In most areas tomatoes are not planted directly into the soil as seeds. They
need to be started indoors in order to give them long enough time to mature
and fruit. Tomato seeds are relatively expensive for many varieties which
would make it hard to plant individual seeds spaced apart properly to grow,
unlike some small plants where you put lots of cheap seeds in the soil and
weed out the surplus.


"Oklahoma Tomcat" wrote in message
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We live in an area with a long growing season our last frost in late April
& first frost in November. We planted a portion of our garden right
before the heavy spring rains hit nad they drowned the garden seeds. The
soil is only recently been dry enough to work and plant again. I have
only tomato seeds and cannot at this time buy tomato plants to get a
jumpstart. Is it too late to plant the tomato seeds? If I do plant them,
what precautions should I take to help the plants grow well. We have to
grow organically due to health reasons so non-organic products (i.e.
fertilizers) cannot be used.

Thanks in advance,
Joe & Paula Jones

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