Re: seedling question
What exactly *is* a wall of water?
** Reply to message from Bill Belton <bbelton@comcast.net> on Mon, 13 May 2002
20:16:15 -0400
> 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.
>
Lesley
8 million ferrets can't be wrong.
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