Just had my first ripe, from my garden tomatoes

[Cheryl Isaak]

One was a sun gold (yellow) cherry and the other a "Green Grape". Yum C

[John McGaw]

I've been having them for a couple of weeks now. The "Sweet 100" plant gives me 10-20 cherry tomatoes daily now and the growth of the plant is so rank and rampant that it threatens to take over the back yard even though it is growing in a homemade "Earth Box" planter sitting on the rear retaining wall. Sadly the other tomato in the planter is not looking so well since I broke off a major part of it while trying to re-tie it to the support. It has a few blossoms but that its all. That's a "German Queen", an heirloom variety which is noted for excellent taste but skimpy production. Hope that I get _something_ from that one.

Next year I'll experiment with some sort of an espalier arrangement -- caging simply has not worked out for me at all.