Hi,

I'm planning my tomato garden for 2008 and have some questions on relative plant size. I'll have 2 - 4'x 24' beds with 2 staggered rows each with the plants spaced 4' apart in each row and 2'9" on the diagonal from the plant in the next row. (I'll be doing a Florida weave for each row). I'll have room for 22 plants.

I've grown many of the tomatoes in the list that follows before and have found quite a bit of difference in plant size (Aunt Ginny's Purple 2-3x as large as Black Krim, for example). However, I've had plants in different areas of the yard and conditions affecting plant size (like proximity to walnut trees!!!) have varied so I'm not real clear on the full potential size of all of these plants. I'd be ever so grateful if someone could give me a clue on which of these plants might be humungous and which might be relatively petite - given ideal growing conditions for all:

1. Black from Tula

2. Black Krim

3. Cherokee Purple

4. Japanese Black Trefele

5. Carbon

6. Black Cherry

7. Aunt Gerties Gold

8. Marvel Striped

9. Kellogg's Breakfast

10. German Red Strawberry
    
11. Earl's Faux
    
12. Aunt Ginny's Purple
    
13. Stump of the World
    
14. German Head
    
15. German Johnson
    
16. Pruden's Pruple
    
17. Mexico
    
18. Neves Azorean Red
    
19. Super Sioux
    
20. Dona
    
21. Omar's Lebanese
    
22. Sweet Quartz

Any "must haves" I'm missing? Also, if anyone has any Merced seeds, they'd like to give, sell, or trade (have LOTS of different seeds, just not room for more than 22 this year) let me know. We just moved to Merced and it would be most appropriate for us to try out this variety .

Thanks!

Anne