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Old September 20, 2017   #43
carolyn137
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(I am jumping in on this party a little late but have experience blowing up tomatoes with just a simple procedure. I know we all have different methods but we can all agree is starts with proper soil)

Just one initial question for now.

What do you mean when you refer to proper soil, and I ask since I would never start tomato seeds in real dirt.

Back on our farm many decades ago my father did and doing so can lead to many problems, but there were no other alternatives back then in the 40's and 50's.I'm talking here of starting seeds in a greenhouse.

For late tomatoes he would use a drill and sow seeds in real dirt in a field next to the top greenhouse. The we'd spend a lot of time pulling the plants, packing them in a 3 peck bushels and covering those with wet burlap, taking them out to the already prepared field, loading the trays in front of us on the plant setter, and away we'd go.

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