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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 06:42:17 pm

When I left for work this morning I took my tomato and pumpkin seedlings on their first outdoor field trip.

And then like a bad parent I left them there. I hope they don't go play in the street. At least they won't raid the fridge anymore.

It's all part of my hardening off plan. When I get home tonight I'll bring them in before the night kills them off. This weekend I'll probably plant them. Foolish, you say? We'll see...

The photo shows my bathroom greenhouse which has been quite successful. In addition to Momotaro tomatoes I'm growing three types of pumpkins: small sugar (Territorial Seed Co.), French cinderella (Ed Hume) and Wyatt's Wonder (Territorial).

Wyatt's is reported to reach 200 lbs. Not exactly Puyallup Fair material but definitely worthy of the Freak of Nature garden.

Categories: Tomatoes, Vegetables