It's Official.....I Am A Tomato Lemming

As of yesterday, it is finally officially warm enough here to plant tomatoes, so I have made a couple very excited trips to Fred Meyer to pick up plants.  The problem is, of course, that Andy let me go alone and unsupervised.  

We have a relatively short growing season, so my favorite tomato plants are Early Girls.  They aren't fussy, they taste good, and they come on early.  I love plants that just do what they need to do without too much input from me.  And, since do a lot of canning, I always plant Roma tomatoes.  They're really good roasted as well, so they're a MUST.

Then I found a Lemon Boy tomato plant, which we successfully grew last year & I really liked their flavor, so I needed one of those tomato plants.

Then they had a really cool purple tomato plant, and I like to try an heirloom tomato every year.  And the heirloom tomatoes seem to enjoy kicking my arse every year, so we understand our relationship.  I will diligently water it, excitedly check every day for new tomato blossoms, and it will reward my efforts with one scraggly tomato which will probably be cracked & may even harbor some bugs.  So I never really count the heirloom tomato.  It's sort of like my yearly sacrifice to the Garden God of Futility.  Or the bugs.

Then I found a yellow pear tomato--those little tomatoes that they often have on overpriced relish trays--and they're quite good, so I had to have one of those....

THEN I found a Sweet 100, and last year all my friends raved and raved about how wonderful the little cherry tomatoes were.....so I of course needed one of those.

So, for anyone keeping track.........I have now planted THIRTEEN tomato plants, which is a new record for both tomato plants AND insanity for me.

And did I happen to mention the two tomatillo plants that I got as well?