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Re: What do you like for tomatoes?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: jim allAn <jallan6977@clarityconnect.com>
...snip  where Ron Rambled on about his trellises...
> > Ron Souliere (lincoln nebraska) the onions I missed last
> > year are a few inches tall.  5 weeks to last frost.
> > 
>    You must be in zone 5 also. Just what state I can't guess?  The
> nearest town I have west of us that is listed in the zone map with it's
> frost dates is Elmira.  That is about 60/80 miles west of me.  There
> last frost date is 4/26.  I have my tomatoes already sprouted and to
> tall but finished my scrap wood greenhouse today so they will be outside
> tomorrow if it is warm enough.  If I replant them before they have first
> real leaves will that be OK to plant them deeper.  Some of the first to
> poke up are looking a little leggy already and I can't get them anymore
> light which they are reaching for.  I do rotate them daily to keep them
> as straight as possible.  They will be in deep shade a little past noon
> so I may never have to open the greenhouse for ventilation.  Now if the
...snip... 
>    Jim allAn            One family photo has been added.  3/8/01
>    Zone 5              
>    New York U.S.A.     

Hello Jim
I am from Lincoln Nebraska.  Normally tomatoes can be planted 
deeper (good idea in fact to buy them almost to the first leaves.
But before the true leaves have shown up, I have no idea, I have
(been lucky) never had that problem.
Couple of things to keep plants from getting leggy.  Lots of sunlight
or artificial lights real close.  And/or play with them.  Brush them gently
with your hands, it stimulates them to grow thicker stalks to put up
with the abuse.  My favorite trick is to put an oscillating fan blowing
gently over my seedlings for some time each day.  Basically simulating
conditions outside.  It does not blow so hard as to knock them over but 
it does disturb them.  My seedlings tend to be short and have thick 
stalks.

Ron Souliere


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