Something people can do for fun while keeping their normal high-quality garden and planting routine is play with a couple of Early girl seeds and the early planting tricks to see how quickly they can get their first tomato.
There are far better tomatoes than Early Girl but playing the first-of-season game can be fun and tasty while waiting for the rest of the better tomatoes to catch up.
Yummy...Umm...toasted tomato sandwiches,...salt pepper and mayo.
Nah. I’m a Purist. I prefer for all of my tomatoes to come in in the heat of end-of-July-into-August so I can complain long and LOUDLY about how BLOODY HOT IT IS TO BE CANNING INDOORS AND I NEED A SUMMER KITCHEN!!
You know - like my Grandma did and her Mother before her, LOL!
Not that any of our Menfolk built Summer Kitchens for any of us. ;)
I actually am having the odd problem this year of a few tomato plants that flowered and fruited while still small. Then the plant seems to put all its energy into producing a couple fruits but doesn’t itself grow much, if at all. One plant is literally 8” tall and is making a 3-1/2” tomato - slowly...
These were varieties such as “Celebrity” and “Better Boy”.
This isn’t really a problem as many other plants are doing well. But, I’ve never seen it to this degree.