If you're in North Texas, you now have my blessing to go ahead and plant tomato transplants. Yay! A bit early you say? It's probably going to freeze again right? Yes, it probably will. But with tomatoes, the earlier you can get them in the ground here the better. If you're willing to keep frost cloth or water wall protectors on hand, planting now will ensure you the best opportunity to get fruit set before temperatures get out of range. Peak planting time will be right about mid-March, then it needs to taper off through the end of March. Then I'll cut you off April 1st, lol.
If we drop below about 35F, cover your tomatoes with frost cloth. That does the trick. If you want to read a bit more about tomatoes I have a number of posts about them on the blog- just "tomatoes" in the search box to the right and you'll get a list of posts. Enjoy!
Thank you for the reminder!
Posted by: Elise Anthony | March 01, 2012 at 01:47 PM via Facebook
We sure do Karen! We have plenty. Check the list at www.nhg.com
Posted by: Leslie Finical Halleck | February 25, 2012 at 05:13 PM
My seedlings are still a bit too small to risk transplanting into the cold. Do you have transplants at NHG ready to go yet?
Posted by: Karen | February 25, 2012 at 03:05 PM
BTW- I'll be doing a repeat of my lunchtime Tomato class next Friday, March 2nd noon-1pm at North Haven Gardens
Posted by: Halleck Horticultural | February 23, 2012 at 03:50 PM via Facebook
Absolutely! Especially when it got hot so fast last year, at least I got a decent early crop!
Posted by: Susan Fischer Mathews | February 23, 2012 at 03:32 PM via Facebook
Excellent! It's definitely worth the effort to have to cover them up once or twice.
Posted by: Halleck Horticultural | February 23, 2012 at 03:23 PM via Facebook
Putting some in this weekend! Had to protect a few times last year, but it worked out great!
Posted by: Susan Fischer Mathews | February 23, 2012 at 03:07 PM via Facebook