Summer at last.

Well there always is light at the end of the tunnel. The coldest winter and coldest wettest spring in recent memory was followed by the driest sunniest summer in decades. I ended up with so many healthy tomato seedlings that I sold them, on consignment, to the local farm and garden store. The store sold nearly $1000 at retail price, representing a 50% mark-up. After costs (plastic pots, etc) my profit was about $400.
I planted over 40 varieties of mainly heirloom tomatoes. They are listed below. The first plant to ripen fruit was Koralik. Its tiny ( 1/2″) fruit have intense tomato flavor. Following close behind are Sausage and Besser.

Here is my tomato list.
Alicante
Amish Paste
Anna Russian
Ananas Noir
Beam’s Yellow Pear
Besser
Black Krim
Black Prince
Bonnie Best
Brandywine
Buckbee’s New 50 Day
Cherokee Purple
Costoluto Genovese
Cuostralee
Camp Joy
Delicious
Eva Purple Ball
Green Zebra
First Pick
Fred Limbaugh
Gill’s All Purpose
Ilse’s Yellow Latvian
Italian Tree
Kellog’s Breakfast
Koralik
Long Keeper
Manitoba
Manyel
Martino’s Roma
Marglobe
Mule Team
Money Maker
Napoli
Neve’s Azorean Red
New Hampshire Surecrop
Old Brooks
Picardy
Porter
Purple Russian
Red Siberian
Russian Big Roma
Rutgers
Saint Pierre
San Marzano
Sausage
Slava
Stupice
Tiffen Mennonite
Tigerella