I'd say we're pretty luck to have tomatoes this year with the consistent and persistant rains we had earlier this spring.

Spring doesn't officially start until March 20, but yes, those rains were insane for this being our "dry" seaon. Our retention pond didn't fill all summer, but it sure was full then, and the ducks loved it. I put a plastic bag around my buckets at the base of the plants to keep them from drowning. I've had to add lots of extra holes around the sides of my pots to ensure proper drainage.

Deb, No tomatoes yet but I have flowers on the Everglades, the yellow cherry bells and the chocolate cherries!

I'm sort of jealous. We still have snow on the ground here :( (Zone 5).

Sorry to hear about your snowy situation, ilove. We just had two nights at 38 degrees, but today was back to shorts and tank and flip flops.

I also moved huge tomato plants in and out for the cold nights. One beefsteak I started from seed in September had such big maters on it that I had to tie them up so they wouldn’t break off when we lugged it into the shed. Ate them a couple weeks ago...... so yummy..... totally worth the trouble.

I live in central florida and all my tomatoes are doing very well since I did not even cover them when they hit the 40s the last few days. I have red everglades tomatoes already on the vine and one beefsteak tomato is about the size of 2 golf balls. Last year by far my best cherry tomato was the chocolate sprinkles. I gave everything a shot of fishy water today and decided to let everything bush out. My only problem is I have a tiny garden because I rent and last year I had nematodes hits so I am praying they are all dead. For about 4-5 months I let some shrimp meal sit in the soil which is suppose to attack nematode killing bugs.

We had our first rain last night finally and went I went out this morning I was in disbelief. My tomatoes went crazy overnight. For example, I planted a small chocolate springs on March 7th. It usually takes about 2-3 weeks before the root system catches on and yesterday it was still very tiny. This morning it had tripled in size- overnight. My other tomato plants probably grew 3-4 inches overnight also. I usually get excited at this time of the year only to watch disease and bugs destroy my garden but I did thinks a big differently this year and am hoping and praying things continue because this is the best my small garden has ever looked. The only thing not growing great are my chinese long beans but they probably need more heat and they are suppose to grow slowly anyway.

That's great about your tomatoes. I don't bring mine in unless it's going below freezing. If it's only going to freeze for a couple of hours, I usually just cover them.

You never kill all the nematodes. They are ubiquitous in our soil. The more organic matter you add to the soil, the less they like it.

my sungold tomatoes, planted in february, have 1 in tomatoes should ripen soon (transplants not seeds)

I want to try a yellow tomato, and I hear sungold is the best one for down here.