Every year we plant a Sunsugar and a Sweet Millions tomato plant. Then, we add an "experimental" variety or two as we find them at the nursery. A couple years ago, we tried a white cherry, aka ghost tomato plant. Sickly yellow in appearance and disgusting in taste, it was a total waste of time, water and garden space. The nursery we bought it from said other gardeners had the same complaint.

Last year, besides the Sunsugar and Sweet Millions, we planted a black cherry tomato. It was quite prolific, not really black, and not tasty enough to be invited back for dinner.

Without some kind of life support, it's too early and too cold to plant tomato starts in the ground around here.

Yes, I have my starts inside right now. The cat I'm watching seems very interested in them.

I grow my tomatoes in pots as I really don't have a good space for a garden at my place. Besides tomatoes, what other types of veggies have folks had success with growing in pots?
I'm thinking maybe some cucumbers, onions and peppers this year as well.
SF

Nice lookin' stuff !

I remember fondly those big, red-fleshed, tasty tomatoes that Grandpa used to grow.
With mayo slathered on some bread, Grandma would make some dandy tomato sandwiches for us kids.

I can also remember having a big tomato sandwich and then meeting up with Tommy for some L&M cigarettes.
After some pulls off that L&M, I promptly projectile-puked that sammy out while Tommy laughed his ass off.

How are you guys' tomatoes doing so far?

I planted several, and it's mostly a few small pea size green tomatoes per plant. Nothing seems to be going gangbusters (yet).

Ok, but not great.
Biggest are around golf ball size.

I don't know what I did. Anaheim peppers were looking good but the just kind of fizzled out. Got two big peppers and the small ones are just dropping off the plant. Suggestions????
SF

None to eat yet.

Fish on...

Todd

The tops of all our plants got deer-pruned. New house, new problems.

Ate about a dozen Sundance so far (planted Sundance in place of Sungold this year. Supposed to be less susceptible to splitting.) I have 2 or 3 of the larger variety (forget the name again) that are just about ready to pick. Overall I'm having my best and earliest tomatoes ever.

I had a cherry tomatoe in a large pot on the deck a number of years ago. One evening towards the end of summer it was loaded and gorgeous and smelled heavenly from 50 feet away. I was gonna pick them all but wanted a picture and it was late in the day so I decided to wait until the morning. You can probably guess what happened and now I know deer will jump a gate and walk down a deck around a house to get at good tomatoes. The plant was a stump the next morning.

This is my first year gardening. I started these inside from seed in April. Not too many tomatoes yet, but plenty of growing season still to come.

Kind of a rough year for my toms so far. Planted early, when it looked like we were in for another hot, dry late spring. Weather changed. A couple plants are looking great, two more are so-so, and two were lost to blight.

The neighbors (peppers) are also a mixed bag. I planted good-sized bell pepper starts and some smaller Anaheim and Hatch chile starts in May. When the weather turned, all started flowering and producing fruit. I think they thought fall was here early. Anyway, the bell peppers are still growing and looking good. The chiles are perking up, but the peppers that started growing early on are rotting away. Those did well in the heat last year, but they don't seem to care much for more typical Western WA summers.

Peas, radishes, cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, lettuce, kale, and green beans all doing great, but they usually do in our climate. It's been a great year for berries so far.

I think you guys using greenhouses and other heat-trapping systems for tomatoes have the right idea. In typical seasons, we need all the extra heat we can get, especially to grow slicing varieties.

Flea -

You should try Wall-O-Waters. They are cheap and work great.

Wall-O-Water

Looks like a winner. Thanks, Nick.

My peppers are still doing fine but I've been pulling off all the flower buds as they've appeared. I'm hoping to get them bigger and hardier before some nice weather rolls in and let them go to fruit. Their growth rate has certainly slowed down the last couple of weeks though.

Thought ours were safe up against the house on an elevated patio too. One more day and they'll be perfect. Damn deer....