I was tempted but put them down. Fred Meyers in NW had tomato and pepper and other plants $1.50 each. I got enough in the soil for me, why would I look at more? Yes, they had 2 heirlooms too.
Went with Early Girl, Celebrity, Better Boy and Jersey Devil. Everything is from store-bought starts except for Jersey Devil.
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Well, got the 35 plants mulched last week, and last evening, got them staked up and lashed to tobacco sticks. Theyâre all a foot tall or less, and look kinda shrimpy, but I know it wonât be long before theyâll turn into monster bushes. My wife planted out three early tomâs about a month ago, and theyâre close to 3ft tall already.
We planted out eight Brandywineâs, yellow, pink and black, so hope they do well for us. Also curious to see how the six new (for us) varieties do, esp Omarâs Lebanese, itâs supposed to be a huge plant and tomato.
@Drew51, Iâm giving Girl Girl another shot this year. I sowed Romeo seeds, but they didnât sprout for me this year. Curious as to what tomâs youâre trying?
A light year for me. I do like the dark tomatoes so Girl Girl, and also Indian Stripe, a smaller dark tomato. Those two are all I need for dark tomatoes. Others are great too, but these two meet my needs. Romeo, and San Marzano for pastes. And Carbon Copy and Sun Gold for cherries. thatâs it for this year. Omarâs is good btw!
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Morasky Div Tomato
First tomato of this season for me.
Iâm surprised that it didnât seem to be slowed down by our unusually cool spring weather.
I just planted out my starts today, 114 plants. I was going to cut back this year, but @thepodpiper sent me stuff I just had to try. I have a lot of extras if anyone wants to come pickâem up!
I forgot that you also gave me Indian Stripe, so I didnât try those this year. I didnât want to plant a lot this year, but somehow we put out 38 this year. All but 3 are in really good soil this year, so if all goes well, we should get a big harvest. If.
I was just out looking at them this evening, and some of them seem to have almost doubled in size in less than a week. Guess they have settled in and now theyâre taking off. Or it could be the 3" of rain weâve gotten recently.
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Just added two Cuor di Bue and one âGarden Peachâ. They taste sooooo goood!!!
I found a freebee growingâŚbet it was from a hybrid dwarf I grew last year. I stuck it in the bed now and will see what it turns out like.
A cherry I planted now has 1 berry. It is green, but soon enough this June maybe before 4th of July I will eat it.
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Here is June Bug, my first to ripen. It is a cross made from Jaune Flamme and Black Cherry by a guy on Tomatoville named named Charley who was sharing some seeds. It is supposed to be a burnt orange when fully ripe and about an inch and a half in diameter.
Now the question is do I pick and finish ripening inside or play squirrel roulette?
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Buy some netting. 
The squirrels and chipmunks just floss with it on their way inâŚ
My 1st to set any fruit is Sweet Baby Girl.
I have currant and other cherry types like SunGold but she wins.
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I planted tomato seeds from 1997 last year and they grew.
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Ate my first tomato of the year yesterday. Sungold. It was tasty. I liked it a lot.
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Got a few more tomâs showing up on the plants, but none to eat yet. A lot are over 3ft tall now, and starting to spread out. Our huge Watermelon beefsteak plant on the deck has a couple fruit on it.
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Mine are looking the same, over 3â and have lots of green fruit on them. Got one ripe sungold from a plant that I didnât have space for- itâs been languishing in a solo cup, but managed to fruit.
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Iâve got fruit set on several types. The best looking so far is the Mennonite Orange. Iâm drooling in hope.
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I got disappointed with my âJet-setterâ this year again. it is not ripe yet, but I already can see it is not Jet-setter at all. Few years ago the seeds were widely available and produced early, large, round, smooth, pinkish fruit. The problem started when Tomato Growers stopped to sell them. I found the seeds at some other site, but two years in the row from 3 plants I started at least one was completely different - large, flat and ribbed. I blamed the company I bought them from. So I was very happy to see this year that Tomato Growers have them back. Little I knew⌠Both plants this year produce flat, ribbed tomatoes. I donât know, may be they good(Though I hate ribbed tomatoes for making juice. I always feel I canât clean them well enough and they never ripen evenly). But they are NOT Jet setters⌠Jet-setter is a hybrid, so no point to talk about stability of the kind⌠Just sad how good things just vanish from existenceâŚ
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Got home last night after being away for a few days and tried out the blacklight flashlight I got off of Amazon. Itâs amazing that it actually works to see tomato horn worms you would never have found otherwise. Found 7 including some babies that were barely an inch long. That blacklight is the best thing since sliced bread for hornworms.
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