Sunday, May 1, 2011

Box: Check! Dirt: Check! On to seeds!

With the box primed and ready for planting, I needed to gather my seeds. My coworker was happy to donate to the cause and let me pick through his seed supply. Even so, I still needed to pick up some new seeds, and some transplants. I have heard of a store called IFA, and it seemed to be a well respected garden store, so I took the family and went to the one in American Fork.

I was both impressed and underwhelmed at the same time. They definitely had a lot of garden and farm related stuff, but when it came down to it, they didn't seem to have any more variety of seeds and things than Lowe's or Home Depot. I perused the seed packet racks and found my seeds (only had to ask for help once!), but then it came time to get the transplants. Knowing my totally ignorance on tomatoes, I decided to 'ask the experts'. However, the people behind the counter were teenage kids, with likely no more gardening experience than I had. I asked anyways, telling them that I barely know a tomato from a hole in the ground, and they called for back up.

The man who came from the back knew more, but upon stating my desire to grow vine tomatoes in a single square foot using a trellis, he quickly said 'well lets just google it!' Any time someone says that it just makes you feel dumb. "Yea, I could have done that at my house!" But,
his search actually didn't produce much on what variety of tomatoes I should grown on my trellis. However, a nice lady happen to overhear my questions and said that any 'indeterminate' variety of tomato should do just fine growing on a trellis.

So now that I know I should be safe with any indeterminate tomato, I just have to figure out which ones are indeterminate and are sold as transplants by the local garden stores! Cake walk....


No comments:

Post a Comment