Today we finally plant the classics: hot peppers & tomatoes.
This video was posted about a week after we actually planted, in case you live in zone 6 and are trying to time out your planting schedule. Our peppers are honestly looking great, but some of our tomatoes are just sad due to bad genetics. I mean bad genetics from the seed packet, to seed saving last year. I’m not sure what happened but we’ll be adjusting what we grow next year.
Greg and I talk about what ‘makes sense to do’ a lot. When it comes to the garden, what makes sense is to try a lot of varieties and then narrow it down to our favorites. We are definitely there with our peppers (you’ll see our 2 fave in the video), absolutely with the green beans/corn/potatoes, and we’re almost there with the tomatoes.
It’s tough with tomatoes because there are a lot of really great varieties. What I’m struggling to still find is just a solid, medium sized, red tomato. I’d grow Sicilian Saucers all day long, but they are huge so you don’t get as much per plant as you do with the smaller tomato types that produce more on each vine. We were hoping the Costoluto Genovese would be that answer, but they are just too small and don’t grow a lot per vine. We’ll keep looking! If I can’t find anything, I’ll just grow a bunch of Sicilian Saucers and call it a day next year.
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