Tomatoes Hardening Off

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?XJKBU 16 April 2013 Tomatoes Hardening Off
This is the first warm weather this Spring. It is cloudy and temperature is about 12C. All the greenhouse tomatoes were placed in the partial shade outside over the last two days. This is to harden them off. They cannot be placed in the outdoor ground garden until about the 24 of May.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?SNPMB 3 April 2013 Tomato Plants. Zone 5.
All plants growing well. Watering from the bottom.Supporting plants using pipe cleaners and four foot fibre glass stakes.Still too cold to place outside to begin the hardening off process.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?UXSLL 9 March 2013 Potting Up Tomato Plants. Thirty four plants.Potting up completed.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ENRPD 5 March 2013 Potting Up Tomatoes
As the tomatoes reach an appropriate size they are moved to a larger pot. Pictures depict the potting up process.Six plants were moved up today.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ACHAC 26 February 2013 Tomato Growth (47 days)
This is the growth to date. It has been exceptionally cold at night but my plants are thriving. There are more plants than the 30 or so that I need, which will be given to neighbours, when I pot up in about a month.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?NLDPS 5 February 2013 Tomato seeds.
Starting tomatoes for the 2013 season 9 January 2013. Selection is: Black Russian, Tomato Blue P20, Belaris Orange, Dora, Black Krim, An orange type name unknown. Some seeds were sent to me last year and were grown too late in the season to get a good crop, so are being grown this year. There is a total of around 30 plants, five of each type. The Seeds were started on damp kleenex to verify germination. Then were planted in separate containers. The containers are on a heating pad and will be utilized as required on very cool nights. Artificial lights are never used. Light is any convenient place until the plants can be placed in the small greenhouse, when it gets warm enough.