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52310 Re: Gardening
   
micro   6TH POPE   10 Apr 2024
4:57 PM
52149 Re: Gardening
   [b] I wouldn't again plant tomato seeds before April 1st: I had been g...
nacl01   6TH POPE   10 Apr 2024
3:17 PM

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Gardening

By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE
Wed, 10 Apr 24 11:58 AM
Msg. 52146 of 60008
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A few years ago I posted on GARD that I wouldn't again plant tomato seeds before April 1st: I had been giving them too much time in pots before they could go in the ground, and the plants got leggy. Leggy is bad.

But now it's April 10th and I still haven't started the tomatoes. In fact, I haven't done ANYTHING garden-related except for planting hot peppers. They need more time than other plants do. They've now germinated in their little pots and should be ready for transplanting to the garden at about the same time as all the other, faster-growing seeds.

I've got to get busy. There's a lot to do. My garden has to be planted by mid-May. The short growing season in New Hampshire makes the timing of a garden very difficult: Plant too early and a freak snowstorm will kill everything. Plant too late and the season will end before anything can be harvested. Finding the sweet spot is the trick.