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10 Apr 22, Celeste Archer (Canada - Zone 7b Mild Temperate climate)

You can look up the germination (seed hatching) temperature for various vegetables online. Compare this temperature to your soil temperature (even your air temperature to get an idea) -- the germination temperature needs to be met and sustained for the seeds to germinate (in addition to water, soil and presence of light for some shallow planted seeds). Most likely you will still benefit from starting indoors -- it all depends on temperatures AND which veggies you are planting - some veggies seeds have fairly low germination temps - beans, chard, mustard etc. Other veggies have very high germination temps: tomatoes, peppers etc. Remember that the germination temp needs to not only be met, it needs to be sustained. Since you can control your inside temperature - I would start my seeds indoors -- and potentially add a heating pad under the seedling tray. If you plant outdoors you can use a tarp to help warm the soil; I prefer clear elevated about 6" above the ground (like a green house) to help warm the soil when the sun hits it

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08 Apr 22, Anonymous (USA - Zone 4a climate)

Check the planting guide here for the zone you live in

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15 Mar 22, Sue Di Giacomo (USA - Zone 10a climate)

Does it help to run a misting system during the heat of Florida summertime or would that do more harm than good; ie risk burning the leaves or inviting diseases etc.

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17 Mar 22, Kylee (USA - Zone 5b climate)

my understanding is that keeping the leaves wet may make the plant more susceptible to disease and fungal issues, so its probably best to only water the base of the plant. Just make sure to give your tomatoes some shade throughout the day and i think they'll be alright

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01 Mar 22, Gary Hall (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Did anyone else have problems with tomatoes this year I had to convert back to my tiny Toms ( skin too tough for those pesky pests next year I going back to Nicotine spray that'll knock them around a bit) .

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07 Aug 22, Tom (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

My summer toms had a lot of rust but I kept cutting out the infected foliage and the rest of the plant produced just fine. The vines didn't look great but I had bumper crops of large, delicious tomatoes. Also a long season the seed came up in early spring and they produced for 6 months.

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10 Mar 22, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I have a problem with wilt at the moment - never had it before. Very annoying.

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04 Mar 22, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I don't have much problems with cherry tomatoes - other varieties the pest generally get to them and yellow leaf curl virus. I'm going to try double layer of bird netting I bought cheap.

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20 Feb 22, Debbie (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

Hi I live in Central Otago and have a variety ot tomato plants that have flowers but no fruit. Am I wasting my time, will they produce fruit & ripen?

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31 Mar 22, Wendy (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

I find the shorter growing tomatoes like early girl do much better - anything longer than 8 weeks seems to only just have fruit at the end of the season and then no time to ripen

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