I enjoyed growing my tomatoes so much in 1999 that I decided to get more involved on the Internet, and I figured, "What better way to get involved than to start my own forum?". So I did! I hope to bring a beginner's perspective to growing tomatoes, and strike a balance between giving advice to some people, and absorbing experience from others. When you click the 'Message Board' link at the top of the page, it will open a new window in your browser. Delphi will let you read messages as a Guest, but to post you need to create a username and password. Fortunately, this is pretty straightforward. I hope to see you on my message board!

To the right are the eight most recent discussions posted on the forum. Click one of them and you will be brought to that message in the forum (if this is your first time on Delphi, you can either sign on as 'Guest' or create your username and password as described above).

This page, when complete, will have lots of, you guessed it, tomato information. Right now you see a rather forlorn looking page with a bunch of links that do nothing. I should know better than to do this, as I am quick to criticize other sites that have unfinished pages. But, in my defense, I do not use the dreaded 'Under Construction' graphic anywhere. I think it best that I start out modestly, with mostly categorized links, and then add my own content. I just have to carve out some time to work on the page.

This link takes you to a graphic of my 2000 garden layout. It is an image map, which means when you click on different parts of the graphic, a different description will launch. For example, if you click on 'Early Bush Beans', some text will load, describing the variety, spacing, and other details of my early bush beans.

This page, as it stands now, shows my 2001 garden plan, with some information about how I created it in PaintShop Pro. As I add photos, I will provide links for the different vegetables I am growing this year, as I did for 2000.

This link brings you to a page listing my gardening journal. In it, I try to write anything I did that was garden-related. That includes seed starting activities, shopping, compost, planting, weeding, harvesting, and more. This will be updated periodically, so come back every now and then. Maybe it can help you feel better about your gardening experiences when you see me admit mistakes and failures throughout the season (although I hope to minimize them!).

This link brings you to a page with links to different photos from my garden. These will include periodic photos taken of my garden as a whole, to show its progression throughout the season. It will also show close-ups of my garden plants at various stages, and any insects, weeds, and diseases I note.

This link brings you to a page with books I recommend. Initially I just have two books (I just added this link on April 15th) up there, but eventually I'll have several more. You can buy the books from Amazon.com by clicking on the title of the book, or on the graphic image of the book.

This link will take you to a page with links, both tomato-related and general gardening-related. I hope to add to it periodically, and I welcome any links you suggest! I'm open to link-trading, if it helps generate traffic to my Tomato Message Board!