On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 12:50:51 -0600, BryanGSimmons
> wrote:

>On 3/7/2021 7:37 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 05:16:07 -0800 (PST), Bryan Simmons
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If you want great tomatoes, you either have to pay really high prices
>>> or grow your own. I'm going to plant a lot of them this year, and I'm
>>> going for interesting varieties. I'm ordering from these folks.
>>> https://www.tomatofest.com/aboutus.asp
>>> They are total tomato nerds, and their prices aren't too high. Sunlight
>>> is free, and digging in soil is mentally restorative.
>>
>> I have ordered from them at times in the past. They are fine
>> suppliers.
>>
>> I save tomato seeds from year to year from varieties that have done
>> well and had interesting tastes. Some varieties breed true, others
>> have developed into variants of their own, often with interesting
>> results.
>>
>> I do grow a lot of cherry/smaller type fruits, too, as I live next to
>> 150 acres of wood and get more than my fair share of predators. If I
>> grow smaller fruits, I generally get to keep some for harvest. Larger,
>> beefsteak sorts can produce few enough fruits that a bunch of
>> chipmunks, raccoons and groundhogs can end them altogether.
>>
>> Last year I bought a small container of "heirloom" and unusual
>> cherries of all colors, shapes and sizes. I over ripened a dozen or so
>> of them, harvested the seed, and planted them in seed pots. I got some
>> terrific fruits as the season went on..
>>
>There's an area where we camp where there's a little clearing.
>It's small, but the northern edge of it should get plenty of
>sunlight for tomatoes. The "soil" there is basically just rock,
>but this Spring we're going out there with pick, mattock and
>shovel, and a few bags of topsoil to clear an area to start
>these.
>http://yougrowgirl.com/tomatoes-wort...white-currant/

Not sure I have ever seen these, although I have often had tiny
yellow, and little reds we you describe below.

>I've grown red currants before. I'd also like to put one
>oddball out there to get x pollinated by the currant.
>Maybe this.
>https://www.tomatofest.com/Blue_Berr...p/tf-0070e.htm
>
>Anyway, I figure that if I get the white currants growing there,
>they'll self seed every year. We've already put some tame
>blackberries in out there right next to the ones that have been
>there for ages.

Tomato volunteers are wonderful. I let fruit drops stay in the beds
and tubs at the end of the season and get some lovely surprises the
following spring.