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How Tender They Are!

My tomatoes are just about at all stages of growth. I will need to get the last in 4 packs into larger containers like their big sisters, soon. There are some in those deeper 6-packs (what are they, 36/flat? so), twice the size of regular 6-packs. They can stay until setting out.


It was 41ºf outdoors, yesterday morning at 7am. A little cool and risk-averse Steve was kinda drumming his digitS' about not turning on the space heaters in the hoop houses. That plastic film amounts to very little protection in those things. Still, the tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc. had all been out of the 60º comfort of the greenhouse for several nights, at least. Besides lending more room, the idea is to get those plants comfortable with lower temperatures.

Since they sit across the path of two covered garden beds, it isn't possible to water several of the flats that needed it. I'm SURE I didn't pull those plants out at 7am to run over them with the watering wand and leave them to drip in the sun for not-more-than 30 minutes:


Then this morning, it was 37º officially outdoors but frost on roofs. One heater wouldn't turn on! I've had the George Foreman grill in that hoop house with a fan for 2 hours ...

Steve

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