Arnorrian's tomato pictures

[MissS]

Your fruits and flowers are just beautiful. You sure do have a green thumb. I hope that your cross tastes as good as it produces.

[arnorrian]

Tomato line I'm experimenting with, result of two consecutive accidental crosses. Sizes in proportion. Two known ancestors are Jasmin and Tiger Blush.

[Whwoz]

Some beautiful fruit there to keep seed from @arnorrian , how many lines are you going to take forward. Do they taste any good?

[arnorrian]

Some beautiful fruit there to keep seed from @arnorrian , how many lines are you going to take forward. Do they taste any good?

They taste quite good. I think I'll continue with the largest one. I don't have room to continue with more than one.

[bower]

A beautiful family picture!

[arnorrian]

Cardinal basil.

[Ella NJ]

That basil can be part of a flower bad.

[worth1]

I love that basil.

[arnorrian]

I got the seeds from Baker Creek.

[MissS]

@arnorrian how is the flavor on this lovely looking basil?

[arnorrian]

@MissS
I use it in tomato salads, quite nice. I think it's a variety of Thai basil.

[arnorrian]

All the seeds I ordered arrived, and I'm amassing colorless PET bottles for winter sowing. I got:

Agastache (Apache Sunset, Arizona Sun, Golden Jubilee, Apricot Sprite)
Asclepias speciosa
Asclepias tuberosa
Asclepias incarnata
Coreopsis Incredible Tall mix
Lysimachia punctata
Penstemon hartwegii
Verbena bonariensis
Echinacea purpurea
Echinacea Red in Shades
Achillea millefolium Pastel mix
Eryngium

And collected Rudbeckia and Gaillardia by myself. I'll be starting some inside under grow lights too, along with tomatoes, aubergines, and chili.

I also got several varieties of Zinnia, Chinese Aster, Ricinus, Cosmos, and clary sage for sowing in the spring.

[MissS]

Those are some very nice varieties. It should be a beautiful garden. Lysimachia punctata was one of my mother's favorites. I grow it but it is not nearly as nice as hers were.

[arnorrian]

Thanks. I have no idea where to plant all that.

[MissS]

@arnorrian I'm sure that you will figure it out.

[arnorrian]

@arnorrian I'm sure that you will figure it out.

Volunteers to take off my hands any excess plants are already lining up.

[arnorrian]

So, I went a bit crazy, and ordered and collected a bit more seeds. All arrived, except the ones from Special Plants I ordered last. I started stratification already, but it's too warm for winter sowing.

[arnorrian]

I'm knackered. 70-plus water bottles (5-6 liter) cleaned, cut, poked, filled with potting mix, seeded, watered, labeled, taped.

[Ella NJ]

How are the seedlings doing?

[arnorrian]

How are the seedlings doing?

I'm sorry I haven't noticed your question sooner.

It's going quite good. Not all varieties germinated (like Lysimachia punctata and Eryngium Blue Star), and some refused to grow past germination (like Penstemon hartwegii and Lychnis chalcedonica Alba). And I started some seed just recently, as it took a shipment from England 61 day to get to me. I started hardening off the seedlings from the grow lights a couple of days ago. And winter sowing is so far mostly going good.