On 8/3/2014 12:39 PM, 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.

Interesting, thanks!

> More importantly, I learned there are determinate and indeterminate
> tomatoes.

If you want to can tomatoes, you might want the determinate
variety so that they are all ripe at the same time. I don't
can, I just want a tomato or three coming in every day during the
season, so I choose indeterminate.

nancy