celebrity and a purple variety have set and should be ripe in a week or 2.

i was able to plant in late feb here in new orleans.

How long will your tomatoes last with your heat in the summer?

i'll be starting a few heat resistant varieties (phoenix or heat wave) maybe this week. i'm a little late on that but we've had a "little rain"

i'll get vegetative growth throughout the summer on those little tomatoes, and if the hornworms don't take then they may start setting again in the fall.

if you hanen't noticed, i love my tomatoes. also peppers and eggplants.

Moskvich
Brandywine
Cherokee Purple
Black Cherry
Amish Paste
Roma

Also 3 kinds of Tomatillos
De Milpa
Purple
Pineapple

who knows lol
got volunteers from last year's dropped 'maters
good thing since last year's tomato seeds didn't sprout for some reason

so I'm glad to have them. My raised beds are full so I'll need to move the volunteers into containers. What size containers do you grow your tomatoes in?

the bigger ones allow a subplanting of marigold or onion.

i like "determinate" varieties like the "celebrity" for contauners but they still need to be staked.

the containers need watering nearly every day and frequent miracle grow.

the volunteers are proving that they are well adapted right where they are. i'd stake them up right where they are growing.

and I have a few of those. I'm glad to hear that 12" also would work minus the marigolds. I'll run out of 18" pots because there are so many. I see a lot of tomato sauce in my future lol.

Leaving the volunteers where they are is good advice, but it isn't an option. You wouldn't believe where some of the tomato volunteers appeared. For instance, in the container with a very tall peace rose. Silly tomato volunteers.

You're right about daily watering. I water every day when temperatures are 90 or above. The vicissitudes of container gardening.

Note to self: next year try "celebrity" variety based on recommendations by rampatrc and Johnny's Selected Seeds.

Pink Brandywine
Black Cherry
Brandy Boy
Mortgage Lifter
Glacier
Steak House
German Johnson
Martha Washington

The heirlooms are my favorite, but I mix in some hybrids to give me the best chance. Southern New England weather can be cruel.

Glacier
Red racer
Brandywine
Sungold
Cosmonaut volkov
San marzano

I also started a bunch of other varieties for my brother and I’m guessing he will only take a few, leaving me with more varieties!

That must be 30 gallons of tomatoes altogether. I plant one and usually someone will give me another and that's plenty. But I don't can or dry them either.

tomato, mozzarella, prosciutto and basil on a cracker
eat 'em raw in the garden .... sun golds
BLTs
give 'em away
Salsa .... I sometimes can it
mozzarella, tomato, & basil "roll ups"
pick 'em warm and slice 'em ..... little salt and mayo
cheese burger w/tomato

I had one plant last year, installed in a decorative obelisk in the cottage garden in front of the house. By the end of the season, we were thoroughly sick of yellow cherry tomatoes. This year I'm buying my tomatoes at the farmers market.

Early Girl
Arkansas Traveler
Big Beef
Better Boy
Lemon Boy
Summerset
Champion
Bonnie Centennial
Bella Rosa
Indigo Sun
Homestead
Mountain Pride
Carnival
Boxcar Willie

The garden is coming to an end in a few weeks here in West Texas. I haven't had a garden for a few years. I love a plate of homegrown tomatoes with Kosher salt and Extra Virgin olive oil(first cold pressed) for lunch.

Old German tomato, lettuce, chard, thick cut bacon, real mayonnaise, and sprouts. Pepperidge farm potato bread ... lightly toasted. Little Dijon mustard too.

the label say they are sun golds

Just picked a real nice Old German.