On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 10:22:13 -0400, Jim Carter
wrote:

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:47:18 GMT, "Dave Allyn" (Dave Allyn)
wrote in rec.gardens.edible:

How long ago did you plant them outdoors? I planted out the last weekend of
May/first weekend of June. My Early Girls are about #3, probably due to the
rain and cold. Stupice was the first to set fruit and, surprisingly, Lemon Boy
was second. Lemon Boy has since passed Stupice in size. Lemon Boy's largest
tomato is about 3cm across, but Stupice is setting fruit like there is no
tomorrow! Ultra Sweet now has large fruits, as well. Dufresne has set fruit.
All Cherry and Grape tomatoes have set fruit.

Brandywine (both red and pink) and Cherokee Purple have flowers, but have not
yet set fruit (have not checked this morning, however), probably because they
were started slightly later than the others.

We have a red tomato on an Early Girl! Not quite ripe
enough to pick today, but it will be tomorrow. It's about
tennis-ball size.

The Early Girls' timing this year:

Seed Sown - March 24 - in a mini-electric greenhouse
indoors with a steady temp in the mid-70s

First Germination - March 28 - then kept under fluorescent
lights indoors

Planted Out - May 8 - in WalloWaters - our last frost date
is around May 31.

WalloWaters removed - sometime around June 15, so that the
cages could be put on

First Ripe Tomato - July 7

We had a VERY cool, terribly wet spring until around the
last week in June, when it became hot and sunny.

I'm going to try Stupice next year, and will probably grow
Early Girl again. I'll start them a bit earlier than March
24 next year: probably around March 10.

Pat