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To: Uncle Ike

Our nearest garden store is the Ace Hardware and they have a lot of plants with small white labels abbreviated with a felt marker so I was familiar with your dilemma. We can’t grow tomatoes outdoors here on the shore of Humboldt Bay without a blight due to the drizzle, like today, yesterday, last week, all of May and the rest of June...


324 posted on 06/10/2010 12:23:01 PM PDT by tubebender (Life is short so drink the good wine first...)
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To: tubebender

Actually, I’m not sure what my tomatoes are going to come out like - we’ve had some pretty strange weather conditions here, this year... (Southern New Mexico)

(Disclaimer - I’m a ‘beginner’ gardener, learning-by-doing, so I’ve already made some pretty - in hindsight - obvious mistakes... )

We had a very long cold season this year, which didn’t break until well into May - overnite temps in the low 30’s as late as the second week in May, but, thankfully, no frost, or there would have been no tomatoes at all to worry about, since I had to put my seedlings in the ground the last 2 weeks in April or lose ‘em in their tray on my windowsill...

So, for the next 2-3 weeks, they just sat there - wouldn’t grow and wouldn’t die - and then just this last week, when they finally started to get brave and start growing, we’ve had a string of 100-degree-plus days, so I think those poor plants don’t know what to think, anymore....

So, it’ll be interesting to see if they actually recover and fruit, or whether the odd conditions have made them too neurotic... ;)


325 posted on 06/10/2010 12:41:16 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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