Very excited, am attempting some heirloom varieties in a separate bed away from the main raised tomato bed where I have hybrids growing. And unlike last year the heirlooms are healthy and thriving and full of flowers. Even tho I rotate tomatoes on a three year cycle in my raised lasagna beds, last year the two heirlooms I attempted were sickly looking with a wilt disease, probably verticulum.
Someone somewhere mentioned that heirlooms do not fare well in the intensive close plantings that we often use in raised beds. Also last summer we had a an unusually rainy summer. This year is more normal rain and heirlooms have room to breathe. Now I can have the plenty of hybrids and novelty of heirlooms. Just no yard because it will all be turned into vegetable production.
