Nothing better than a toasted Engish Muffin, a little salt, pepper and mayo. You could add a bit, just a couple slices of very thin extra sharp chedder.

Yeah...my 2 takes up time  

And you got 60 OMG  

A picture of mine, the only problem I have is staking, they outgrew the cage long time ago....

Have you ever topped a tomato plant to keep in lower and bushier?

My wife really likes this, I do too.....just don't skimp on the balsamic, buy a good brand, thick and flavorful  

Caprese Salad with Balsamic.  

Here are the ones growing along the fence.

Got a fine mesh home supply filter rig, then a anti-backflow valve, then a pressure reducer (15 psi) then a single station programmable timer, then a hose going over and down to the fertilizer injector rig mounted on a board then going down and out to the 1/2" low pressure lines and the long drip tubes at just under ground level.

I will learn as I go, I suspect, but there is lots & lots of info on the net about this stuff.

All those tomato plants are actually sucker clones from the first 3 plants I bought early last spring --- yes, sucker cloning works and you can even sucker clone determinate varieties as long as you take a fresh sucker from before they grow their terminal set of blossoms.

Hybrids will lose their vigor once cloned 2-3 times in a row, which is why (along with the better taste) "disease improved" heirloom tomatoes are so very popular among us hobby type tomato growers.  

You can sucker clone and take seeds from an heirloom variety endlessly (intentionally picking from the strongest best tasting plants that you have grown -- the ones that best fit the environment you live in) and some of the best of the heirloom varieties have disease resistances that have been bred into them over the years.

Flavor is why heirloom varieties are still out there going strong after the 50 years or so of hybrid mania .....   I will be planting some 1910-1930s varieties right along with stuff the pioneers moved across the country that originated in Europe (3 steps from Africa and the Middle East via Italy and France).

Cherokee Purple is one I will grow on the shady side of the back yard in 2020 (origin, NC mountains) along with Black Krim (Crimean Russian origins, supposedly).   These do well in partial shade as most tomatoes do not like it too shady.  

I will also grow Arkansas Traveler out in the hot full sun, a heat setting friendly very good tasting but smaller sized numerically prolific domestic environmentally tuned take on another old world class classic.

Huge, big tomato for a big sandwich slice, I will do Mortgage Lifter and Beefsteak and I will also do its very round (improved shape) daughter, Delicious, a Chicago World's Fair winner from WW1 era.   These are "not for volume production for the freezer" maters as you only get 1-2 really big ones and then a handful of runts off of a vine.   I get so tired of finding lots of mid sized tomatoes that when they run to the runt they get sorta useless.   My poor soil contributes to this runt problem, I think.



When I throw a runt off of this one, it will still be pretty good sized.

I think my wife is fairly happy with her maters.  

She wants to go picking with me every morning when it is still cool, then she sorts out the pretty ones for sandwich slicing while she is washing them and then lays aside the somewhat pretty ones to be given away to her buds.   Then she scalds and chunks and baggies all the split ones, the ill shaped ones and all the runt ones that are ripe enough to go into the hot water.  

She will cut and salvage up to a 50% of damaged tomato, since it is going to be cooked down into a sauce or a tomato casserole anyway.   If it has started to rot or spoil anywhere, it goes into the trash as we got lots of maters and certainly got no need to take any risks.

She says we can likely do with 40 plants, 60 is a bit much.   I point out that the original 20 and the next 20 have gone through their bearing cycle pretty much at this point in time and we only have ever had 20-40 plants actually making maters at any given time during the year.

Her "head and shoulders above the crowd" favorite is Better Boy, simply because it is exactly what she buys from the grocery store and it tastes exactly like a tomato to her  ........ duh .......    

I strongly suspect she will want predominately Better Boys next year as she likes what she likes, but I will stick in some experimental types just to see what they do.

We are in post wave production now, just tag end singles coming ripe by 1-2 a day.

I still have 20 fresh clone plants that haven born a tomato yet, just blossoms and pearl sized maters but now we are in the last month and a half before the first frost of winter, so the next wave of production is the last wave for this year.

Wife is sad, she liked her tomatoes.   She has a freezer load of them too.   I tease her about not being able to use all the frozen ones in the 6 months of winter and she laughs at me.