Tomato Planting

[misswired]

Stopped in the nursery on the way home from fishing. Thought I’ll just pay the girl outside $10 and get 9 better boy tomato plants.

Yep I’m a month late buying plants and they have no better boys left.... SOooooo, I pick out 12 plants handing her the ten spot saying I’m not going in to pay, keep the change. Oh no, she says I have to get 10 cups of three plants each to equal $10z....

What am I gonna do with thirty plants?
What am I gonna do with thirty plants worth of tomatoes?

I remember truck farming when I was a kid......Mom had two thousand tomato plants!

 

[schutzen-jager]

not out yet here in jersey , but great price there - last year three plants that size sold for $3.50 here -

 

[Rudi]

Sadly, we here up North have 5 or 6 weeks before we can plant them. Really chomping at the bit.

 

[steelslaver]

Nothing planted outside around her till latte May and then you still might get bit by a frost. I have a 10x12 green house that the wife has some stuff started in.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Here in southern Colorado we usually wait until May to plant outdoors. 77F today, but 35F a few days ago, and another storm front moving in now. Like my old dad always said, in the Rocky Mountains winter is anytime from Labor Day until the 4th of July.

Dad also said that we should enjoy the weather every day because it was the only weather we were going to get.

 

[redlevel]

My first planting of sweet corn is nearly a foot tall. I planted more corn today, plus peas and okra. I set seven tomato plants in containers about 10 days ago. Five Rutgers and two Centenniel. I have watermelons and cantaloupes started in peat pots, ready to transplant in about a week.

Here are my tomatoes. The containers are the tubs that 200 pounds of block protein for cows came in. Painted white so they don’t absorb so much heat in the summer.