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Re: tomatoes in South Carolina

In a message dated 98-02-13 15:02:48 EST, keith@DCNA.COM writes:

<< I'm located in South Carolina (Zone 7b)
 I started tomatoes from seed Feb 4th
 I have Burpee's Fourth of July (44 days) as well as a few other types
 I'm expecting the last frost date to be March 15th
 
 With the above taken into consideration I should have tomatoes by May
 1st?  Am I way off the mark here? >>
Keith, I believe your frost date is correct although I'm not so sure about
your Zone. I'm just across the river from you and my extension agent has
always told me that I'm in Zone 8. As for you tomatoes by May 1st...maybe, but
you must remember that our April nights can still be cool. This may retard the
growth and ripening of your Fourth of July a few weeks. As for tomatoes all
summer I've found that once we hit late July and August the tomatoes take a
break from producing fruit until it cools down a bit in September. I keep my
plants well watered and trim off any diseased lower branches. Sometimes my
plants wind up looking like tomato trees but once it cools down a bit, they
put on another spurt of growth and start producing well again. In addition to
16 varieties of heirloom tomatoes I'm also trying Heatwave II Hybrid this year
to see if I can get tomatoes during August. Hope this might help :-)

Fred
Hephzibah, GA
Zone 8
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