Pacific Northwest Gardening: Apropos of Nothing v.15, 1 by Kur

Kur wrote:
Hehehe, last year was the first year in a long time I got brave enough again to try growing tomatoes… I was tired of losing ‘my babies’ to the blight. So I decided I would be less emotionally attached if I bought them at nurseries. I limited myself to two Big Beefs, 2 sungolds, and one weird purple cherry variety of some kind. I put them in the most sheltered and sunniest part of my yard, right up next to the house… it is always 10 degrees warmer there, because the heat bounces off the light-colored siding. Well, they loved it, and we had a bumper-crop of Big Beefs, just off those two plants. I didn’t like the taste of the sungold (which is weird, because people seem to love them) maybe they got too hot? And the purple tomatoes were inedible… So this year, of course, I went hogwild with what did work. I started the Big Beefs from seed as well as Stupice (to hedge my bets in case of a short season)… I also had great success last year with four eggplants in the same location… So this year, of course, I have 18 ‘Gretel’ and 15 ‘Udmalbets’… ;)