>>804539I Don't get frost, so timing is a bit different; heat is what kills my plants here.
I planted late because I let my winter veg hold on for too long and let my soil go empty for a month. Then I let my seedlings get one bad day off too much sun and boom, all of them were dead. I didn't try again for two weeks, half of those didn't sprout... lessons, all lessons learned.
This has been the crappiest june too-- so hot and wet all my plants have some fungus problem. I broke down and got copper spray it was so bad, but there's no fixing what's damaged now.
Also, to chime in on the roma bitch fest, I hate all the roma tomatoes I've ever grown. Even the "resistant" varieties seem to attract more bugs, bacterial infections, and fungus than the other tomatoes.
I ended up with some this year by replanting some volunteer grape tomato seeds. I was very disappointed, as these volunteer grapes are my favorite tomato plant yet.
> Pic related: Two plants on one trellis from about march. They exploded after this, and during the peak I picked 10+ bright red tomatoes every single day. 