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Old 09-13-2023, 02:49 PM
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I've read that tomatoes can be planted here in September and harvested in a couple months. Anybody have experience with that? And where might plants be sold around here now?
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You can buy set plants at Lowe's Garden Center (I imagine Home Depot as well). They have a good variety of plants.

My "success" with them has been off and on. Do well with springtime planting (harvesting in May) but not as well with the fall ones. I think my problem the last two years was that I waited until October to plant. This year I started my own seedlings, which I transplanted outside a couple of weeks ago and are now about 4" - 5" high and doing well. I'm trying one I never tried before; "Abe Lincoln" which is an inteterminate heirloom variety.

Peppers seem to do well whenever. Cucumbers and zucchini, not so much.

Good luck.