Like Dawn stated you really need to give a variety more than one season although I don't many times. She covered several varieties. I will give a few opinions of mine before I share a few I really like. First what does well in my garden may not in yours or Dawn's. Hearts don't do well here for me and I know several others that have had similar results trying to grow hearts. Taste is unique to each of us so what I like you may not. Also soil and weather conditions are big factors in the taste. Small to mid sized tomatoes overall will set and produce better than the large ones. There are a few exceptions. I look at is like this. Would I rather have 50-60 4-8 ouncers or 2-8 larger ones. Lucky Cross in the only one I grow for that 1-2 fruit. And why I'm cutting back on the Brandywine types. Brandyboy F1 is the only one I've found that does well consistently of the Brandywines. Although since I've been on this forum I've found many times that Dawn and I have experienced the same results with a variety there are exceptions. And part of that is the climate, conditions and soil. My sand and her clay she has greatly improved. In additon to the ones she has listed I will add a few. A few I will always grow are Juane Flammee'( my favorite smaller type just bigger than a cherry) , Kellogg's Breakfast( in my top 3 light orange color and temp senistive as to flavor), Cherokee Purple( better than IS and more productive here), Black from Tula does well here as does several of the blacks. I grew one I liked this summer called Mystery Black. Carbon is another. One all around favorite for me is Glick's 18 Mennonite. I've grown it the last 2 years. Seems to have a little early disease problems but when it takes off performs as well as anything. Picked around 85 4-6 ouncers from it and still loaded with green ones when the freeze got it. For those that are dependable and that I plant most years to have something in case the favorites fail are Moneymaker(just larger than a cherry) and Vintage Wine Striped. Black Cherry is a good cherry. I grew an F1 cherry cross this year that I really like but haven't convinded the breeder to make that cross again. Heinz 1439 set very heavy here and seemed to be disease resistant. Can be sliced and also a good canner type. As far as hybrids go Goliath has been my standby till this year. Both plants went down. It is also a favorite of many small market growers here. Old Fashoined Goliath and Porterhouse have done well here some years and have good size and flavor. Security and Jetsonic did very weel this year, The first for both. I liked Jetsonic the best. Got the seeds free when I puchased some others and didn't see it listed by them this year. Heartland is another favorite. I have a few more new hybrids to try next year. Some Dawn mentioned do well here and some are favorites. I tried not to relist them. Just added those she didn't mention. And as soon as I hit the submit button will think of others. There are so many varieties cutting it down to a few is hard. Especially for me. I always have to leave off something I like. Here our season is just between being long enough for a spring and fall crop and is longer than those north of us who can only grow one. So I plant from mid to later April depending on the spring till at least early to mid June. The earlies many times will slack off or quit when the intense heat and wind hit. The late ones do well from late August till it freezes. So learning and knowing your climate really helps. Having big early plants is one way. I do start some of mine directly in the garden with plastic over the top. I've had mixed success. Two years ago they were by far my best plants. This year wasn't as good. Time will tell. I do start many inside under lights also. I will grow several in cold frames this winter and try that. The garden guru I've learned a lot from does that. And one that Dawn and I knew that used to be on GW used them and put a layer of manure underneath. I'm going to try that also this year. Anyway to get a little head start and have healthy hardened off plants helps. Jay

Oh. Mah. Gawd. You guys are freaks -- freaks, I tell you! And I love you all the more because you're so freeeeaky! There is some amazingly awesome stuff in this thread. Makes me want to add even more bizarre stuff to my house, because, really, who wants to live without humor and whimsy and ... freakishness in their lives? ;-D Well, I'm the only person I know of whose house is Tudor cottage in the outside, Little Mexico on the inside. What's odd is that I recently learned from the woman who grew up in the house in the 40's that her mother was fluent in Spanish and had a love affair going on with the Latino culture. I had sent this woman some current house pix, and she said her mother would have loved it. Here are a few of my oddities: This hideous little truck - how I love it! It's moved from my kitchen to my living room mantle. My nephew came over one day and played with it, and ended up gouging the wooden bun feet of my sofa with it. ::sigh:: I have a Tatouage chicken on my hallway wall: There's a rusting rooster guarding my side entry: And a scary troll dude sitting on my front porch.

I see everywhere "Dumbledore can't be dead he was such a powerful how can he be killed off that easily." Well it is that easy when you use Avada Kedavra. It doesn't matter if you're muggle or a Order of Merlin 1st Class. If you get hit you're dead. Like a Wizard's Raid. Kills People Dead. Now I guess you can say his spirit might still be out there because a pheonix rose from the grave which is probably his spirit. Also his painting is in the headmasters office. There is probably an enchantment on the room to create a painting when the person dies. Now I don't think Dumbledore is as good as fooling an enchantment. Do you. Oh yeah and the idea of the inferi potion I can only see one problem with it. Not that many people have gone to the cave. In fact Dumbledore and R.A.B.(Regulus?) have been there. Well that's all except this forum is almost full so I'm starting a new one called Harry Potter book 7

All right you fanatics! Harry will not be studying at hogwarts during his 7th year, but will return occasionaly or at some point to visit Dumbledore's (and now Minerva's) office. I believe that this office contains many clues 4 harry to go on to bigger things. Remember that this office was a place of study to DD who collected many objects,and astronomy among other things. Perhaps there is something in the stars harry has yet to learn about. As well don't forget that many portraits remain animated, containing several characters, old headmasters and mistresses whom all have great knowledge and secret portraits hanging around the country.(just a thought) Some people believe the final battle will take place in the dark forest but i think it unlikely. The idea of a final battle risking the lives of hundreds of students on school grounds is not what JK would think appropriate. It's already enough that some characters will not make it to the end... Harry will attend the weasley and delacour wedding before heading off to his personal venture. He will only tell hermione , ginny and ron about the adventure, although, certain members of the order will discover the plans he has and will keep a close watch on his journey...I believe that Lupin and tonks will secretely follow the star trio. Harry will want to learn more about his parents life before death and will discover his grandparents identity and roots as well, from where we will finally understand how harry has become so wealthy throughout his parents. I believe James potter was naturally wealthy because he had noble blood, passed on by a long term royal family, turned sour. Of course their gold will have increased with their daily jobs seeing how talented james and lily were. Harry will not linger too long in godric's hollow for many death eaters will expect him to go there. The death eaters help lucius escape from askaban. The dark lord finds out from an unreliable source that narcissa spilled the beans concerning draco's mission(possibly wormtail who was evesdropping at the door(HBP). V will then personnaly kill narcissa, but lucius will not have the opportunity to stop it. Snape who is now on the run with draco will appear finally at his supposedly masters feet once more, looking like the devoted puppet. Only snape will play his part well for some time, which will put him in the lords good graces. With all this new excitement and rush, draco starts to have mixed feelings about this new dark side he has prepared for all his life. Draco does not like his father anymore for letting his mother die and begins to understand snapes real plan. Draco starts to believe what DD told him about beeing able to hide people so other would think they are dead. He begins to want to join the other side. Remember that Draco has always been a coward and wanted to befriend harry on their first night at the castle. Children are often the products of their parents due to lots of intimidation....