Lots of Sungold and Green Grape, a few Black Cherry, a large bowl full of Silvery Fir Tree, some Stupice, and one each of Marianna's Peace, Earl's Faux, Brandywine, Aunt Gertie's Gold, Cherokee Green, and Azoychka. I started my seeds early this year and transplanted fairly large plants, plus that heat wave was good for ripening fruits early, no?

I've harvested some Jaune Flammee - like a very large sungold, and a Rose and a Brandywine. The latter two were from gallon plants put in in May.

I had one Early Girl last week. Another has just started to ripen. The other varieties will need a couple of more weeks.

Quite a few Stupice, Matina, Black Cherry, 1 Eva Purple Ball and Peron Sprayless, a few New Big Dwarf from a plant growing in pot.
Susan

Something kind of funny.... I gave tomato plants that I grew from seed to my sisters, two in Iowa and one in Nebraska (all of them about 150 miles south of me). The one in Nebraska has been eating tomatos off of the plants I gave her for a couple of weeks now and I'm still waiting for my first ones to start ripening!

Thank you to everyone who has posted here.

RunningRiot, I'm impressed by your early Eva Purple Ball--she's one of my favorites. My plants are covered with fruit, but none are close to ripening.

Bitterwort, I looked up the Silver Fir Tree tomato and it sounds like a plant pretty enough to be planted as an ornamental. What are the fruit like? Brandywines are very slow developing and ripening for me, I'm amazed you have had them so early.

Clark106, I grew some Jaune Flammee last year, but they weren't much like a large Sungold. Mine were about 3" in diameter, very flat, and marbled beautifully with orange and yellow--a very pretty tomato and great on BLT's. I've suspected they were Hillbilly instead.

Althea, Early Girl was one my father planted for many years, always produced in zone 3 WI.

Jel48, I feel your pain... The Siberian Early's and Lyanas I gave my sister who lives north of me produced ripe fruits before the ones I planted did.

Thanks also to those of you who sent emails but did not post here.

Kate

Silvery Fir Tree does make a very pretty plant, and I was growing it in a pot on the front steps, more as an ornamental and curiosity than anything. It's determinate and made a ton of 2-3" tomatoes before it gave out (dead now--I didn't have it staked well enough and I think the stem failed in a wind). I think I quit counting at 35 fruits, and I still have a large bowl full. Taste? They were not bad, not sweet, but not as tart as I'd been led to expect from others' comments. They were fine on sandwiches and I don't feel at all bad cooking with them, but they certainly don't have the more complex flavor that some of the later tomatoes have. Still, I may put one in a pot or in the ground next year, just because they're so early and prolific.

My Silvery Fir didn't make it either - they can't handle the exceptionally hot weather we are having.

I'm feasting on the first of my Caspian Pinks tonight - purrrr! They are the best! My German Red Strawberries are exploding, and neither of them have been touched by the blossom end rot a lot of others have been getting this year. All my others are quite prolific as well. My earliest were Marmande and Tom Cat - both pretty nice, ordinary toms.

-Marie

I'm starting to get a bunch of main season tomatoes now, thanks to the hot weather. If you're interested in trying a number of heirloom tomato varieties and are free this Saturday, consider attending the Dowling Community Garden tomato tasting, held in conjunction with their annual heirloom festival. Check the link for details.

Here is a link that might be useful: Dowling tomato tasting