Bonehead said: I only grow 5 plants each season, and try to find my favorites as well as try new ones. I don't grow from seed, I let my local nurseries do that for me...
It sounds like time to get beyond your comfort zone.
While I'm blessed with a very long season....
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It should still be possible for you to both grow from seed painlessly, AND....
Allow tomato volunteers to grow.
At my house....
I scatter seed on a large nursery pot, and as the plants get large enough to handle, decant the plants and repot into gallon size nursery pots, eventually planting them out in the garden... If your weather is less hot, you might be able to skip a step.
Volunteers are great!
When tomato plants come up as weeds, dig them up and move them around!
I have blooms on some volunteer Everglades maters that came up in the pot that I had sweet potatoes growing in..... I set out one, potted up another, and the sweet potato is in the ground too.
My black tomatoes don't have names, they're just some decendents of maters someone was fixing to toss several years ago.
Last December:
Not terrifically dark any more....
