>> Its always fun, anyway.
I agree. It's always challenging, but we make progress. For me, cherry tomatoes were successful one year when even "early" medium-size tomatoes don't have time to ripen and bear much.
Are you in a part of Texas where the summer is too hot for tomatoes? I've read that some people start them early (maybe under plastic) to get a spring crop, and then start another crop later to be harvested in the fall.
Even though they and I are both "Zone 8", we have opposite seasons for tomatoes. I ONLY get grow enough to them during the time that their part of Texas is too hot to grow them. Their "tomato growing months" are my "cold wet, sulky bad-tasting months".
