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Old October 24, 2011   #9
Direct Sunlight
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To each their own, I guess I'd love to have more shade most of the year. In the summer, the garden just bakes. I know in NJ you've got easier tomato-growing conditions than we do. That small plant on the right surrounded by the pumpkin vines? That's a rutgers tomato, started in late May and just now growing nicely. It'll probably just start producing when the frost hits it in the next few weeks. Sigh.

It is fun this time of year though, knowing everything will go crazy on into November, if the nighttime temperatures will allow it. Two years ago, I picked about 100 tomatoes on December 3, the day before a big frost killed the plants. Last year, I had some watermelons come in the week before Halloween.
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