These are the tomatoes I planted in the greenhouse about 4 or 5 weeks ago now. They are getting fruits and flowering like crazy. The varieties I have planted so far: Early Girl, Sweet Million, Black Krim, Black Cherry, Pollock and Sungold. (I know, I know... there are 3 hybrids in there!) I try to do mostly heirloom varieties, but Early Girl and Sweet Millions are the varieties I used to plant with my grandma when I was a little girl - she is the one who instilled my crazy plant obsession, and I ALWAYS plant those two in memory of her. Then there is Sungold. A hybrid, but honestly, the flavour is to die for. Nothing wrong with a few hybrids... you can't save seeds from them, but I have lots of other varieties I can save the seed from.
I am working on planting some more tom's outside now that it is warmer. Amish Paste - I have about 50 planted so far (and my goal is to get about 100 in). Another heirloom called Berne de Rose - this is somewhat of a rare one, and I plan on saving seed from them, plus I am going to plant some more Black Krim, Sungold and a few Big Rainbow and Mortgage Lifters to try out. My goal is to just have craploads of tomatoes to sell. Last year, I did the boo-boo of planting the tom's too close to the squash, and they got drowned out. (of course, last year my squash got over 100' long.... a 'wee' bit bigger than I had predicted!!)
All in all, I should have about 250 producing tomatoes of all different sizes and colours. Looking forward to trying out some varieties I haven't done before!
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