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Re: 'hot tomatoes'


On Sun, 29 Mar 1998 05:18:48 +0000 (GMT) Allan Day
<allan@crwys.demon.co.uk> writes:
>A word of warning
>Don't be fooled by the survival of tomato plants at low temperatures.
>Scientific trials have shown that in commercial tomato production
>if the plants ever suffer temperatures below 10C/50F for a
>significant time their cropping power will be significantly impaired.
>-- 
>Allan Day Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk 
>
>
Thank you for the advice Allan.
     I was almost thinking of not using the Christmas tree lights if they
would not be needed to keep the frost from killing the seedlings.  
     Now I know better, thanks to you.   I am pretty sure I can keep the
overnight temperature above 50 degrees F. by using the lights.
     I plan on putting the seeds in the ground any day now.  That will be
6 weeks before I can normally transplant to the garden.  
     This whole pyramid scheme will probably take years to perfect, if it
works at all.
     Information like you and Steve and Ian and Sheila and others have
supplied will help immensely in figuring what goes wrong, and how to fix
it.
     Thanks for your advice.

Stan         The cheap and lazy gardener

P.S.     I believe it was Ian who gave me a lot of temperature
information about what tomato plants like and don't like, but the best
thing he said was, in effect, "Go for it anyway, you'll never get
everything perfect no matter what you do."

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