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From: alan@mtxinu.UUCP (Alan Tobey)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Sub Arctic Tomatoes
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 15:07:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 15:07:32 1986
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I've grown the sub-arctic varieties in foggy Berkeley, mostly in an
attempt to get tomatoes ripe by June before the fog sets in (normal
varieties usually won't ripen till September heat).  They do set well
in cool (50F night) weather, and they do ripen in near the promised
50-odd days.  The fruits are small, and the flavor is merely decent --
though far better than store tomatoes.  Overall, it's worth setting
out a few plants at your earliest conceivable date and gambling on
frost -- the payoff is ripe tomatoes maybe a month before you'd get
them otherwise.