Looks like a winner.

Do determinate tomato varieties produce larger numbers than indeterminate ?

I've read that rumor on the internets.

Hard to say. Indeterminate is just that , indeterminate.

Determinate doesn't grow as tall and loads up once or twice , then it's done.

Good for when you want a lot of tomatoes all at once for canning.

Then can be pulled to plant something else.

Rick

Well, because basically, I only get tomatoes in the month of June, or that's the only time my plants set fruit , I was advised to go determinate, that I would get more tomatoes.

I don't think so. I think it would be hard to out produce what my Big Beef plants are doing, even if they stop setting fruit in early July and pretty much killed by the blight by the end of July.

Big Beef is a good one for sure.

Rick

I like determinate tomatoes, I have had good luck Big Beef, I have also ask my grand daughter to order me some Beef Master tomato seeds, which should be in, in a few days. I have also had good luck with the Mountain series of plants, it seems as tho Mountain Pride and Mountain Fresh were the two I have grown most often. Because we seldom can any more, we Like to use the space for tomatoes that last into the fall, but long lasting plants seem to be more difficult the past few years.

So Oklahoma Gardening Network was founded on Facebook the last time this group felt it's was continuation threatened. Most of us follow that group. There is also George's Proboards group, Green Country Seed savers. So if Houzz gets flakey, you know where to find us. There are a lot of people in the Facebook group, so if you're looking for a chatty intimate group GC seed savers is closer to this group.

Glad that somebody mentioned the determinate vs indeterminate tomato thing. I was telling my wife about my "grand" plan the other day. I'm going to focus a lot more on determinates this year. Of course, with a few indeterminates as well. I can't resist huge beefsteaks.

My reasoning is exactly what you were talking about. 30's and deluges can come late and 100F (and fungal plagues) can come really fast. It's a tight window. So, I'm looking to plant a majority of early determinate varieties this year. When they give me what they have, i'll yank em/can em and go right to another round of transplants and hope for a good 2nd haul. I'll just consider the indeterminates to be a bonus if the weather/disease is good to them and I get a decent amount.

Old, you mentioned a Thai place in Ft. Smith on an earlier post. Was it Thai garden? We stopped in there about a month back while we were showing the newborn off. Good stuff! I forget what that place used to be. Remember Worldburger? Oh man...that was a delicacy for us when I was growing up.

Hwy20, Tassanee's Thai Cuisine is the place we go most often. I think that there is a place on Towson and on Midland that use to be in old hamburger joints, which are great also. We go out to eat more often now, we are old and I dont like for my wife to have to work making meals like she use to do.

This has been pretty much a wasted day for me. We went to Greenwood to eat, and stayed home and watched rain the rest of the day. I dont think the soil can hold another drop of water.

It looks like it is slow with everyone. The weather here is still about the same, too cold and wet to do much outside. We are still getting light rain, tomorrow looks to be a nice day, but more rain headed in 2 or 3 days, which is normal for this time of the year. We have land ready for potatoes, but it is much too wet tractors out in the garden.

I have plenty of repair work to do, but I am getting to where I don't enjoy that type of work as much as I use to, and of course there always seems to be clean-up work that always needs to be done.

The temp seems to be dropping, I might as well bite the bullet and go ahead and feed the freeloading deer, there is not much else I can do now.

This site is getting glitchy

Larry, read this before you rope a deer.

https://www.cattletoday.com/threads/roping-a-deer.52754/

Amy, thanks for the advice. Maybe I should tell Lynn just come down catch all of them he wants.

I pulled my card out of the camera to see what was hanging around, and noticed I had two pictures of a deer standing on its rear legs. The pictures were taken about 5 minutes apart, so there must be at least one deer that can get mean with its front feet.

Neighbor had said that it looked like the deer were having a party behind our house.