The Eubanks family started growing tomatoes in 1963 at Possum Valley near Wilmar, Ark. Declining profit and rising stress recently led them to crop diversification and contemplating the future. Watch L&D Produce operate and hear its dilemma. | Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation

Lets talk tomatoes! Tomatoes are a garden all-star and there is nothing quite like the taste of a homegrown tomato. Here in Central Arkansas (zone 7b), I am generally starting my tomatoes around the beginning of February from seed. I will start cherry tomatoes that will produce all season and indeterminate heirloom tomatoes that will go through midsummer to be pulled out and replaced by a few rounds of determinate slicers and paste tomatoe. These will produce midsummer until the frost. This give