On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 09:39:25 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 07:07:13 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:
>
>> I put the cherry and one mortgage lifter in one box garden,
>> and another mortgage lifter as the only tomato plant in the
>> other box. Maybe I should have keep like types together.
>> Also I crowded the cherry and mortgage lifter, don't know what I
>> was thinking. Still, I did get flowers.
>
>There's something about flowers not "setting". Maybe that happened to
>you. Looking up mortgage lifer tomatoes just wanting to know if they
>were self pollinates... but I found out there several types within the
>variety.
>http://organicgardening.about.com/od...gagelifter.htm
>
>More importantly, I learned there are determinate and indeterminate
>tomatoes. Who knew? I guess commercial growers want the determinate
>type and home growers want indeterminate.
>http://organicgardening.about.com/od...atotypefaq.htm

The tags stuck in the pots when you buy tomatoes tell you determinate
or indeterminate. Determinates are handy if you like to can tomatoes.
They also use less space.
Janet US