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All the snow that Washington DC didn’t get at the end of the week ended up here in lovely New England, ten to twelve heavey wet inches of it right on top of our little homestead. The good part is, this being March, quite a lot of it melted away on Saturday; the less good, the weight of the snowmelt took down part of the back porch roof to make itself a convenient drainage funnel. The Spousal Unit is eyeing a complicated extruded-plastic & aluminium-post “system” to replace the roof, and I can only hope that the installation won’t require opening up the side of the fence where I’ve established my tomato planters. Or at least that, when it does, the whole mess will be out of the way before the second half of May, when the plants I’ve ordered from three different sources arrive…
This year’s list, representing the usual mix of old favorites and novelties(*) :
Red: Anna Russian*, Bear Claw*, Carmello, Kobe Beefsteak*, Marianna’s Peace*, Momotaro, Rose de Berne, Sainte Lucie*, Stupice
Yellow: Garden Peach, Kellogg’s Breakfast, Pineapple
Black: Black Krim, Black Prince, Cherokee Chocolate, Cherokee Purple, Chocolate Amazon*, Chocolate Stripes, Japanese Trifele, Paul Robeson, Pink Berkeley Tie Die*, Sara Black
Paste: Goldman’s Italian-American* (since I couldn’t find Opalkas)
Cherry: Black Cherry, Blondkopfchen*, Gold Nugget, Golden Sweet, Isis Candy, Peacevine*, Sungold, Sweet Hearts, Sweet Pea*, White Currant
I know some of you have started your seedlings already, and you Southerners are probably looking at planting out your beds. So — what’s going on in your gardens now?
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