acquire love apple in Florida and Lower Alabama is n’t easy . Yesterday , I posted this video explaining why it took us a $ 10,000 nursery to in the end grow a good crop of tomatoes .
Being from the north , I still ca nt in full comprehend how its hard to grow tomato in the south . You theoretically just ask 3 - 4 month of moderate temps to do so . I reckon all my local grocery store stock tomatoes from mexico which should be red-hot in my mind . The green house does nt make sense to me either . To me , green menage are hot . They extend a season but even in canada when its over 30c mid summertime , it would get up to 50 in a fleeceable house . I do nt see how that helps you in a very hot climate . Have you ever conceive of just putting spook cloth suspended over a row ? That would make sense to me . Water never seems to be a problem unless there s too much . But if that s the case , mounds above ground level or provoke bed with very well run out filth would be great . Tomatoes are like a bound of the rainforest or even a cloud forrest plant , originally . I ’m not doubting you know better than me . I just do nt get it . It seems to me its always capital tomato conditions there except maybe july , aug . Just put some specter textile over top .
Yes , at first coup d’oeil at the USDA zona it seems like we have a moderately mild clime for some of the year , and Lycopersicon esculentum should do okay . Yet that is n’t the font .
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Disease will take them randomly . One day , a plant is plenteous and green , the next twenty-four hour period it wilt entirely without recovery . Stink bugs and leaf - footed bugs puncture and tear the yield , stimulate it to rot . It will be ironic for three weeks , followed by 10″ of rainwater in a duet of days , causing the fruit to swell and dissever open . Weather hits the 90s in May , after a last Robert Frost that usually materialise at the end of March / beginning of April . Tomatoes often start to mature , but as they move around red , something will chew them and you ’ll reach down to pick what looks like a prissy yield , only to discover the back one-half of it is all rotten mush . The sun gets so hot that it can burn the plant . Hornworms take entire flora in a daylight or two . Up northwards they are so easy to grow … down here , they just suffer . It seems like it would work , but it takes high effort . It ’s like endeavor to play King of the Hill against a professional NFL squad .
The greenhouse has really made a remainder . Now I ’m wondering what else might flourish in there that is n’t prosper in the independent garden !
Cabbages in winter , perhaps ? ananas ? Artichokes ?
It ’s a whole new world for us to research .
