From Tatiana's TOMATOBase

Contents 1 Tatiana Kouchnareva 1.1 Seed Collection 1.2 Garden Pictures 1.3 Growing Methods 1.4 Tomato Growouts 1.5 Tomato Labels 2 Tomato varieties maintained by Tatiana Kouchnareva.

Tatiana Kouchnareva

The Founder and the Owner of Tatiana's TOMATObase

Garden Location 

Anmore, BC, Canada

Zone 7b, coastal PNW

Seed Saving 

actively saving heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable seeds since 2003, a listed Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) member since 2006

Email

tatianak.garden at gmail.com

Main interests

• Tomatoes (Click here to view the list of Tatiana's Tomatoes)
• Winter Squash
• Melons and Watermelons
• Garlic
• Lettuce
• Peppers
• Classical Piano

Seed Collection

• Click here to view Tatiana's Tomatoes
• Click here to view accidental crosses that appeared in Tatiana's tomato garden.
• Click here to view Tatiana's Garlic
• Click here to view Tatiana's Watermelons grown in PNW
• Click here to view Tatiana's Melons grown in PNW

Garden Pictures

• Tatiana's Picasa Web Albums
• Click here to see how Tatiana's Garden was created in 26 days.
• Click here to see more pictures.

Growing Methods

I grow all my vegetables organically, using kitchen compost and composted horse manure to amend the soil in spring, and liquid seaweed and fish fertilizer along with molasses as a foliar feed. After the harvest, potato and garlic beds are planted with buckwheat for 'green manure', and I turn the buckwheat under just before it goes to seed. The melon, pepper, and tomatoes are harvested much later, and therefore I plant winter rye in early-mid October, after removing the plants. Winter rye grows through the winter months and it is ready to turn under in April-early May, just in time to plant the new tomato and pepper crops!

I grow most of my tomatoes under plastic cover, to protect from foliage diseases that usually come after rain. I do not use any fungicides or pesticides in my garden.

Peppers and melons are grown in non-heated greenhouses, as the PNW summers are usually not hot enough to ripen the fruit before the frost. This also allows me to set out transplants earlier in spring, thus extending the growing season quite a bit.

Our garden backs into the wilderness, and deer and, occasionally, bears, come by regularly to visit us. After unsuccessfully trying some deer-repellents and netting as a protection, we finally settled on installing a high voltage electric fence around the garden area, and this effectively stopped both deer and bear 'attacks' for good.

Tomato Growouts

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2008 Tomato List (PDF)
• 2007 Tomato List (PDF)
• 2006 Tomato List (PDF)

Tomato Labels

• Tomatoes grown in 2008 (pdf)

Tomato varieties maintained by Tatiana Kouchnareva.

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