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Direct Seeding Tomatoes in Z5

skeip
10 years ago

For years I have started my seeds under lights in the basement to plant out around Memorial Day. Yesterday I am weeding the tomatoes and I probably pulled out a hundred rogue tomato plants that must have come from the clinkers I missed when cleaning up last fall. Some were almost as large and robust as my carefully nurtured seedling babies.

I am in Z5, the past few years we have had relatively good snow cover, in the fall I put on as many chopped leaves as I can get, sometimes almost a foot. My question is, if these tropical seeds can survive our winters, couldn't I direct seed in mid-May and get the same results as starting them under lights a month earlier? Even if the soil was cool, they would germinate when the time was right, and I wouldn't be that far behind. Maybe these seeds aren't as tender as we think!

Is direct seeding for Tomatoes a viable option, or are there problems that I'm not seeing? TYIA.

Steve

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