So, Dr. Natalie, we're talking about compact vegetables.
You brought a nice display-- - I did!
I brought a few samples.
- Of those compact vegetables.
- With us here today.
We give a lot of face time for tomatoes and peppers.
There are a lot of great options in compact tomatoes
and peppers these days.
We have the baby snackers, we even have some beautiful,
light, sweet peppers here, these are called Candy Cane.
Even the leaves, actually, are variegated,
these may be one of my favorite plants
in the trial this year.
And even compact eggplants, these are called a Hansel,
there's also Gretel, but it's white,
it matches the Patio Baby.
So we have lots of nice 18 to 24 inch plants
that can go in raised beds, containers, very easily.
- Okay.
Now can we talk a little bit more about those tomatoes
that you grew?
- Let's talk about those little tomatoes.
- Let's do that.
- So we really have some really cool options
in the ranges of small-fruited tomatoes.
There are very compact 12, 18 inch plants.
I think we have a good picture of one that's called
Little Bing, it's a determinate tomato
that fruits heavily, it can bear really well
for a short period of time, if you're looking for
a little bit larger fruit and a little bit larger plant,
Homeslice is also a nice compact plant.
And then there are even some dwarf indeterminate tomatoes.
- Are you gettin' this, Mr. D.?
- There's more indeterminate.
- Keeps on growing--
- And keeps on producing flowers--
- Still little but it gets bigger.
- Right, its leaves are just really close together.
And so we have some of those.
Now these are not gonna produce the fruit
that you would expect out of a Brandywine,
or one of our eight foot tall indeterminates,
but they can produce over a longer period of time,
produce nice Beefsteak-looking fruit,
and perform well in a container.
- So that's the big one,
they have to do better in a container, then.
I've not had any luck at all trying to grow regular tomatoes
in a container, but the small, dwarf tomato
ought to work better in a container.
- Yeah, and so you'll still need a pretty good
soil volume to get 'em to perform well,
but you don't have to do near as much work to string 'em up.
- What about soil for growing these tomatoes?
Does it matter?
- For the most part,
my trials are actually in soil,
so they can perform well in high-quality garden soil,
but most of the time in containers,
we'll think of well-drained, organic mix, a pro mix,
mixed with some compost, or a little bit of pine bark chips
and things like that to get a little bit larger particle
size, pro mix, peat, can compact over the course of a season
if you have it in a large container.
- Good stuff, now what about the peppers?
Let's talk about the peppers.
- So the peppers, I already mentioned a little bit
about Candy Cane, variegated fruit and leaves.
Now that'll be available on the market next year.
And then we have some of the baby bells,
so this is called Eros.
And then some of the other cool options that we have
on the market are combination plants that are both
ornamental and edible.
And so these are called Pretty and Sweet, so you can see,
a nice, compact, bright small pepper,
but they're also on a plant that has variegated color fruit,
a nice, compact plant that could be great in a container.
We also have some hot peppers called Blackhawk, Black Pearl,
they produce really small hot fruit with dark leaves,
so there are a lot of options,
not just for the back porch, for the front porch too.
- That's pretty good.
Now you have some, what, eggplant?
- Yeah.
These are Hansel, and they're paired with Gretel,
these are about a two foot tall plant that produce these
nice, small fruit.
Patio Baby's another example of an eggplant,
I think we have a picture of it.
But it has a really small egg-shaped fruit,
two or three inches,
and it's ready for harvest, so these are,
you know, productive over the course of a season,
but very compact and good for containers.
- Wow.
So folks do really enjoy growing these plants, right?
- You can get a pretty good selection for your kitchen
right there on the back porch.
- Now when are all these gonna be available, though,
for folks to actually start planting and growing?
- So, Candy Cane's an example of one that'll be
on the market in 2018, but Patio Baby actually won
the All-American selections in 2015,
so it's available on the market now.
Pretty and Sweet's a recent All-American selections winner,
so most of these, the Little Bing, the Homeslice,
most of those are on the market now.
So folks can order the seeds.
You may not be able to find 'em in a garden center,
this may be a thing where you'll wanna
start your own transplants.
- So these have been trialed throughout the state, or,
how are you working on them?
- Yeah, so for some of our tomato and pepper plants,
we have, I do trials in Knoxville, but also,
we have several of these being trialed in demo gardens,
Master Gardener demo gardens across the state.
So I grew a lot of transplants and shipped 'em out
to those places so that they can give us feedback
on what they're like across the state.
Just because it does well in Knoxville doesn't mean
it'll do well in Memphis or--
- Exactly right.
Mr. D. knows about the different zones that we have here.
- And another one of the cool things that we're working on
for, we've kind of pilot-tested it this year,
but we're going a little bit bigger next year,
will be a home garden variety trial.
So that we have the opportunity for people
in their own backyards to try combinations of cultivars
that we know perform relatively well,
but we really wanna know what they do across Tennessee.
So we'll just send 'em matched sets of pairs of cultivars
of any of the cucumber, zucchini, a lot of beans
that they wanna try and they'll let us know
at the end of the season how they do.
- Now tell me this,
how did you go about choosing these cultivars though?
- Well, initially, these selections were made based on
disease resistance, visual appeal, right--
- (Chris) Gotta look good.
- Yeah.
- They look like Christmas ornaments.
(laughing)
- Can't ignore the visual appeal.
And how well they fit into spaces,
so we're thinking about, do these work for raised beds,
or are these better for a gardener that has a larger
home garden plot, so those are the kinds of feedback
that we're askin' from folks.
What do they look like, what do they taste like,
how early did they fruit, and general aspects on yield.
We're not askin' everybody to send us back data sheets.
- So how has that feedback been though,
have you gotten back some of that feedback already?
- Yeah, we've gotten back some of that feedback,
and folks have been excited to give us their opinions,
and so by the end of September, we'll be getting a lot
of those notes back and from that,
then we'll make the decision over what our cultivars are
that we grow next year.
So we'll keep some of the same ones,
things that performed well,
but if we have some that didn't go over very well
across Tennessee, we'll swap 'em out,
and grow some things that people are more interested in.
So we want this to be dynamic,
it changes through time to suit people's needs.
- Good deal.
I think we even have Mr. D. convinced now.
- He's gonna be a participant next year, I can tell.
I think he's gonna be an evaluator.
- I'm into edible landscaping, yeah.
I like being able to eat things I try to take care of.
- See there you go.
- Yeah.
They always want the payoff.
- They got one now.
Appreciate it, Dr. Natalie.
- Yeah, thanks.
- That's good stuff, good stuff.
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