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Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall

From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
Cc: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:22:21 -0700 (PDT)

You can't even buy nursery stock in the summer, Gene, All it takes is 2-3
back-to-back 115 + degree days to kill every plant. I've had a few plants to
survive the summer, some years. Uusually they don't. And, to answer your
question, I have been doing this for too many years. Using shade cloth and
anything else I can think of to defeat the sun.

Usually I just wait for the nursery stock to show up at the end of the
summer, but it has been showing up so late the past few years , I wanted to
get an early start this fall by planting seeds inside now....bobford

--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the
> fall
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 8:14 PM
> On Jul 21, 2008, at 9:08 PM, bob ford wrote:
>
> > 'half a block from Encanto Park....I'm
> planting for fall...bobford
>
> Have you done this before? I am curious especially about
> tomatoes. In
> Phoenix I have taken tomatoes through the winter that were
> planted in
> the previous spring. They just keep growing.

Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall, bob ford, 07/21/2008
- [Homestead] getting plant stock in phx at the right time., VAN DELL JORDAN, 07/21/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] getting plant stock in phx at the right time., Robert Walton, 07/21/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] getting plant stock in phx at the right time., bob ford, 07/21/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall, Robert Walton, 07/21/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall, Roy Morgan, 07/21/2008
    - Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall, Gene GeRue, 07/22/2008
      - Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall, paxamicus, 07/22/2008
      - Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall, Roy Morgan, 07/22/2008
  - Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall, bob ford, 07/21/2008
    - Re: [Homestead] Growing tomatoes and vegetables from seed for the fall, Gene GeRue, 07/22/2008