Hey! I'm in your area. I plan to start my tomato seeds inside on January 15. My old gardening friends always have theirs in the ground on March 1. We had bad weather last year and I got our garden in a month late. Peas go in anytime now. Potatoes go in on Feb 14th. I've never tried a second crop. Instead start your cold weather veggies by seed in Sept. instead. Our first cold snap was Nov. 2 this year. That wouldn't have left enough time for a second tomato crop.We let our tomatoes grow all summer long when most people yank them out. We fight the bugs and the heat, but production has still been great.

Hey! I'm in your area. I plan to start my tomato seeds inside on January 15. My old gardening friends always have theirs in the ground on March 1. We had bad weather last year and I got our garden in a month late. Peas go in anytime now. Potatoes go in on Feb 14th. I've never tried a second crop. Instead start your cold weather veggies by seed in Sept. instead. Our first cold snap was Nov. 2 this year. That wouldn't have left enough time for a second tomato crop.We let our tomatoes grow all summer long when most people yank them out. We fight the bugs and the heat, but production has still been great.

You can start sawing tomato seeds in August for second crop, pick up the green tomatoes before hard freeze/frost and put them in the brown bag, will be red eventually. I did that before.

This post was edited by JCTsai on Thu, Dec 25, 14 at 19:17

I didn't have good luck with heirlooms the last two years. They just start to produce and then they died. I think it was too hot for them. I grew Arkansas Traveler and Purple Cherokee. Sungolds did the best for me. They are not heirlooms. They took the heat and produced like crazy.

I am in the Jax area (outside of Jax) The times when my tomatoes do the best here are in drier years. If it rains all summer like it has been lately they get bad quick with fungal issues.
If it is a drier year even the heirlooms do great and I usually have tomatoes from Spring till fall. Then can plant some fall ones that will go until frost (usually late Nov to mid Dec) You can use frost cloth to extend the season a little.
I have a greenhouse that is makeshift that I keep up Dec-the beginning of March. I could easily grow tomatoes in there but don't because the space it reserved for all the massive amounts of tropicals that I grow.
I am starting my tomato and pepper seeds now. I grow most of them from seed especially peppers due to the lack of available varieties in the stores around here.

Sultry jasmine I've always grown my tomatoes from seed too for the same reason. What varieties do you grow? Up north I grew Pineapple, Morgage Lifter, Thessaloniki, Amish Paste and Grape. Have you ever tried any
of them? I plan to pull a couple of container tomato plants in my greenhouse for Dec-Feb. i'm in Middleburg. Where are you?

This post was edited by bea2014 on Tue, Dec 30, 14 at 20:22

Sultry jasmine I've always grown my tomatoes from seed too for the same reason. What varieties do you grow? Up north I grew Pineapple, Morgage Lifter, Thessaloniki, Amish Paste and Grape. Have you ever tried any
of them? I plan to pull a couple of container tomato plants in my greenhouse for Dec-Feb. i'm in Middleburg. Where are you?

I just moved here from Oklahoma where I was growing my first crop of Cherokee tomatoes, which were doing awesome when I moved. My question is will those grow well in the Pensacola area and what about planting them in a container? I don't have much yard here but there is nothing better to me than home grown tomatoes.
Thanks, Kim