You only need an intervention if your life is ruined by the tomato plants...what's the truth? Haha.

You seem perfectly normal to me. Carry on, CaraRose.

If you need and intervention Cara than many of us are well beyond salvaging. ;-) At 76 years old every year I say I'm gonna sit in my rocker on the porch and watch others do all the work. Yet every year I expand my gardens and my number of tomato plants and different varieties increases.

Dave

PS: beautiful plateful there Janice!

I say the same thing every year : "Next season I will cut back drastically the number of varieties and plants " hehe

So far the opposite has been happening. This year I am growing record numbers ( vars. and plants ).

But then there is another year . Next year I am going to cut back by 2/3. Serious :-)

Sey

Thanks Dave. When you say "expand my gardens and my number of tomato plants and different varieties increases.", what kind of numbers are you talking about?

Sey: there are days I go out and I say to myself, this is enough. Then, I start noticing potential new patches. I have about three lists of tomatoes I would like to grow.

I still have some setting and ripening going on, and "learning".

Not counting my containers I garden a little over 1/2 an acre Janice or approx. 22,000+ sq. feet. I think I started 40 varieties this year according to my list and ended up with 34-35 different varieties with 3-4 plants each. Am finding several new varieties that I won't be trying again like Genuwine, Gardener's Choice, Gurney's Girl Best, Wayahead, and Azoychka.

Dave

It is hard for me to contemplate that many plants. My methods will not scale to that many. My "clip boarding" would take......about 90 minutes.

i recall you drip irrigate and fertigate. That should save time.

i have seen your recommended grow lists in previous posts. I will be trying them. I will be doing more research during the "armchair" growing season. Of those listed above, where have they been disappointing? Is it in the growing or production, or mainly taste?

Genuwine - very low disease resistance (lowest of all my varieties), minimal production, very ruffled fruit to the point of being distorted and ugly. Don't know taste yet just hoping at least a couple will ripen and be salvageable.

Gardener's Choice - huge potato leaf plants (already 8' tall and still growing) with multiple fused stems and fused blossoms on all 3 plants, low fruit set so far with lots of cat facing. Fruit are good sized

Gurney Girl's Best - supposedly an improved Early Girl (which I normally avoid) but this one isn't nearly as disease resistant as even old Early Girl is. Both plants slow to grow and slow to set fruit. Just not impressed.

Wayahead - good early production, first ripe fruit, 4 oz reds, just average flavor at best like many other earlies.

Azoychka - yellow, early fruit set of 6 beefsteak size (1 at colorbreak) but all 3 plants just look 'weak' and tired and struggling by comparison for some reason just like last year. So just babying them along to colorbreak and will then pull and replace. Don't know taste yet.

Everything else fruit-wise is still green, green, green.

Dave

I am feeling jealous of the size of Dave's gardens and all the tomato varieties he can fit there ;)

Thanks Dave. I look forward to your photos. Fruit setting is slowing down here. I believe temps have been uncharacteristicly cool (that is my impression, need to check) for June.