Want to start tomatoes

[Kim_NC]

Oh, I really need to move south!!! I want a longer growing season!!!!!

I'm so jealous!

Tell me about it. I am just finishing planting and they are complaining about not having enough room for their "second garden" plants. A second garden here is when the crows eat all the seed you planted the first time and you have to plant more. I won't even be harvesting anything for another 5-6 weeks. I just get to look at their pics and think happy thoughts.

My home/family is in PA. But I've been in NC for all my adult life...since college, now 51 yr old. I have to say I love the long garden season here. Sometimes I would like to be living in PA, closer to family....but then I think about that skimpy 90 day growing season and.....

For 2nd crop tomatoes, I'm trying an experiment this year. Usually I just purchase some plants late. whatever is on sale in June, and go for it. But I read an article that claimed plants started from cuttings of existing mature plants actually do better - since the cuttings are mature, they have a 'jump start' once rooted. SooOOOooo, I'm going to try both this time and see which performs best.

edit: typo

 

[HunkieDorie23]

We lived in GA for 4 years (my hubby's in the service) so I know what I am missing. Although I wasn't a great gardener back then and then the soil was so different I didn't garden much. It was very sandy and you only had to dig about a foot and you hit water. If I had been raised there it would have been different. Where I live here in Ohio, we have a lot of clay and shell covered by with a top coat of dirt and cow pooh, so the soil isn't too bad here. And if you dig deep enough here you hit an abandon coal mine. They are literally everywhere.