Gardening Advice, Vegetables, Winter Preparation
Tomatoes All Year Long!

Imagine - your favorite fruit ripe and ready to eat all year long. So says Mother Earth News - offering the five smart strategies and four special varieties to ensure whatever the season - it’s Tomato Time!
Even winter? Yep - here’s what they recommend for winter: grow cherry tomatoes indoors:
Near Decorah, Iowa, David Cavagnaro harvests cherry tomatoes from plants he grows indoors through winter in 10-gallon containers (see “Winter Tomatoes,” October/November 2004). He starts with cuttings rooted from his summer stock, and grows them in a sun-drenched window. If you don’t have a big south-facing window (or sliding glass door), provide supplemental light from an overhead fluorescent fixture — a great job for a grow-light that would otherwise be gathering dust until it’s needed for spring seedlings.
Do you have a favorite variety of tomato? Any advice to share on growing tomatoes?
photo from Idaltu
25 Feb 2008 GBP









