Seeds arrived today!

[sazemisery]

Painted lady runner beans(food for me and the hummingbirds and butterflies), yin yang beans, black pearl soybeans, sunburst patty pan squash, delicata squash. My okra is germinating as we speak. I saw many little tops popping out this morning. My heirloom tomato plants will arrive with my coop order on the 19th.

I plan to spend Friday the 13th planting.

Sounds like the beginning of a Stephen King novel.

[BOSSHOG]

1. I got some Brandywine Heirloom Tomato Seeds.

About two days more of hardening off before I plant them. What kind of heirlooms are you getting? Okra and eight-ball Squash are up (they are supposed to harvest in 35 days.) I'm looking forward to that. I also have cayenne and jalapeno pepper seeds yet to plant. Its a great time of year.

Plant of Friday the 13th and Harvest on Halloween.

[sazemisery]

2. I'm trying some special ones this year

Purple Calabash
Pink Accordion
Delicious (yellow large early)

[Kolesar]

3. I bought a Brandywine tomato start on the advice of someone on DU/Gardening

It yielded a dozen or more tomatoes and they were delicious! I got them "mixed up" with my bush tomato fruits and lost track of how many we picked.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Thanks very much

They are just about an inch out of the soil right now and I will give them over to mother nature soon. I hope they are the real thing. I was reading that a lot of tomatoes are called brandywine's but there is only one true one. Were your's a mix of red and green color? I also got some Creole Tomato Plants, which are really very tasty. I'm a tomato eating fool, but I don't have the green thumbs my Dad had. His gardens were always awesome. Mine ain't bad but pales in comparison to his masterpieces.

[Kolesar]

5. Our tomatos had no red/green coloration

So I don't know if they are the real deal. My big experiment for this year will be "Stupice" early tomatos. Tomatos are a warm weather plant, but there are varieties that are genetically-selected to grow in chilly spring weather. And it is chilly in my town in May. ( I think I wrote this up in another thread).

So I have to ask the tomato-fool, have you ever grown tomatos with natural mellowing agents?

Tomato 'Peacevine'

Description:
Prolific producer of 2 cm red, round, amazing zippy tasting fruit. Found to produce 'gamma amino butyric acid' a natural sedative hence its name 'Peacevine'. So have your moment of Zen, as if sitting in the garden eating vine ripe cherry tomatoes wasn't tranquil enough! Staking vine type (indeterminate).

http://www.plantexplorers.com/twiningvine/product_info.php/cPath/42/products_id/668