10 Reasons to Plant the Tomatoes

Although it’s two weeks earlier than I would like due to risk of cold weather.

  1. They are too big and top heavy to carry in and out without damage.
  2. Every time I try, something flops and threatens to break.
  3. The peat pots wick water unevenly, especially under the influence of sun and wind and I go to work thinking they are well watered and come home to a badly wilted plant or two.  Wondering why only one or two?
  4. They are probably not getting the food they need for this stage of their growth.  Resulting in yellowing of bottom leaves.  Fertilizer delivery mechanisms rely on the uptake of water; see # 3.
  5. When I leave them out at night and temps drop, the small amount of soil in their pots probably gets cold, too.  This morning it was 41 deg F.  The earth has been consistently over 50 deg F for a month or so.
  6. Forecasters are saying days in or near 70s and nights in or near 50s for the next 10 days.
  7. I have remay and know how to use it if they are wrong.
  8. The dahlia tubers that I was planning on working with this weekend won’t come to harm if it takes me another week to plant.
  9. The tomato plants woke me up at 5:00 am saying plant me, plant me.
  10. The formerly floppy SuperSweet 100 that I planted over a week ago looks like this!
happy if cold tomato

2 thoughts on “10 Reasons to Plant the Tomatoes”

  1. It’s posts like this that remind me how lucky I am to live in the south, and not have to worry about this kind of stuff in May. Then come late September (and sometimes October), when you guys are starting to have cool weather, I think about how lucky you are to live somewhere other than the south!

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