Yeah! I started picking tomatoes this week :)

The first to ripen have been the 'Black Plum' and so far have picked about 10. These 2 plants are LOADED! I've picked only 2 'Black Cherry' and they are not as productive here as others say they are in other areas. In total on a 5' plant I would say I have about 15 tomatoes! It's my 2nd year trying these. Last year was a late start for 'Black Cherry' (June) because first sowing failed so 15 is way more than I got last year LOL! I've picked 1 'Russian Purple' and so far just 1 'Cherokee Green' a few days ago from 2 plants. I haven't even removed any suckers this year and their are few of them anyways...hmmm.

I plan to try the 'Cherokee Green' today and hope they are as yummy as I've read about on the Tomato Forum!!

My determinate 'Manitoba' and 'Russian Persimmon' are also way loaded and am just now starting to see a little color on the 'Manitoba'.

BTW I did kinda cheat a bit on the tomatoes. I sowed them all on 4/19 but between about 5/1 and 5/5 I started taking in the gal. jugs at night time only.As soon as I had 1-2 seeds with radical emergence I took them right back out to finish doing their thing. All seedlings were finally planted out May 30th. The rest of what I didn't plant I gave away and even though they were just around the corner (say about 4 blocks) she lost quite a few of her seedlings to frost! There must have been some kinda of frost pocket in her backyard...how strange!