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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> A year round growing season, I just can't imagine it. How long has
> that tomato plant been growing?

This is a youngster, planted in late March. Bought it and the two  
basil plants at Home Depot down the road, came here and stuck them in  
the ground, soaked em good, got the automatic watering system set up  
and then left for Heartwood.

I have wintered both tomatoes and sweet potatoes here. The tomatoes  
don't do much ripening after it gets cool, like now, highs in  
seventies, lows in forties. I think of tomatoes as perennials.