I see this is a very old post, but all your plants caught my attention.. lol. I was wondering if you would have any starters or slips left from any of them.. but I am in particularly interested in Christmas ,easter, thanksgiving cactus, heck, I just love all plants but only have 3 (yes you read that one right..lol.. 3!!! my spider, my norfork island pine and my fig.. I also am trying to start some C. cactus so down the road I would be able to trade you some if you would like, just let me know , if you have any left.. please reach me at meadowridge@granitewave.com..

I try to cover a wide range with a relatively limited number of plants and only have the ones that taste good (to me). I like at least one early and one hybrid and a grape or cherry so Early Girl is my early and my hybrid. Grapes and cherries also tend to be early. Once I have that covered I look for med to large good tasting fruits in a range of colors, at least a couple each of reds and pinks, a yellow/orange and a black. I would like to add a green or stripe this year. I find the variety makes for very pleasing bowls of tomatoes and fun, appetizing dishes and sandwiches while still tasting wonderful. I find I can cover that with only about 8 or 9 plants. I don't want to plant more than I can keep up with, and I live alone, so unless I start canning big time, its enough plants for me. I would decide how many you want to plant, and make a list by early, mid and late season, as well any other features you are trying to include and start narrowing down the ones you want try and the ones you want to plant again from last year. Try to keep your real favorites from previous seasons and add at least a couple new ones each year. I just learned about the different Brandywines last year and plan to start trying the different varieties. I will start with the Suddarth, and you may want to continue that one and add one other each year until you find out which ones work best in your area which taste the best to you. Some people like sweet tomatoes, some dislike the sweet ones and like very acidic ones. Its all pretty subjective, but you will find about 2 dozen or so that well liked and are repeatedly recommended here, like Brandywine Suddarth, Kellogs Breakst, KBX, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, etc.

roper2008, i'm basing that these are lemon boys on blind faith in a coworker who gardens professionally on the side. the seeds, according to him, came from a lemon boy tomatoe that he got from another coworker. so it's kinda like the old whisper in the ear of the kid in front of the class and by the time it gets to the back it's totally something different. he gave me a cup that had five crowded seedlings, three look very much like the ones in the pictures and two others have the look of creoles. he told me he tried to plant creoles but had no germination in the cups and then planted the lemon boy seeds. anyway, it could be anything and i'll keep you informed what happens. cozy- that's how to grow tomatoes. are you going commercial or are you just an over zealous tomatoe freak. my lot here in the subdivision is right around 1/2 acres but i do have 40 acres up the road a bit in mississippi. i'm growing a lot of blueberries up there. blackberries are growing naturally and i'm introducing raspberries. i'm also doing them here at the house, but the soil here is difficult to support blueberries and raspberries. i'm doing well enough with heavy soil ammendments though. erlyberd- i have no plans on selling tomatoes myself right now. cozy looks like he/she needs to sell but then again some people are really hungry and big eaters.. haha.. i do plan on canning, making sauce, and salsa. i crabfish commercially as a side job, just started and i was planning on opening a small buisness around that with maybe branching out to selling fresh produce. i really have an interest in farming wild mushrooms. hopefully all the crabs don't die from the oil.

What's sad is I have 2 other gardens amended ready to plant in !! But on the s. side of my yard in full, direct, all day sun.. ugh! dahlias won't survive here - they need afternoon shade in my heat :( My hubby said just dig the holes - I knew better!! but thought how I will be pulling weed & grass clumps out of the area for the next 2weeks before I dare to plant one tuber in :( even after digging up the top area of sod. I feel stuck :( I dont want my tubers to stay out of the ground another minute but also know what it's like to do something half @s$ in the beginning and regret it until I fix it ! Now that u have me thinking ab it !! It's harder work to go back n fix it verses doing it right in the first place. I have 47 tubers waiting to be planted - my fear is, if I go ahead & do the bed right, it might take a while. I dug individual holes bc I've been physically sick lately & haven't had the energy to do my normal gardening - I counted 4 bags of black cow & 3 bags of potting Mix - far from enough to amend this area. But I can use soil from one of my open gardens I only have some kelp & bone meal in it - I'm an avid gardener. I know amending a small area for a plant does nothing good for it - I honestly think it's better not to ammend at all unless enough area is amended to accommodate the root zone @ maturity. I was trying to convince myself it'll b ok this way & I'll fix it this winter. Do u have any ideas for a quick solution ?? I wish I had the money to hire help to get this done asap!! Ugh- So how far apart on center should the tubers b planted ?? and in between rows ? I went by online recommendations. I'm beyond upset with myself I didn't start this early march!! Grrr !!!! Very upsetting... Along the south side of my house there's a hillside that stretches out past the right side of my back yard & circles behind it. The hill dips into a valley, which is were my "immediate" backyard is. The lowest point of this " valley" is behind the area I picked for my dahlias 2b planted. My backyard is a little valley but the ground closer to my house is higher than the rest of this valley area. I chose to plant my dahlias in this area closer to my back lanai for afternoon shade & higher ground. Bc the dahlias are at a higher point than the rest of the " valley" if it rains & floods, my dahlias won't be sitting in it. My yard is weird & uneven. I'm upset I waited way too long to get this started!! Do u think I will have blooms this fall if I get them in within a week ? Sorry for flooding u with questions but Im not familiar with dahlias like I am Roses & other flowers :) thanks cici