Tomato Babies

[whatevah]

My tomatoes are finally starting to come up. Two green zebras popped the surface of the soil in their cups today. I expect both will have popped their leaves all the way out by the end of the day. I'm sure it helps that the weather has been incredibly warm (highs in the low to mid 70s, and lows in the high 30s to low 40s) here the last few days

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[wunderworks]

This may sound crazy, but it and Miracle-GRO gave my grandparents the best gorram tomatoes I've ever seen. They would put a small tire around each tomato plant. The dark rubber would heat up and keep the plant warm and hold moisture in the rim so that the very local humidity around the plant was higher. Of course, you didn't want standing water in the tires as that would lead to mosquitoes, so you'd pour them out whenever they'd get water in them.

They would pull the tires off during the hot summer, but when it was cold they'd put the tires down and had awesome 'hot tire' tomatoes. ^_^

[amhranai]

I grew green zebra's this year... I can't wait for the warmer weather to come back!