Tomatoes!!!

Tomatoes were the first plant that I ever successfully grew on my balcony back in the old apartments. AND THEN THE DAMN SQUIRRELS CAME AND ATE ALL MY HARD WORK!!! Needless to say, I am still a little bitter about it. Now, I have a plastic owl to combat this...and two dogs that run around like crazy animals anytime I let the screen door open. I am hoping that the squirrels do not wise up to the fact that the dogs are only let out in the morning and evening during the weekdays....


This is the first year that I am trying to start them from scratch aka seed...typically I just buy the young plant from the local garden shop and everything works out.  Most of the time. But this can be really expensive for the amount of tomatoes that I want to have/eat/can/stare at with longing. So....here goes nothing.

I tried to start a mixture of different type of tomatoes. I planted 2 determinate tomatoes (good for canning) and several heirloom (indeterminate) tomatoes. I tried to plant sauce tomatoes as well as salad tomatoes, red and yellow, etc. I planted them at 5:30 on the Ides of March. I am little late in planting them since it says 5-6 weeks before the last frost date. In my area the last frost date is April 11th which would mean that I should have planted it at the beginning of this month, but 1. I didn't get the seeds/have time since this week and 2. I want to make sure the plants don't die off when I transplant them because of the cold weather or a sudden late frost.


I then froze the leftover seeds just in case this thing is a success and I want to use them next year.


Fingers crossed.