May 9, 2008

Revisiting Roma Tomatoes

I thought it's a good time to revisit my mini greenhouse tomatoes I seeded way back in March. I will be giving some away to Dad and Mayette & Oliverio this weekend so this will be the last documentation about this year's experimentation with indoor sowing.

Last April 4th posting , I had this 24 day sprout, a Roma tomato, measuring almost 5" - the tallest among them all.



I started to harden the 35-day seedlings off when the weather turned almost to summer temperatures around April 15th. Knowing that the weather will not sustain those balmy days, the only reasonable and practical thing to do was to move them indoors in the evenings when frosty mornings were predicted and then set them out in the outdoor "greenhouse" during the days when it was at least 7 deg C.

Three re potting later, these Roma tomatoes at 52days are feeling the constrained space. Hopefully, they will be transplanted in their permanent beds by next weekend which is deemed frost-free in this region.

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