[Marcella]

“Darn, I have to figure out on Burpee site again which tomatoes I was going to get - want an early maturing one, a medium maturing and a later maturing one, so I can try to keep some tomatoes always ready to eat - getting indeterminate ones, no determinate ones. They also have some that are container tomatoes so was getting some of those that fit in the early, medium, late producers.

MomwithHope took pity on me and is sending me some Sabre tomato seed and it's a late maturing one that does well with cold. Mom also fell and had to go to doctor and had bruised ribs so been saying prayers for her to feel better fast. When you fall, actually all your muscles tense up and then they all hurt. That's a time for pain pills or alcohol to get the muscles to relax.

One time, a car ran a stop sign and hit the side of the car I was in. My door wouldn't open due to the hit and I had to get out the other side of the car. By the time I got back to the hotel, everything hurt and I got in a tub of hot water to get muscles to relax. Didn't have pain pills or alcohol.

Well, I make this sound like I'm talking about a lot of tomato plants, but I'm not. I figure two/three early and two/three middle and two/three late will do it since they are all indeterminate and hopefully will keep producing. Maybe that will work and maybe it won't. At least I know how to grow them now so I won't screw them up as I have done before.

Next spring, everything I plant will just be perfect. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Nepeta]

Check out these sources for tomatoes:

www.totallytomato.com

www.glecklerseedmen.com

http://doublehelixfarms.com/
(site under maintenance, but try later--it is a must-see. There are tomatoes there I have not seen elsewhere.

From my own personal experience, Sweet Million is a cherry tomato well worth growing. Everyone I have given plants to has been delighted with the tomatoes, which are sweet and abundant. Sometimes volunteers appear the following season, and they seem much like the first generation.

[sockmonkey]

Marcella,
knock on wood ihere's a pic I took of tomatoes I picked. The larger ones are Tycoon. The white spot is a quarter I set on one. The smaller tomatoes are solar fires. I think the quarter makes the tomatoes look smaller than they are because it was closer to my phone camera.

[rightly_dividing]

We had a three Early Girl maters that were first to produce and produced vigorously till we cut down the garden and cleaned it up for winter. They were still producing maters when we killed them, and were the the best producers(sometimes ten at once per plant) of all the maters we planted, about 20 plants of about 8 varieties. They are bush type, not vine mater plants.

My favorites were brandywine, cherokee purple, big beefsteak, and big boy. These are the only ones we will plant next year.