Tomatoes, Peppers & Eggplants...Oh My!

 Whenever I decide to do something, Bob says that I tend to go all in with it. Case in point would be starting tomatoes, peppers and eggplants from seed. I figure that I have the room, why not go for it? What's the worst case scenario? I'll be advertising my extra seedlings for sale on Facebook Marketplace. I'll be giving them away to friends. I already tried to talk my sister into taking some and she said no way. Final count on seedlings that have made it is 274 seedlings of 69 different varieties. I purposely planted some varieties heavy because I knew that they would be in high demand, like Prairie Fire.

I also have 39 varieties of peppers that made it and 10 varieties of eggplant. This is the very first year that I will have eggplant that survive from seed. Last year, I planted out around 50 varieties of peppers and the deer wiped them out overnight. Not this year. We got smart. We will be growing them in one of the greenhouses.

I have no method with the different colors of cups. They were just the cheapest ones I could find and they came in different colors.

They are lucky we're not fond of venison. If the truth be told, we think they're awesome and we don't mind them in the yard. We just devise ways around their nibbling nature to get a vegetable harvest. One of the things we do is toss carrots out in areas of our property that we don't mind them being in. A 25-pound bag of juicing carrots is like $10 at a restaurant supply store. It saves a lot of headaches.

Inokra Panigang is a Filipino pepper variety that I'm very excited to try.

Yes. We grow THAT, too.

This is a sweet pepper, bell style, variety that I got from Ukraine.

This is the only Black Hole Sun that I got to germinate. It's pretty healthy looking.

Heaven Oregon is the variety that I planted in honor of my friend, Conda Walsh, and her late husband, Steve. I hope to be able to send some seeds her way for next year so she can grow this variety.

Amy's Sugar Gem is the variety that I am growing to take the place of Isis Candy Cherry that I grew last year.

 
Wolverine is a sample pack that I received from an Etsy seller in Canada. It's a pretty striking looking tomato and I can't wait to see them on the vine.

So, my final pepper list for 2023 is 39 varieties:

Sugar Rush Peach
Blot
Peter Yellow
Elephant Ear
Erotica Orange
Corbaci
Sweet Ratunda
Ampuis
Black Square
Red Habanero
Ancho Poblano
Rainforest
King of the North
Korean Dark Green
Inokra Panigang
Gong Bao
Lesia Yellow
Greygo
Greek Pepperoncini
Peperone di Senise
Witch Stick
Jalora Jalapeno
Lemon Spice Jalapeno
Tabasco
Bridge To Paris
Coyote Teeth
Calabrian
Murasaki
Habanada
Lesya
Zapotec Jalapeno
Bohemian Baron
Pumpkin Spice Jalapeno
Hong Gochu
Tekni Dolmasi
Rezha Macedonia
Farmer Jalapeno
Chicago Sport
Peter Red

My eggplant list contains 10 varieties that made it through the transplant process:

Rosita
Violetta Luaga
Golub Sizokriliy
Louisiana Long Green
Antigua
Indoor Golden Eggs
Green Thai Frog Fingers
Laura
Pandora di Mazzarino
Casper

My tomatoes number 69 varieties. Those with an (*) by their name indicates a determinate or semi-determinate variety.

Phil's One
Phil's Two
Reisetomate
Prairie Fire
Taiga
Opalka
Stoney's Neighbor's
Pink Jazz
Maple Syrup
Cour di Bue Albenga
Queen of the Night
Mushroom Basket
Wolverine
Thorburn's Terra-Cotta
Orange Icicle
Korean Long
Indigo Blue Chocolate
Amy's Sugar Gem
Fleur de Reagar
Blue Zebra
Moonlight Mile
San Francisco Fog
Heaven Oregon
Julia Child
Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red
DB Cooper
Dolly Parton
Hippie Zebra
Black Hole Sun
Midnight Roma
Butter Apple
Red Dumplin Winner Pink
Polish Nights
Cote d'Zebra
Glacial Zebra
Work Release
British Breakfast
Granny's Throwing
Zlatava
Surrendar's Indian Curry*
Sart Roloise
Everett's Rusty Oxheart
Butterscotch Paste
Arabesque*
Elita*
Cream Sausage*
Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge
Colonnade*
Midnight Sun
Fuzzy Blue Balls
Eros
Bakir*
Lava Flow
Marianna's Peace
Nature's Riddle
Bug Tussle Buttermilk Wonder
Rose
Inciardi Paste
Stripes of Yore
Yamali Blue
Yamali Green
Yamali Yellow
Campbell's 33*
KC 146*
Heinz 2653*
Heinz 1350*
Heinz 1706*
Heinz 1370*
Heinz 2274*

Hopefully, these will be enough to net me all the tomatoes that I need to go through the year.