RE: seedling question
Hi,
>JoOhio1@aol.com wrote:
> I'm going to experiment with the those plastic "walls of
> water" this season and will put a couple of tomato and
> pepper plants outside in them...within the next two
> weeks?...to see how they work.
>
This is my first year of gardening and I used wall of waters (WOW) out
of desperation. I had planted my tomato seedlings much too early and
by the middle of April they were growing into my fluorescent lights.
I bought the WOWs and transplanted my 4 tomato plants without any
hardening at all on April 19. I also covered the WOWs with clear
plastic sheeting at night when the temperatures got down into the low
30's and on days when the highs were in the 40's and low 50's. I live
north of Baltimore and the recommended date for transplanting tomatoes
is May 15th. All my plants are now around 3 feet tall and doing quite
well. The Early Girl has already set two tomatoes and the other three
(Better Boy, Gardener's Delight, Super Sweet 100) are all blooming and
looking very nice. It was probably beginner's luck, but I'm sold on
the WOW and will continue to use them. In fact, I also used the WOW
when I transplanted a couple of Brandywine tomato plants last weekend.
They seemed to really help by protecting the plants from the wind and
maintaining a more even temperature. I only left those on for 3 days
until I was sure the plants were well established but I think I could
have left them on longer and gotten the plants going a little better.
Bill
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