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> > On Jul 6, 11:21=C2=A0pm, "Marie Dodge" <inva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
> > > > ground.
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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
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> > > gloomy dark drizzly spring here in Tennessee. Our days are now
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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? =C2=A0
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> be a good experiment for next year to grow those outside and compare
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There is a variety called San Francisco Fog that I would like to try
outside, but I'll have to wait for next year. I bought a Carmello in
a 3" pot, plugged it into a raised bed, and it is doing well. We'll
have fruit setting this week if we are lucky.
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