Green Thumbs: Gardening in Northern Utah

**I don’t know why the formatting for pictures is all messed up.  Sorry about that.  I’ve tried to fix it 3 or 4 times and I’m done messing.

At the Salt Lake Farmers Market in mid-June, we found 2 kids selling a 6 pack of tomato starts for $1 or $2.  Each hole had a different heirloom start.  We had 1 or 2 that got killed by the awful tomato worm, but I am eagerly awaiting the first tomatoes from the rest.  One of the plants, I think Valencia, has enormous leaves like I’ve never seen on a tomato plant.  What we started out with  (these are random pictures from the web, not our actual harves):

Brandywine Tomato:

Valencia Tomato: there are green, orange and red varities, and I don’t know which we have

Japanese Black Trifle:

Black Prince:

Green Zebra:

We also planted the basic tomatoes: grapes, Super Sweet 100s, Early Girls, and a Roma.