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To: greeneyes

Yes, when did you start the tomatoes?? I only have some seedlings right now.


4 posted on 03/14/2014 1:05:05 PM PDT by MiddleEarth (With hope or without hope we'll follow the trail of our enemies. Woe to them, if we prove the faster)
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To: MiddleEarth

I started it late fall early winter - don’t remember the exact date. I haven’t yet started tomato seeds for transplanting. That typically happens around St Patty’s day.

This was an experiment to see if I could get a really big jump on the season this way. You know how it is with salads?

In the spring, there’s plenty of lettuce for salads, but the tomatoes are not ripe yet. Supermarket tomatoes - can’t stand the lack of flavor. I am hoping this will give me fresh tomatoes to go with my early lettuce and spinach this year.

In the past I have chopped off tomato limbs with green tomatoes and flowers in the fall, stuck them in dirt, and had a few ripe tomatoes all winter long.

This year my tomatoes weren’t great, and I didn’t get to have tomatoes all winter. So I just decided to plant a seed and see how it works for early spring tomatoes.


8 posted on 03/14/2014 1:18:36 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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