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Re: not watering tomatoes @ transplant time

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 06:17:05 -0500, you wrote:

>> To leave tomato plants a couple of days without water when
>> transplanting into soil, is a method used by commercial growers for
>> growing tomatoes in greenhouses. I have a friend who uses this
>> method already for a long time with very good results. This year I
>> will give it a try also.
>
>I think someone already mentioned it, but it's rather important to
>point out that not watering the transplants would only be successful
>in certain climates.  Here in our sizzling Texas sun, my transplants
>would burn up within 24 hours if I didn't water and monitor them
>each day at the beginning to get them over the transplanting shock.
>I know...it happened to me!
>
>Last year I had just transplanted 28 wonderful little tomato
>seedlings into my raised beds and was suddenly called out of town on
>business for a week.  After extracting a promise from my husband to
>faithfully water them and watch out for the little babies, I flew off
>into the wild blue yonder.  Upon my return one week later I
>discovered that they had all burned up within the first day because
>he had completely forgotten about my garden and the transplants!
>There were countless times that summer when we sat down to the table
>and I thought of those homegrown, fresh tomatoes that we could be
>having.... }:(
>
>Joan
>cmathew@airmail.net
>http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8098/
>USDA gardening zone 7b (just north of Dallas, TX)

-- 
Andre Vanheddeghem
Belgium
andrev@unicall.be
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