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Brandywines

Hi.  When I lived in central Texas, I tried to take advantage of the warmer
winters to plant tomatoes out early.  Here's what I encountered:

1.  Good germination in late January (it was in the 70's and 80's that year).
2.  Need to protect seedlings from wind dessication.
3.  Even though it was warm in late winter, it was often cloudy; seedlings
were
    leggy.
4.  Flowering started in early March.
5.  It quickly became too hot to set fruit.  I had only a few.

I think the problem with 'Northern' varieties in the South is the rapid
change from cool to hot, because it truncates the flower-and-set-fruit
stage.  If you are interested in hydroponic gardening, you can grow
tomatoes successfully that way just about everywhere, and Brandywine is so
delicious grown hydroponically (or any way), I can't even describe it.
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