rlb
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I purchased the seeds based off the "Top Sellers" so I didn't choose but they're Packman.
That's what I planted last year. It's definitely much more heat tolerant than the home depot crap. IIRC we got a few smaller heads and some side shoots from most plants, and that was with a late outdoor transplant of April 24. Based on the book I use they should go into the ground ~3/24. Thankfully this year all of my beds are pretty much ready to go, I just need to mix in some amendments, so I should be able to hit that target without a problem.
On tomatoes, last year I grew RU 250, Early Girls, cherry, and Brandywines. The brandywines never did much, but the rest all produced tons. I think I'm going to stick with the RUs this year because they started producing at the same time as the EGs but with better size and flavor. Overall my tomatoes didn't do as well as they should have because I was just too crowded and I had some resulting disease issues. So this year I will find a replacement for the early girls and stick with the same remaining varieties, just 1/2 the number of plants.