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Article: START SOON, TOMATO RANCHERS.(Spotlight on Home and Gardening)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 28, 1997
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Byline: Anne Raver The New York Times
Soon I will be starting my tomato ranch, putting two or three tiny seeds into little pots filled with sterile, moist, soilless mix. I will set them on top of the refrigerator, where they will get just enough bottom heat to germinate. I will cover them with plastic wrap to keep them from drying out but will also keep an eye out for droplets that might appear, a sign of too much moisture.
If it looks like a spring shower under there, I will lift off the cellophane and give my babies a breather, because too much moisture encourages fungal diseases that can kill tender seedlings in a trice.
Even now, as I order ...
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