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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

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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. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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