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To: Marcella
I bought tomato plants already to plant earlier and those are through

What do you mean by through? Keep them watered and they'll start producing again once the temps get back down in the fall.

89 posted on 07/19/2013 3:44:58 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: bgill
Keep them watered and they'll start producing again once the temps get back down in the fall.

Indeterminates will do that. Determinates like Roma won't (or don't for me) which is why I have new Roma seedlings getting ready for the fall planting.

/johnny

93 posted on 07/19/2013 3:51:37 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bgill

The sun has cooked the plants - my fault because I didn’t move them out of the blasting sun and put them in shade part of the day. We have already had 105 days a few weeks ago. I found out from Johnny, I screwed up, that full sun in Texas does not mean full sun like in places farther north. These new tomato plants are in a large container and it has wheels so I can move in into shade for the hottest part of the day.

Part of my learning problem has been, I remember my father planting everything and it just grew and produced. That was farther north east Texas. Corn grew, beans, green peas, onions, tomatoes from seed, black eyed peas, beets, turnips, potatoes, figs trees, peaches, plums, hogs, - he put the stuff there and it grew in the ground or in the pig pen. It’s only now I found out there must have been more to it than sticking seeds in the ground.

He didn’t move anything out of the sun to shade but maybe that east Texas being farther north, the Longview area, was not as bad as it is here.


97 posted on 07/19/2013 4:07:50 PM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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