Aerogardens!

[Tony Page]

I am ordering some more seeds from eBay.
I just ordered some oregano and some thyme, and today, I ordered two different kinds of micro-dwarf tomatoes. (I didn’t know that those even existed !) the are supposed to stay around 12 inches tall, and are suited for growing in the aerogarden, but next spring, i should be able to put them in pots outside .
They will have to grow in the large Bounty aerogarden, because the smaller ones would be crowded with even 12 inch tall plants.
One is called Tiny Tim, and the other one is Blaue Zimmer , and it is deep red with a dark purple top. (See picture)

I also ordered some dwarf Greek basil, which can be kept trimmed back and should stay small and bushy and be great for adding to food this winter. The living room should be looking lush and green once the plants all start growing in here, and I can enjoy spring all winter.

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I've been growing the Tiny Tim tomato plant just about every year since around 1967 it's one of my favorites.

 

[Don Alaska]

I've been growing the Tiny Tim tomato plant just about every year since around 1967 it's one of my favorites.

Have you tried Orange Hat tomatoes @Tony Page ?

 

[Tony Page]

Have you tried Orange Hat tomatoes @Tony Page ?

No, I don't remember seeing them in the catalogs. Is it a cherry tomatoe?
One of the seed company every year with my order would send me some experimental seeds. One of those packets didn't have a name just a number and the Tomato turned out to be the size of a pea.
Now I just plant in pots. When I did in-ground planting on the larger plot I used to plant 80 to 100 plants, about 18 different varieties of which 3 or 4 were new varieties to me.
Tiny Tim the first year I planted them at the end of the season I cut it back pulled out the root ball from the pot trimmed it, repotted with fresh soil, I may have added a little hormone I don't remember, I put the pots on the window sill, and by January / February I had new tomatoes. It gave me 2 seasons. I used a camel hair artist brush to germinate the flowers per instructions I read in one of my gardening books and it worked.
I still have seeds from as far back as 2011, most still have life.

 

[Tony Page]

The Orange Hat Tomato looks good, if I have a garden this year I'll try it.
Below is photos of Tiny Tim Tomatoes from 2024.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

That is the perfect size tomato plant for a container, @Tony Page ! They should do fine in my large aerogarden, and once it is spring and warm enough to be outside, I can move them out.
I like your idea of cutting it back and repotting it for inside, so if it makes it though summer, I might try that, too. I have read that tomatoes can be perennial if they are somewhere that they do not get killed off by frost and cold weather.

It is interesting the difference in color in the shiso perilla that I grew outside last summer and the new seedlings that are growing in the aerogarden. The outside ones were a vibrant green with purple underneath, and these (which are seeds I saved at the end of this summer and planted in the AG), are beautiful shades of orange, purple , and gold.

 

[Marie Mallory]

The Orange Hat Tomato looks good, if I have a garden this year I'll try it.
Below is photos of Tiny Tim Tomatoes from 2024.

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Thats a lot of tomatoes on there.