Gambling on Tomatoes
Yep...we gambled, and gambled big. We planted the tomatoes at our "satellite" property (featured here on this blog) and we took a gamble by planting before May 1st. This is a calculated gamble because, historically, the last freeze of the year could be as late at May 1st.
Well, historically, the worst freeze in April in the last 30 years was April 20th. We lost 75-80% of what we planted on April 13th. I didn't take a picture because I honestly didn't want to see it more than once!
Farmer Jeff has reminded me that this is why he starts with 1,000 seedlings. Sigh...
Tomorrow he will be replanting about 150 tomatoes. I will be at a marketing class in San Francisco, in a nice warm, dry room. It is supposed to rain again tomorrow here...
At least the tomatoes will like it!
Well, historically, the worst freeze in April in the last 30 years was April 20th. We lost 75-80% of what we planted on April 13th. I didn't take a picture because I honestly didn't want to see it more than once!
Farmer Jeff has reminded me that this is why he starts with 1,000 seedlings. Sigh...
Tomorrow he will be replanting about 150 tomatoes. I will be at a marketing class in San Francisco, in a nice warm, dry room. It is supposed to rain again tomorrow here...
At least the tomatoes will like it!
Labels: freeze, frost, gambling, Heirloom Tomatoes
posted by Chicken Mama at 10:21 PM
6 Comments:
Oh dear...so you're getting some of this ridiculous weather, too. sigh. Enough is enough. We had an inch of snow last week and lows of 27*. yuck. sorry about your tomato babies. Are you still coming in two weeks?
:-( So sorry!
How's Miss Sarah doing?
Ooh - too bad about the tomatoes - and what a lot of work. Well, that's farming, huh?
How is your chicken - glad to know that the vet was able to help her! T.
Whoop! Sorry about your maters!
We've had wacky weather here, too.
We get some nice warm days and then before we can get used to it...BAM! The temps drop, the snow falls, and the wind blows. sigh
Hope the next batch of tomatoes does better
wow, I haven't saw so much tomatoes on one place ever :-)
This year I will have more tomatoes on balcony and I had to care about the weather too... My future mother in low sent some tomatoes and they are much bigger than my are. Maybe I planted them too late... But I do not depend on them like you, so I know how important it is for you.
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