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Re: tomatoes in South Carolina


On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:48:00 -0500 Keith Emery <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?

There is one other factor which may upset your schedule. Tomatoes do not
set fruit until the minimum temperature (night time) remains above 55
deg. F. This is my limiting factor for early Tomatoes. I verified this
last year by placing three plants in containers on the same date that I
transplanted to the outdoor soil. I moved the container plants indoors
every night that the minimum temp. was forecast to be below 55 deg. The
container plants had ripe Tomatoes nearly a month earlier than the ones
in the soil.

oldjohn@juno.com
John Orwick
El Monte, CA [20 miles east of Los Angeles]

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