Sey .... I have grown most on your planted to date list. I see you have a mystery black. I have one as well that I call Obviously Not Green Zebra. Mine is a large beefsteak that showed up in a dedicated Green Zebra Bed. It looks similar to Paul Robeson and the taste was fantastic. I forgot about that one when I was making my 2017 list and your Mystery reference jogged my memory. I've got some pictures somewhere that I will try to post. I've also got a F2 I call Awesome Purple Heart. One day last summer, my DH brought me a couple of heart shaped fruit but he couldn't remember which bed/plant he got them from. I did not intentionally grow any hearts last year. I grew 46 varieties last year and to date have been unable to figure it out. So I ate one (excellent) and saved the seeds from the other. I will be attempting to grow out at least 4 of these this year .... we'll see what I get. "Sun Gold @ 3.5 days." That's quick. Have grown it side-by-side with Sun Sugar the last 2 years. As you know, both are excellent. They grow into quite the jungle for me; exceeding the limits of large texas tomato cages w/extensions. Shell

We had our dinner today. The ham was the best part, Elery smoked it about 10 hours, after 36 hours in brine, then half was served with a pineapple sauce and half without. We had baked beans, broccoli/cauliflower salad, green beans with bacon, whole wheat/butternut squash rolls, and Nancync's gluten free brioche, which came out very well: The coconut cake was decorated with Peeps and filled with coconut cream, then frosted with a coconut/cream cheese frosting: The kids were busy eating the chocolate that they found inside the Easter eggs, so they didn't want any other dessert. We got out the special Easter deviled egg plate and Mother's old Easter tablecloth from the 50s, we use it every year. We also had blueberry crisp and chocolate cream pie, but no one ate dessert except the Princess, who had this piece of cake. Everyone else ate too much ham! The only fail, and there's always one, were those blasted potatoes. Even though I don't like cheese and the Princess doesn't like sauced anything, I made au gratin. Found a recipe that called for heavy cream, gouda cheese, butter, garlic. Gotta be good, right? Two hours at 350 and the potatoes were still hard. Cranked the oven up to 450 for half an hour, still hard. Put them in the microwave for 15 minutes, the microwave overheated and died and those potatoes were still hard. We gave up on the potatoes, even with $15 worth of gouda and cream, and ate everything else. The girls split up the potatoes and took them home, they are going to try to cook them some more. Ugh, I didn't even want to look at them again and was going to compost them, but the girls couldn't pass up all that cheese, LOL. And so Elery and I took a trip into town and bought a new microwave after everyone went home. Annie

I have always grown Tiny Tim for over 40 years. Have given hundreds away. It has one characteristics that no other tomato has that I know of. It loves shade. Timmy will grow happily and produce well where it is never touched by sunlight. That is a phenomenal characteristic. I only grow it to give to people in apartments or with totally shaded yards. They can pick their own tomatoes, and be proud to have grown them. Taste is not great, but good in a salad. Another great characteristic is that it will grow as big or small as you want. Grow it in a 6-oz styrofoam coffee cup, and it becomes an adorable little 6-inch plant loaded with tomatoes for your office desk. A novelty, but absolutely adorable! In a regular deep 4-gallon pot, it grows about 2 feet tall, also loaded with tomatoes. Stems are pretty strong to hold up all that fruit. They flop, but do not break. Twice, I have given to different people a novelty coffee cup of cute little Timmy, and they planted it in full sun when it was already full of tomatoes. They died, probably because it could not root well and continue producing. But it may be that Timmy can not stand full sun. I grew Red Robin once, and I concluded that it was probably just another name for Timmy. But I did not test it in a no-light situation or in 6-oz cups. Tiny Tim is no Sungold in taste. But it has its own special niche in low light and in cute tiny containers.

Thanks, nbm! The trellis is custom built by yours truly :) we have another one, also covered with squash, that is in a raised bed. This is our first year growing the Turban squash - we've had butternuts for a few years and are branching out this season. If you want a real showstopper squash you might try Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck: imagine a butternut with a longer, curved neck on it. The biggest one from our garden weighed in at 20 pounds! The flesh is a bit more watery than butternut, but similar in flavor.