The early tomato thread

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My tomatoes were started in early march indoors under lights, and transplanted to the greenhouse (unheated) mid-April. That's a month earlier than the usual transplant date for greenhouse tomatoes at farms in this area. It was cold, no doubt about it. Many of the plants set and grew just one tomato early on, like it was their last chance to seed themselves. There was a gap of at least a week between the first two Kimberley and others coming on, same for Beaverlodge Plum and I expect to see the same with others. The Kimberley crop is really coming in now at the same time as Stupice, although it was pretty amazing to have even a lone ripe fruit of any kind in the middle of June!
I picked my first slicers today, yep they're still pretty firm and I'll let them ripen a bit before we taste em...