This year I decide that I want to harvest tomatoes in June so I start my seeds early on February 6-9. The days I start my seeds were lovely and sunny and warm. December and January we had very good warm weather also and I wanted to start my tomatoes before Christmas to be honest. But I was waiting to see what will happen the next months and finally I have sown the seeds in February
So… I sow my seeds with the same way as usually. Outside with clear plastic cover. The first days the sun love my seeds everyday. But one day… the sky was open as we said in my language. Rain, Storm, Wind, Crazy weather. I was afraid for my seeds so I decide to take the seeds inside.
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It was not something I had in my mind to write about but I read this question in my stats and I think that is important to write a post about this.
The answer is no. No we don’t have genetically modified tomatoes in Greece. We have many tomato hybrids but not GM.
To be correct I will give you a link from Greek Greenpeace. You can translate it easily with google translate if you want.
As they wrote in their post, they found some experimental cultivation of GM tomatoes in Greece in 1997 and they start a campaign to stop it.
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When I was in plot my tomato plants were bigger and some of them full of green tomatoes. I am sure I will eat tomatoes when I will go there again in July if the plants survive without watering.
Orange Banana tomato is one of my favorite varieties until now.
Silvery Fir tomato with its strange leaves had many tomatoes in every plant. The tomatoes are in the middle of the plant 10 cm above the soil. It was difficult to tie up the branches but ok this is my problem only because I late to tie up my tomato plants.
Yellow-Taxi tomato. This year I was lucky and I have 2 plants! It was my last seeds and this variety has its story in my garden because I had seen this tomato in Patrick’s blog 2 years before and he ask me if I wanted seeds. I said yes and after Patrick ask me if I wanted other seeds also and he send me 4-5 seeds from many colorful tomato varieties. So for me, it’s a special tomato for this reason.
Well that’s the photos I have this moment. The good part is that this year I grow some new heirloom varieties so I will grow my small seed bank also.
And finally we have tomatoes in my city garden. They are so small and I have no idea about the variety this moment. I will know the variety when they ripen.
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This year I had more tomato seedlings. It’s different when you have save seeds because you can sow as many as you want for free if you have enough space around.
Personally I need many plants because I can’t watering my tomatoes, so they will be survive the strongest of them. I sow many cherry tomatoes because they grow easier without watering.
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