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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
From many floors up (covered balcony facing west, max about 8 hours sun in
summer), on the west coast of Canadar, we are figuring folks in yer climb at this ng will have some advice 4us... __________________________________________________ Planning to start some plants from seeds early next year. Have had success in the past, but find they get a bit leggy indoors during early months. Wondering if anyone has experience at starting them later, say right outdoors, in containers, from seed. Cheers -bg- www.tlchb.ca |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
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from "**bg**" contains these words: From many floors up (covered balcony facing west, max about 8 hours sun in summer), on the west coast of Canadar, we are figuring folks in yer climb at this ng will have some advice 4us... __________________________________________________ Planning to start some plants from seeds early next year. Have had success in the past, but find they get a bit leggy indoors during early months. Wondering if anyone has experience at starting them later, say right outdoors, in containers, from seed. Yes - here, they don't do too well. Certainly this summer, I put out tomatoes only a little late, and most of the plants were dying off before I'd had three tomatoes from seven plants. Where you are, you might be better off though. -- Rusty horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
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From: "Alan Holmes" To: Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 6:40 AM Subject: Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "**bg**" Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:12 PM Subject: Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed From many floors up (covered balcony facing west, max about 8 hours sun in summer), on the west coast of Canadar, we are figuring folks in yer climb at this ng will have some advice 4us... __________________________________________________ Planning to start some plants from seeds early next year. Have had success in the past, but find they get a bit leggy indoors during early months. Wondering if anyone has experience at starting them later, say right outdoors, in containers, from seed. Try a newsgroup aimed at the americas. This one is for people who live in england. Alan _________________________________________________ Hi Alan, Study shows that there is no area in the Americas that comes close to our Canadian 'west coast marine' climate. In fact, the only area on earth with similar climb is that of (much of) the UK; ergo the enquiry in this newsgroup. Newsgroups have been international and open by design since the internet's inauguration eh. Cheers -bg- www.lchb.ca Cheers -bg- www.tlchb.ca |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
On 4/12/05 10:10, in article Jgzkf.35362$Eq5.14503@pd7tw1no, "**bg**"
wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Holmes" To: Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 6:40 AM Subject: Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "**bg**" Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:12 PM Subject: Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed From many floors up (covered balcony facing west, max about 8 hours sun in summer), on the west coast of Canadar, we are figuring folks in yer climb at this ng will have some advice 4us... __________________________________________________ Planning to start some plants from seeds early next year. Have had success in the past, but find they get a bit leggy indoors during early months. Wondering if anyone has experience at starting them later, say right outdoors, in containers, from seed. Try a newsgroup aimed at the americas. This one is for people who live in england. Alan _________________________________________________ Hi Alan, Study shows that there is no area in the Americas that comes close to our Canadian 'west coast marine' climate. In fact, the only area on earth with similar climb is that of (much of) the UK; ergo the enquiry in this newsgroup. Newsgroups have been international and open by design since the internet's inauguration eh. The climate in Vancouver is rather similar to ours in the south west of UK, I believe. I have friends living there and when I visited was surprised to see how much alike our gardens were. Quite often when they email us, we find that we're having very similar weather. Their big advantage is that if they felt like it, they could just drive up the road a bit and go skiing! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
The message Jgzkf.35362$Eq5.14503@pd7tw1no
from "**bg**" contains these words: Study shows that there is no area in the Americas that comes close to our Canadian 'west coast marine' climate. In fact, the only area on earth with similar climb is that of (much of) the UK; ergo the enquiry in this newsgroup. Seems reasonable then. Newsgroups have been international and open by design since the internet's inauguration eh. Quite so, but a UK gardening group is seldom the place to place questions or 'help' about other areas of the globe. Your situation might be an exception, so let's re-examine the original question: Planning to start some plants from seeds early next year. Have had success in the past, but find they get a bit leggy indoors during early months. They will, unless you can give them warmth and extra daylight spectrum light, probably even during daylight hours. Wondering if anyone has experience at starting them later, say right outdoors, in containers, from seed. Yes, and you can more-or-less forget it unless you hit a lucky Indian summer. It's best to start them in February (IME) and put them out as early as possible. It may mean putting them under something like a big bell-cloche during some nights though. I'm looking at twinwall polycarbonate or even triwall for making such, and a greenhouse made from triwall is already taking shape in my head, tomatoes aforethought. -- Rusty Separator in search of a sig |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 4/12/05 10:10, in article Jgzkf.35362$Eq5.14503@pd7tw1no, "**bg**" wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Holmes" To: Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 6:40 AM Subject: Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "**bg**" Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:12 PM Subject: Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed From many floors up (covered balcony facing west, max about 8 hours sun in summer), on the west coast of Canadar, we are figuring folks in yer climb at this ng will have some advice 4us... __________________________________________________ Planning to start some plants from seeds early next year. Have had success in the past, but find they get a bit leggy indoors during early months. Wondering if anyone has experience at starting them later, say right outdoors, in containers, from seed. Try a newsgroup aimed at the americas. This one is for people who live in england. Alan _________________________________________________ Hi Alan, Study shows that there is no area in the Americas that comes close to our Canadian 'west coast marine' climate. In fact, the only area on earth with similar climb is that of (much of) the UK; ergo the enquiry in this newsgroup. Newsgroups have been international and open by design since the internet's inauguration eh. The climate in Vancouver is rather similar to ours in the south west of UK, I believe. I have friends living there and when I visited was surprised to see how much alike our gardens were. Quite often when they email us, we find that we're having very similar weather. Their big advantage is that if they felt like it, they could just drive up the road a bit and go skiing! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) I have to say that I did not publish my comments about Canada not being the uk, it was sent in a personal email. Alan |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
On 4/12/05 15:47, in article , "Alan
Holmes" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... snip I have to say that I did not publish my comments about Canada not being the uk, it was sent in a personal email. Alan Perhaps bg doesn't know that private emails are supposed to be just that? Though if they are insulting or troublemaking, or indeed, someone lies to a group about the content of an email they've received, my personal view on that sort of behaviour is "publish and be damned". ;-) Nonetheless, the climate of e.g. Vancouver really is very like parts of UK, so I don't think bg is being unreasonable in talking to a UK group really, do you? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
Though if they are insulting or troublemaking, or indeed, someone lies to a group LIES TO THE GROUP??????????? who on earth would do that?????????????????? Of course SOME people accuse others of lying and then do not have the guts to say just what those people are lying about do you sacha? |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 4/12/05 15:47, in article , "Alan Holmes" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... snip I have to say that I did not publish my comments about Canada not being the uk, it was sent in a personal email. Alan Perhaps bg doesn't know that private emails are supposed to be just that? Though if they are insulting or troublemaking, or indeed, someone lies to a group about the content of an email they've received, my personal view on that sort of behaviour is "publish and be damned". ;-) Nonetheless, the climate of e.g. Vancouver really is very like parts of UK, so I don't think bg is being unreasonable in talking to a UK group really, do you? That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, the do not understand we have weather! Alan -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... From: "Alan Holmes" Try a newsgroup aimed at the americas. This one is for people who live in england. Alan No, it isn't. "uk" stands for United Kingdom. England is only one of the countries within the United Kingdom. But in any case, this group is not restricted to people who live in the UK. I stand corrected and I prostrate myself before you!(:-) Alan Janet |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, they do not understand we have weather! Alan When you say 'they' do you mean most of them or all of them.....I, for example, understand that you have weather perhaps as well as you do and I am in the USA...H |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"middleton.walker" wrote in message . .. That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, they do not understand we have weather! Alan When you say 'they' do you mean most of them or all of them.....I, for example, understand that you have weather perhaps as well as you do and I am in the USA...H The sentence is pretty clear, 'they' refers to the people in the usa who ask about the climate regions. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"Alan Holmes" wrote in message ... "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 4/12/05 15:47, in article , " That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, the do not understand we have weather! Alan On Google I typed in English climate and then English weather...got many more 'hits' with English climate than with English weather |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
"middleton.walker" wrote in message news On Google I typed in English climate and then English weather...got many more 'hits' with English climate than with English weather Talking about English weather....a few years back I was biking from Weymouth to Plymouth before pedalling my ass to York...the weather was crappy....drizzling and windy...all of a sudden the weather cleared a wee bit and the sun came thru and just at that moment a lady on here bike was passing by on the other side of the road...had to smile to myself at her comment.....'nice day'...a few minutes later the sun dissapeared and the drizzle came on again...H |
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Novice questions re growing tomatoes from seed
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from "middleton.walker" contains these words: "Alan Holmes" wrote in message ... "Sacha" wrote in message .uk... On 4/12/05 15:47, in article , " That I didn't know, but we do get people from the usa asking about our climate regions, the do not understand we have weather! Alan On Google I typed in English climate and then English weather...got many more 'hits' with English climate than with English weather Far more people looking for it, I suppose. Weather's easy to find. -- Rusty Separator in search of a sig |
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