"they" say that the soil temp needs to be around 50 for the tomatoes....so maybe I'll plant them and put some black pastic around them....too leggy tomato plants do not do well.
I never even checked my soil temp. It’s been so sunny and warm here for the last week, that I figured they’d be OK.
They are looking great as of now.
Today I’m planting a Serviceberry tree and the rest of my cabbage and radicchio, and putting up turkey wire tunnels over them to keep out the critters.
Leggy tomatoes. Don’t try to dig a hole that will accept the entire height.
Dig a hole, fertilize; dig a small trench on one side; Lay your Leggy Tom roots in the hole (flatten them out...remove any peat pot or jiffy pot netting) and lay the stem in the trench with most of the top and branches above the soil line. Bury. Mulch around it to protect from mud splashing up on the leaves!
It should develop additional roots and do just fine. (There I Think I Learned that here...was that you Diana?)