I planted it last year. It was in a group planted late because of the excessive rain we had. It was a bad tomato year for me, so it wasn't a fair test, but I don't remember getting any fruit from it. From what I've read, it is a late season plant, so don't get discouraged yet.

Amy, my tomatoes did poorly last year, too. Every other year, I do a big crop of tomatoes and put them up (mostly in my deep freeze). I only put in 7 plants last year, and it was a bust from all the rain.

I heard you should beat your tomatoes with a switch if they don't set on fruit.

I actually DO "spank" my tomatoes;) I'm in and out of my tomato patch all the time, and sometimes I'll pick up a small stick from the yard and gently switch the branches. Or, when walking through I'll thump the trusses. Or....and this one is the most hilarious...I have an electric toothbrush...just for the tomatoes and I'll vibrate each truss. Even my grandson has learned that we sometimes spank our tomatoes! lol Because of all the shade, I'm on the low-end of the acceptable light range, and I'm surprised that I get the production I get...I think some of it comes from encouraging those blossoms to set.

Dawn, I understand about not wanting to use the "Cadillac" tomatoes for salsa. My daughter that lives here doesn't have a discerning palate, and neither does my former son-in-law. Brandywines are wasted on them anyway. I love them, but I can't eat them all, so they wind up in salsa or the freezer;) My youngest daughter is an engineer for Nissan in Tennessee, and she loves tomatoes, so once the production comes on hard, I send her carefully packed packages of my best tomatoes in the "breaker stage", so that she has all the fresh tomatoes she wants. The only bad thing is...she travels a lot so I can't send her as much as I would like.

I tried the electric tootbrush last year. I was TRYING to save seed and bagging trusses. NONE of them took, NONE. I grew Nebraska Wedding last year. It was prolific, but a fruit worm magnet. And it cracked. And it was probably watered down flavor on the few I actually got to eat. I hope we have a better tomato year this year.

Mary, There is only so far I will go, and the electric toothbrush thing (very popular with lots of people) is just sort of farther than I will go. Maybe if I had fewer plants, but I just can't imagine taking the time to buzz the flowers on 100 tomato plants. If y'all think I whine about there not being enough hours in the day now, just imagine how much worse it would be if I was trying to hand-pollinate all the flowers on 100 plants. I'd be stark raving mad after a bit, especially on days when the temperature (or heat index) is too intense by 9 a.m.

I get great yields on plants in as little as 6 hours of sun, and in some drought years when I expected really bad conditions, I have grown tomatoes in containers deliberately sited to get only 4-6 hours of sunlight. I think they do better in those containers in the hottest, driest years than they do in the ground, especially if in the ground in full sun.

How sweet it is that you mail tomatoes to your daughter. I am sure she really appreciates it. What a wonderful CARE package from home that must be!

Amy, Nebraska Wedding is Tim's favorite tomato, which I think he only recently mentioned to me, which made me feel bad that I don't grow it more often. It is such a disease magnet in our garden, but the fruit always are dense and thick and have wonderful flavor. They are very good in a good year, but I also think he associates them with the summer of 2004 when his best friend's two boys were building our detached barn-style garage. Our families were together a lot that summer and we ate lots of Nebraska Wedding tomatoes, which were absolutely superb. Even the best friend's mom and sister, while visiting from the northeastern US, came over daily for two weeks to pick and eat Nebraska Wedding tomatoes, which quickly became his mom's favorite tomato. Little did we know then that the best friend, whose name was Ken, wouldn't live to see another summer because he would pass away the following year quite soon after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. I cannot eat a Nebraska Wedding tomato to this day without remembering that summer so I suspect Tim is the same way. There are orange tomatoes I like better that produce better, but I try to keep Nebraska Wedding in the rotation for him.

Dawn

Well one of the plants has finally put on a tomato. There are blooms, too. They must've heard me threaten to pull them out;)

Now, if only it will produce a nice big tasty fruit. Which, by the way, would shock me (the tasty part) if it happened.

lol. 'Bout my luck.

I got a bunch of tomatoes from this variety, but I found them to be pretty bland and boring. Weird though many of my tomatoes did not grow well at all this year.