also, CPxIR, sow 12+ seeds.
It's OK to sometimes plant 2 seeds in single seedling pots at sowing stage.  e.g. For ML if goal is to have 8 live plants in garden, sow 12 seeds across 8 seedling pots so some will be doubled up. Helps ensure the numbers will be maintained at the transplant stage.

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