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> > > Why are you growing them in a greenhouse when it's summer? They do
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> > > better outside in the fresh air and even better when planted in the
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> > This is in northern California, on the coast, near the Oregon border.
> > Outside daytime temperature yesterday was 64F at high noon outside,
> > 80F in the greenhouse, with all three vents open. =C2=A0If I was
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> > them in the ground I'd need to break through the permafrost with a
> > pickaxe first... well maybe, not quite, but you get the idea.
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> > That's a bummer. My tomatoes are a little behind this year because we
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> > gloomy dark drizzly spring here in Tennessee. Our days are now sunny,
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> > and very humid. The tomatoes are finally growing normally but little
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> My whole reason for constructing the greenhouse was to grow tomatoes.
> Fresh from the garden, still warm from the sun, you can eat them like
> an apple!
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> This is my first experiment with a greenhouse, all as previous
> gardening was done in southern California, where greenhouses have to
> be refrigerated for the plants to survive.
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> I was told that it is too cold here to grow tomatoes, so I took the
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Have you tried varieties developed to grow in San Francisco? Would
be a good experiment for next year to grow those outside and compare
them to the greenhouse performance.
Susan B.
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