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Old June 2, 2016   #177
Cole_Robbie
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Today's garden pic: http://i.imgur.com/A2TFY3C.jpg

I just picked and ate a handful of Anmore Treasures and Anmore Dew Drops from my outdoor plants. Ripe tomatoes by the 4th of July is considered doing well in my climate. And it's been cold and wet. It's still getting into the low 50's at night. I wanted to use low tunnels but never got them built. It would take a very dense planting, but a low tunnel crop of these two could be a very early crop for market, especially if I had some sort of emergency heat for freezing nights. They would need no support at all, which is going to be a requirement if I can ever grow tomatoes by the acre.

My three Cole plants don't look great, but they got stunted and sick from being started too early. I will get enough off of them for a seed crop, which is what I wanted. That's another low tunnel candidate variety.

The tilled garden plants are starting to grow. They're about knee-high. I see a few blooms. If it would stop raining so much, they would take off.
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