Tomato Girl/ Tomato Baby Company Review and Giveaway!

Tomato Baby Company is devoted to growing the tomato and pepper seedlings that their customers want.
This company was formed as a sort of a co-op to provide the many types of plants gardeners want to try at a fair, decent price.
Substantial, quality plants are their goal and they will continue to grow them for you, as long as they get the quantity of orders they need to operate.

So, please pass their name on to your gardening friends and neighbors, hobbyists and commercial growers alike!

Remember to shop for tomato, pepper and basil plants and seedlings here because they ship throughout the continental United States!

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. 

 I have not yet received my plants, but I wanted to do a preliminary review anyway! The wonderful plants at Tomato Girl/Tomato Baby Company sell out rather quickly, and I want my giveaway winner to be able to choose something awesome before they are all gone! I will be posting another (more detailed) review when the tomato plants get to me (and into my garden)!

When I contacted Tomato Baby, I got a response quicker than I expected. I had the pleasure of speaking with Alainia (the owner) several times. She was very kind and so very helpful. By browsing her site, you can really tell how committed she is to her tomato babies. She made a few suggestions on how, what, and when to order. You can really tell that she is genuinely helpful and involved, not just trying to make a sale like a lot of other companies I have ordered from in the past.

The Tomato Baby website has SO many different varieties of tomatoes as well as several other veggies to choose from that it can be a bit overwhelming (especially for the beginner gardener.) Luckily, the site has an option to have the grower pick the plants for you. All you have to do is leave a detailed description of what it is you are looking for. For instance, when I ordered I  put in the description box:

1 unique cherry tomato variety that will be great in salads.
1 variety that is perfect for cooking (stuffing)
1 variety that produces striped fruits.
1 variety that loves hot climates and is disease resistant.
1 variety that produces HUGE fruit.
1 variety that that has an early season.
1 variety that just sounds cool, and will make me proud when showing it to others!
(can be a mixture of each quality! Such as a large, striped tomato that is great for cooking, etc.) I typically only enjoy cherry tomatoes, so I am trying to focus more on those.

I tried to follow Alainia's suggestions:


How should a new customer pick plants? Pick at least one for:

taste alone

its color (black, white, yellow, orange, green, even striped jobs)

production - so there WILL be guaranteed tomatoes

disease resistance

its size (Big ones, little ones, Huge ones)

an early season (60 days is about the earliest)

a mid-season variety (approximately 80 days)

late season (90-100 days) - probably worth the wait!

something that just sounds cool....there is a lot of character in these plant names and their histories

cherry tomatoes for the babies and grandbabies

I am super excited and cannot wait to see what she sends me!! 

 

ONE lucky winner will get to pick 5 plants of their choosing from the Tomato Baby company. Giveaway is open to the continental US only, and will end on April 21! To enter,  just leave a comment below telling me what plants you would choose. For extra entries leave separate comments for:

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Thank you all, and good luck!