Perhaps the most special food crop one can grow in a garden is tomatoes. The varieties, colors, sizes, textures, shapes, and flavors are so numerous! And "heirlooms" purchased in a grocery in season, assuming they're available at all, are limited in type and priced at $9 per pound and up. That's $9 per tomato!
We started in early February, sprouting about 35 different varieties of tomatoes in flats placed next to a window in the garage that gets morning sun. Each cell has about 8 seeds in it, so if we get 4-5 seeds sprouted per cell, that will be upwards of 120 plants! In a few days, we'll separate the sprouts and repot them into larger pots, still keeping them growing indoors (for now).
So, give it a go! There are several suppliers of heirloom tomato seeds that you can find on the Web. (See, for example, www.tomatofest.com.) They're easy to sprout from seeds, and you'll have enough plants to give some away, and still keep yourself in BLTs and insalate caprese all summer.
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