By last approximate count, we have over 150 tomato plants of about 40 varieties growing in small pots. By night, they rest on the ledge in the garage in temperatures around 55 degrees, and catch a couple of hours of warm morning sun through the windows of the garage. Each morning, we carry them out into the garden and let them bask in the direct sunlight for several hours, before bringing them in again in the late afternoon.
There are just three problems with this routine. First, as the tomatoes get repotted again and again into larger and larger pots, they are getting heavier to schlep in and out every day. Second, larger pots means more shelf space required for the nighttime beds, and we're out of shelf space. (We've got some flats of eggplant seeds sprouting in the garage, also.) And finally, some of us (i.e., Perry) can't wait to get some tomatoes into the ground. So today, he put in five plants in the sunniest spot in the garden: a Pineapple (red and yellow, up to 2 pounds), a Hawaiian Pineapple (golden-orange, up to 1.5 pounds), an Earl of Edgecombe (medium-sized, round, orange), a Marizol Red (1-pound large, bright red), and a Chocolate Stripe (3-4 inch, mahogany colored). These are some of the sweetest, best tasting, and best for BLTs and caprese salads...and we have lots of the plants still growing in pots.
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