Jim Paterson wrote in message
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"bigboard" wrote in message
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Hello all,

In my first year with my own garden this year, I had quite a bit of
success with Gardener's Delight and Balconi Red cherry tomatoes. Both
were delicious, but weren't big and juicy enough for my ketchup recipe.
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Go for Alicante which is probably the best choice or for hardiness v
quality
Moneymaker.
Tomatoes are far hardier than most folks give credit for. They wont
tolerate
frost though and will be blackened like dahlias.
Just a tip. When planting outdoors, water the plants in then do NOT give
water for at least ten, yes TEN days, even longer if poss and once they
are
growing away, forget about watering. all you are doing is encouraging the
roots to stay near the surface and making a rod for your own back in the
process. Jim


Wandering slightly from the topic but... it was my first year with tomatoes
and I decided to grow an outdoor variety (gardener's delight) indoors, I
left two plants outside because they wouldn't fit inside. Anyway, the plants
outdoors produced perfect tomatoes but all the plants indoors produced very
poor tomatoes, only suitable for cooking. It definitely proved to me that
tomatoes can be quite hardy things. I grew outdoor cucumbers indoors aswell
(burpee) but the results there were excellent and I can't imagine they would
have done half as good outside, where they were supposed to be.