It’s easy to grow tomatoes from seed, although you will need a grow light if you don’t have a window that gets six-to-eight hours of sun, and a warming mat if the room you’re using to sprout the seeds is below 70 degree Fahrenheit. Your last frost date will be around May 15 — the best age for the transplants to be planted is age six-to-eight weeks. Allow a week for germination. Nights are usually chilly for the last couple of weeks in May, so there’s no rush to plant by May 15. Frost-wise, you are better off a day late than a day early.

Let me know how you do.

Cynthia

My personal favorite heirloom tomato is Brandywine, Sudduth’s strain. It produces well for me and tastes the best. I also love having unusual colors and shapes of tomatoes. So Orange Russian 117 is marbled yellow and red and shaped like a one-pound strawberry. Berkeley Tie-Dye is green and red in a tie-dye pattern and is delicious, as is Black-and-Brown Boar — both are from Bradley Gates. For yellow tomatoes: Aunt Gertie’s Gold, Lillian’s Yellow. For orange tomatoes: Kellogg’s Breakfast, Jumbo Jim Orange. My favorite cherry tomatoes are Wild Cherry, aka Matt’s Wild Cherry, and Galina’s Yellow Cherry.

What varieties do you grow?

Cynthia

I’m actually working on a book on that subject. What state/growing region do you live in?

Cynthia

Thank you! I wish you and all my dear gentle readers progress, prosperity, health, success, love and every blessing now and always.

Cynthia