When To Plant Tomatoes

The ideal time to plant tomatoes is when you're pretty sure the seedling/baby plant won't get injured by frost or overly cold conditions. For us, the ideal time (assuming, of course, we're not going through a cold snap at the time) is around March 24^th or so.

As you may know if you've read the previous blog postings, we have two tomato plants ready to go into the ground and several seedlings that need to get to that point. The ground will be fine for these tomatoes, that's no problem. But it's almost inevitable that some of these tomatoes won't be fully developed before our summer heat kicks in. If they're not developed enough and the summer heat hits, the plant won't fruit.

That's why timing is important!