do not, ever again, get a few extra tomato plants to suprize/delight your husband because he is planning the same thing...and this year I really mean it! I am up to my freezer bags in tomatoes.
do not plant too close together or the garden will look like the rain forest. Ditto if my husband is planting his usual 12 rows of beans without allowing for passage between the rows...and this year I really mean it! I have learned my lesson!
Oh and: don't plant "Mr. Stripy" which did nothing at all last year and gave 6 glorious and nothing else this year-and this year I really mean it!
Glad to see I'm not the only one willing to admit to learning from doing it wrong the first time!!! Send those maters down here Margota - between me having no bed space left for veggies and Caro's locust plague, and David's deep-shade garden , we have to suffer shop bought maters
Mr.Stripy looks great and not 1 flower. I live near Dallas what is the deal
So many possibilities, Anon.
First it is a late bloomer in general compared to say, Early Girl.
In the cultivating dept, it could be your soil. Too much nitrogen tends to make great leaves and little or no bloom. A soil test would be in order to verify it. But if you’ve been adding a good deal of garden compost or composted manure, that would pretty much guarantee a too-much-nitrogen situ. If so, the solutions might too late for this seasons crop but are still worth a try. Adding phosphate instigates bloom production. A natural source is colloidal rock phosphate. Also, there are organic granular foods formulated esp for tomatoes – Rabbit Hill brand makes one.
Folks who garden more by the seat of their pants than by lab reports swear by ‘stressing’ a plant into bloom by limiting its water for a while.
Let us know how it goes for you..
re annonymous 6/6.thanks but don't you think it is weird that the other 10 varieties are going great despite the drought and 90+ heat this year. it would be the year I turned my entire backyard into a fruit, berry, veggie and herb garden...next year as the old timers say!!
If you'd told me 10 other varieties were doing well, it would have saved me a lot of writing. 
Obviously, Mr. Stripey doesn't like your place. Other gardeners have reported it is a poor performer for them too. Whatever its preferences are, they haven't figured it out yet. Don't take it personal. Just don't invite him back next year.
And don't give up on the others in their first year 'cause of extra hot weather. If you are in my neck of the woods (don't know bout that either), you know how it goes around here. We might have monsoons all next month. ack
Your entire yard of produce sounds devine. We'd love to see pics. Course, it would make me ache for acreage all the more!