I'm guessing you are starting from seeds. Too early for anyone to have plants.What's the earliest anybody here planted tomatoes? I was thinking with some plastic covering the plants I could go a few weeks sooner.
Transplants. I've been waiting until May 1. Could I go earlier? Last frost is mid April as I recall for SM.I'm guessing you are starting from seeds. Too early for anyone to have plants.
When do you typically put the transplants out?Just my own experience, but I found that planting earlier doesn't mean earlier fruiting. Plus the added care and tending and frost worries. I get the bug for sprouting seeds in Jan, and have done Jan, Feb and Mar seeds plants. End result is they fruit about the same time.
Decided not to plant seeds this year. I did, however, just put a couple of potatoes in a big pot in the family room, just because they had sprouted in the kitchen.
A week or two before the last frost date. The spot I put them in is a bit protected.When do you typically put the transplants out?
You can get yourself some 1/2" flexible water line, clear polyethylene sheeting, and some zip ties to make yourself a small hoop house. Put straw around your transplants and put the hoop house over that.When do you typically put the transplants out?
Mid to late April but beware a frost might come and 1 year it did and killed 3 of my 4 plants now I wait mid MayWhat's the earliest anybody here planted tomatoes? I was thinking with some plastic covering the plants I could go a few weeks sooner.
If you want to try this, cover the ground with the plastic a couple weeks before you set the plants out. Try to warm that soil some. I love experimenting, so go for it, you might be happily surprised. But be open to and prepared to replace those plants if they don't make it. Don't cuss the weather if their little roots don't like it.What's the earliest anybody here planted tomatoes? I was thinking with some plastic covering the plants I could go a few weeks sooner.
I've been reading some studies on different color plastic mulch used for tomato production. Seems red plastic is most favorable. Interesting.If you want to try this, cover the ground with the plastic a couple weeks before you set the plants out. Try to warm that soil some. I love experimenting, so go for it, you might be happily surprised. But be open to and prepared to replace those plants if they don't make it. Don't cuss the weather if their little roots don't like it.
My garden is in the full open, nothing I do protects them from the cold wind blowing across that field. Even spinach doesn't like it out there early.
My grandmother would take a big pot of boiling water, pour it in a hole she prepared, then fill the hole and pour another on top. She said my babies like to keep their feet warm.Mid May.
Put them out in cold soil they just sit there and shiver until it warms. Tomato plants put out in April and May will produce at the same time unless you are protecting that April transplant some way.