Hi HuskTomatoGC, Welcome to The Seed Exchange! How would I go about getting some seeds? By setting up your member trade list, and enabling your email link so that you can easily be reached for trading. See link below...it explains about everything you need to know to get started trading or accepting some seeds for postage offers. chemocurl...aka Sue Here is a link that might be useful: sticky: please read before posting! **Required**

Like Thistle wrote, just transplant the tomatoes deep, (all the way up to the first set of true leaves) and they should be fine. Keep the lights just a couple of inches above the plants (higher if they seem to crisp the leaves). Isn't it awful when someone says something with complete assurance, at it messes you up big-time? Sometimes I've read something in several places, and thought it must be true (different sources, right?) and it turned out to be a BAD idea for me to try. Ground cherries are going to need the same amount of light. Indoor fluorescent light is nothin' compared to the sun, I think even shade perennials grown indoors can have the same amount of light (not sure though), but ground cherries are sun-loving annuals, so give them as much light as the toms. Most people keep fluorescents on 16-24 hours a day.

Wow, I am jealous...I'm just putting my wintersown maters in the ground this week...probably won't be harvesting til the end of July! Way to go! Happy Eating! Great mater salad: Cut cherry tomatoes in half, add a Tablespoon of very, very finely minced sweet onion, salt and pepper, drizzle with good olive oil, just until it shines....very yummy with any size maters, but it's pretty with the cherries as they don't fall apart. Pretty to serve on top of grilled steak or chicken, like a salsa. I first ate tomatoes prepared like this back in Germany in 1979.

I'm growing four kinds, two of which are heirlooms - Mortgagelifters and Juliets. The ML is supposed to produce some very large tomatoes while the Juliets produce clusters of grape-like cherry tomatoes. The box store varieties are Patio (determinate) and Husky Cherry Red. They were all put in the ground the third week of March and are only about 14" tall, but doing well so far and beginning to flower. I'm such a newbie to all of this so don't have any history with any of these varieties to report. I'm MAKING history this year and will report back on them. I did grow some Black Cherries last year and while they produced really well and got quite tall and bushy, their flavor was not as sweet as I like cherry tomatoes to be and the skin was a bit tough which might be the plant's response to a harsh sun. I've purchased some semi-shade cloth this year which I'll put over the raised beds in late spring and see if that helps. I've heard Sweet 100's are delicious and may try them next year if I'm not satisfied with the cherry varieties I chose this year. I'd like to find an heirloom tomato that is medium sized, sweet and prolific, about the size of a Roma but round. Anybody have any suggestions?