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By: nacl01 in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (2)
Wed, 10 Apr 24 3:17 PM | 28 view(s)
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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.

Leggy tomatoes aren’t a problem. Tomatoes grow roots from any part of the stem that touches soil, so you can plant them deep, leaving a few leaves above ground, and they will grow normally. I have heard mixed messages about doing this with peppers (which are related) but you can’t do this with other plants.

Good luck.

nacl


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By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE
Wed, 10 Apr 24 11:58 AM 		Msg. 52146 of 58549

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.

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