[lemurian]

Originally Posted by dustdevil

Successful tomato gardening is all in the details..."fussing" as you call it.

Ahh, but some of us are blessed with soil and general conditions that just lend themselves to certain outcomes, and fortunately for me I can plop almost any OP tomato variety in the ground in May, water it for a week or so if it doesn't rain (it usually does) and do nothing but tie it up throughout the rest of the growing season and end up with good tomatoes. Maybe not the most attractive, as our rain is often absent or a deluge, but certainly some of the most delicious.

Almost everything else in my garden requires fussing. My garden is on a southwest slope of a sandy hill with no shade whatsoever in an area where winter can give way to summer in a matter of days.. Some years I fuss over radishes and lettuce!!! But not tomatoes. Eat it