I don't know what seeds your referring to that don't need much light but I will let you know that most vegetables need a good amount of light or they stretch and get lanky. A tomato needs right around 2000 Lumens per Sq Ft minimum. If I remember right a regular shop type light isn't going to put...
It doesn't matter if the wood chips are in the soil or on the soil they still rob nitrogen from the soil the only difference is weather it takes nitrogen with in the soil or from the top few inches of the soil.
Wood chips much like saw dust also has a acidifying affect so pH also has to be...
The Rutger / Rutgers select tomato over time has lost some size, taste, etc. so what Rutgers did was reintroduce some old tomatoes.
The Ramapo, Moreton, and the Rutgers 250 are all "recreated" tomatoes, they are said to have the same mother plants as the originals and also will have the same...
LOL, I average about 10 varieties some years more if I feel the need to try a new tomato but I put out around 100 to 150 tomato plants some years more.
Have you tried Campbells 1327 or Ramapo?
If you like Pineapple try Ruby Gold/ Gold Metal.
This tomato is said to be the "mother" of all the Red and Yellow striped tomatoes.
The Pineapple, Striped German, Big Rainbow, etc. are said to be bred from this original plant.
Most of my seeds come Stokes Seeds. My families been from them for years.
I also deal with Burpee but don't buy near as much from Burpees as I do Stokes.
I have a few favorite tomatoes.
(listed in no particular order)
Roma VF
Brandywine (Red)
Rutgers
Campbell's 1327
Beefsteak
I plant everything myself from seed. I get better plants that way.