On 5/20/2012 11:07 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2012 09:42:42 -0400, Nancy Young<replyto@inemail>
> wrote:

>> This year I didn't plant any grape tomatoes. Wonder if I
>> should pick up a cherry tomato plant just so I really am
>> overburdened with tomatoes.

> I always include at least one or two types of cherry tomato. They come
> in earlier and even I almost always get a decent yield. With the
> regular tomato plants, every year it is a gardener's battle against
> whichever pest is most active, be it insect, mold or critters.

You're right, especially as I only grew one type of tomato, Mortgage
Lifters. I hope that at least two plants do well, but if we have
a summer like last year, it was too hot, I didn't get a lot of tomates.

Except the grape tomatoes (Napa). They didn't give up, it was
funny to see hundreds of them all over the kitchen. Not complaining.

> Some years those battles are won quite well, other years, the yield is
> down or worse, wrecked at the end of a growing season, but with
> cherries, there are always some fresh and delightful fruits almost
> every day once they get going.

You're right, I'm going to pick up a cherry tomato plant.

Nice to see you.

nancy