What kind of luck have you had with either Better Boy or Bodacious? Those are the varieties I’ve got in containers. The Bodacious did produce a couple of early tomatoes, but sadly, I lost them to blossom-end rot. The foliage itself, however, still looks good, and there are several new blossoms appearing, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
I think that all of OK’s recent extraordinarily heavy rain for weeks and weeks must have something to do with why some things that always grew in prior years have died, and others that never grew before are going crazy now. Mother Nature is a weird lady.
I’ve had pretty good luck with Better Boys started from 6-packs from Menards. They are tasty, too! They don’t always do well directly from the 6-packs though: I usually put them in 6” tall pots I make from the bottom of 2L soda bottles, with holes drilled or melted into the bottom(s). Then move ‘em to the garden itself (soil) when they are 12 - 15 inches tall and I can see good root growth through the pots’ “walls”, but not so dense as to be rootbound. IMO they are a bit tricky in hot dry weather and our clay soils, and left in pots heat really seems to get ‘em. (Granted, that was right beside / compared to some Heatwave II’s, which tolerate heat pretty well. In our nearly impervious ground soils, then, trying to keep Better Boys going in dry heat*, it is easy to overwater them and lose the roots.
Bodacious I have not tried, nor seen around here.
I definitely agree about the rain. This was a very tough Spring, here, too.