This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

RE: Tomatoes and More

Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

--------------------------- ListBot Sponsor --------------------------
Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
----------------------------------------------------------------------

So, all of this talk about direct seeding tomatoes has me thinking that I'll
give it a try this year. Do I need to presoak the seeds or anything special?
I'll take any tips you may offer.

Thanks,
Richard(zone 6b or 7)
Brooklyn,NY

-----Original Message-----
From: Anita Keller [a*@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:20 PM
To: Square Foot Gardening List
Subject: Re: Tomatoes and More


Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

--------------------------- ListBot Sponsor --------------------------
Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Just at thought....

Your e-mail made me think about my cherry tomato
plants.  My fiance swore that I shouldn't direct seed
tomatoes...that they will only die.  So, I told him we
would experiment with them.  I direct seeded 2 plants
and started 2 others in cups on the porch and later
transplanted.  All plants get the same sun, soil and
water every day.  

And guess what?  My direct seeded plants have bushels
of little green tomatoes all over them while my
transplanted ones are just getting their flowers.

Interesting....

Annie 

--- Janet Wintermute <jwintermute@erols.com> wrote:
> Square Foot Gardening List -
> http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor
> --------------------------
> Start Your Own FREE Email List at
> http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Margaret, thanks for this info:
> 
> >Gail, I don't know where you are, but if you wait
> until the soil warms 
> >enough to transplant, you can direct seed tomatoes
> in the garden, and they 
> >won't be more than a week behind 6-week-old
> transplants.  Dr. Kay 
> >Lancaster had a contest with one of her professors,
> when he told her he'd 
> >be picking ripe tomatoes within a week of her, from
> his direct 
> >seeding.  That was in Iowa, and he was picking ripe
> tomatoes that fast.
> 
> I've long wondered about whether anybody had really
> investigated this 
> subject.  It's particularly important to me because
> I did not get seeds 
> planted indoors earlier this spring.  It's
> store-bought or direct-seeded, 
> perforce, for me in 2001.
> 
> Thanks again.--Janet
> 
> 
>
______________________________________________________________________
> To unsubscribe, write to
sqft-unsubscribe@listbot.com


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
http://auctions.yahoo.com/


______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, write to sqft-unsubscribe@listbot.com


______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, write to sqft-unsubscribe@listbot.com
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index