These are other seeds I started yesterday. I waited on sauce tomatoes because I don't see much reason to start them as early, while everyone should want the earliest slicing tomatoes :-).
There were some old "Ranger" sauce tomato seeds. It's an excellent variety that I grew 3 or 4 years ago, productive, tasty, big, disease free. However the seed and shipping were too expensive so I changed to Roma III which are also excellent but bot quite as big. I'm growing out the last of the Ranger seeds so they are not wasted. I also discovered I have a pack of "Supremo" so I will test that with one plant. The bulk of the sauce tomatoes will be Roma III, very productive, good, meaty, good size, disease free sauce tomatoes. I'll grow a few Roma VF that I saved seeds for last year, to see how they do in identical conditions as the others. Last year's Roma VF were off the irrigation grid and shaded by taller tomatoes, so didn't get a good test.
There are also various other plant varieties in this round of seed starting. I'm curious about how the Salpiglossis turn out. Those seeds are like dust. There are conflicting reports on whether they require light.
The condiment bottle is a great way to water seeds. I think it works better than a sprayer.
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