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When to move tomatoes into outdoor hoophouse

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Posted by robhan WA (My Page) on
Fri, Apr 18, 14 at 0:17

I have some tomato starts inside that have been going about a month now. When would be the best time to put them into an outdoor hoop house? Conventional wisdom says move tomatoes outdoors around Mother's Day in WA state, but how does that change for a hoop house?

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Conventional wisdom says move tomatoes outdoors around Mother's Day in WA state,

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Conventional wisdom? Not accurate, OFTEN.
Also Washington state has MANY climates.
I garden north of Seattle and have planted my tomatoes ( I also started them from seeds inside). Our LFD was around April first. And I started planting out around April 7. I have heard some people mentioning "mothers Day". But I have done it 5 weeks ahead of it.

Tomatoes are more cold tolerant than a lot of gardeners thing. Mine have seen few night lows of 38F. Tonight is 41, tomorrow night is going to be 39F. I am not worried. I have done and tested this many many times before, in CT, in GA and here in WA.

BTW: I started hardening off in my mini hoops too, before planting out. Basically, around here hardening off is for cold not so much for sun and heat.

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I don't know how much a hoop house compares with tunnel covers that I use, but I have hardened off plants on my concrete porch then planted them in the ground under tunnels from April 1 to 15. They do bear tomatoes earlier than tomatoes planted out later, they don't always get as big or grow as vigorously or last as long in the garden.

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