So I bought a few late season gallon size tomato plants. By few I mean four.
Yeah yeah I know it’s June. Yeah yeah I know it’s cheating to buy tomato plants that already have baby tomatoes on them.
Guess what? I don’t care- I just want to maximize my chances of absolute tons of tomatoes.
I marked out where they were to go before I planted them- the two visitacion valley tomatoes in front of the sunflowers, and the better boy and the second black krim in front of the trionfo violetto.
Look, my sun gold has given me *some* tomatoes. A handful so far, and the whole plant looks like it’s going to fall over from aphids. I’m working on it. The sauce pot was a silly experiment with a three in one 2 gallon tomato pot that seems to be doing well, but it’s clearly caterpillar eaten. The San Francisco fog is doing ok, but it hasn’t set out fruit yet, the sweet 100 is an unknowable mystery, and my black krim is starting to produce nicely.
Also dad really wants beefsteaks. Beefsteaks do not do well here- these are the biggest tomatoes I can get that might actually produce good fruit.
So I am indulging a few whims.
I planted them well, and staked them up, and now we wait. The beds should stop the too much water problem the pots have- beds drain better.
In fact next year… but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Here are the baby visitacion valleys- like the San Francisco fog it was bred for us so it should do well- why I bought two.
The better boy is just your garden variety good producer, a sure bet if you will, and since my extant black krim is doing great-
I figure this black krim should do good too.
This is absolute madness, but there is a method to it. See, last year my terrible but wonderful sun gold lived until January of this year. That’s nuts.
And that one, like my current one was kind of a buggy mess (I suspect something wrong with the variety) and if the buggy mess could produce into January… what about a healthier more robust plant? So yeah- I put in the lemon boy and the smurf tomato- and now four more.
Not to mention that our hottest months tend to be August through October (and weirdly last year November), so… maybe I’m not so crazy after all!
Ha ha just kidding, I’m totally nuts!
But I’ll be a crazy person eating tomatoes, so I’ve got that going for me.
The Neanderthal Gardens 
You know, my garden space only became accessible early in May. If I had planted tomatoes then, I would have gotten good sized plants too. I never grow tomatoes from seed, so typically get small six pack. However, because of the late start, I was ready to get larger ones. As it turns out, I got none at all.