Tomato Seedings Transplanted for 2018/2019
After a long hiatus, I decided to start growing tomatoes again. Today I transplanted tomato seedlings for the summer season of 2018/2019. I had enough seedlings for two garden beds. I put 21 seedlings in bed #5, and 13 seedlings in bed #4. I also put 4 seedlings in pots.
Here's a rough plan of the tomato plants in garden bed #5 (refer map):
[South]
[East] [West]
[North]
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| {Mandarine Tree} |
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| {Persimmon Tree} |
Row E | E1 E2 E3 |
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Row D | D1 D2 D3 D4 |
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Row C | C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 |
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Row B | B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 |
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Row A | A1 A2 A3 A4 |
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| {Lemon Tree} |
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| Variety | Location(s) |
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| Mystery medium-sized | A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, B2, B3, B4, C1, C2, C3, D1, D2, D3, E1, E2, E3 |
| Tiny Tim | B5, C4, C5, D4 |
Here's a rough plan of the tomato plants in garden bed #4 (refer map):
[South]
[East] [West]
[North]
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| { rockmelon plants } |
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| { s i l v e r b e e t p l a n t s } |
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Row D | D1 { s i l v e r b e e t p l a n t s } |
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Row C | C1 C2 C3 { silverbeet plants } |
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Row B | B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 |
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Row A | A1 A2 A3 |
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| Variety | Location(s) |
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| Mystery medium-sized | A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, C2, C3 |
| Tiny Tim | C1, D1 |
All tomato seedlings grew from seeds purchased from a large supermarket. The pack said they were "Tiny Tim" seeds, but it was obvious that the majority of the seedlings that developed were of a very different variety. These "mystery" seedlings grew bigger than the actual Tiny Tim seedlings, and the fruit they ultimately produced was of a medium-sized, round-shaped variety. Not that I'm complaining, since I actually didn't want to grow only cherry tomatoes, but had to settle for the only seeds available at the time. I guess I got lucky :)
Elsewhere in my garden I planted silverbeet, parsley and basil. Also, rockmelon seedlings emerged by themselves from rockmelon scraps thrown into compost.