Re: December tomatoes

"Wooly" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> It looks like I may have some December tomatoes, from plants I managed
> to keep alive all summer in pots.  The grape tomato started blossoming a
> couple of days ago and I still have a couple of bees around so hopefully
> the blossoms were pollinated.
>
> I know temps are supposed to drop in the next few days so tomorrow I'll
> put together a poor woman's hot-house: two layers of heavy plastic
> painters' tarp over a 2x4 frame large enough to house the tomato plants,
> the fig and the grapefruit.  I'll squeeze in the cacti, too...

best of luck. I had some tomatos in my poly tunnel grow until the end of
July here (your end of January). Not the greatest plants but freshly
picked
tomatos from your back garden in the middle of winter was quite good eh.

rob