I’m in 6b and put my tomatoes out 3 weeks ago…but… I wrapped fleece around the cages. We’ve had weather extremes, but my tomatoes have thrived in their mini greenhouses through all of the blazing heat, wind and rainstorms. They are growing well and look happy.

Great info, I was going to plant this weekend, but I think I will wait till June slso,6b Montrose Colorado, same thing here, no 90 though. I had to build a fire Just a few nights ago,

Hello from deep in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains on the NC/VA line. We still have had some chilly nights and are expecting a few more but hopefully not too much longer.

My comfrey is growing and flowering like crazy too. I'm in ct 6b

Here in South Australia we had a mild summer with cool nights. The plants struggled even though I planted later, making it a very short season for harvesting. Now we are in winter and I’ve never felt so cold, but the weeds are loving it…….grrr.

Hey Mark, I'm in Zone 7 and the same here the weather keeps going up and down.

We haven’t had any hail storms in Bergen County. I followed your instructions and planted sooooo many potatoes and they all growing so beautifully 😄

Zone 7a and my comfy is flowering also. So bizarre. Unfortunate because I'm not getting the big lush leaves that my chickens love to eat. Oh well, at least the bees are happy. And I agree with you about you tomato strategy. No rush . I used to plant earlier, but honestly, I didn't see a benefit in the long run .

I’m in 9b Florida. I put out my tomatoes on February 14. I picked my last tomato for the season this week. 😂

I’m in zone 5b we had light frost last night. I only had cold weather plants in the ground. Even though they’re cold hardy I covered them last night. I usually plant my tomatoes Memorial weekend.

We had a low of 40 last night , here in northern Indiana . Strange weather.

Here I Wis zone 5a we are having crazy weather to. My perennials are doing fine. I only started daikon radishes early and their doing fine. Going to plant some currant bushes this year. I'm excited about that.

36 in MA last night after multiple days in the high 70s and low 80s. Had to cover up the eggplants and peppers - tomatoes were fine even though i didnt cover

Awesome

I was an eager beaver this year and planted my tomatoes a month ago. I lost a couple, but I've been covering them at night and putting large handwarmers under the coverings. They've been holding up in the cold nights and seem to be doing well. The large handwarmers seem to help.

I agree the wether has been so up and down here in NJ. I’m in zone 7a. It’s kind of funny that I recognized my own accent when listening to you and wondered if you’re from NJ as well. Lol. I watched another video and sure enough you are lol. My tomatoes were doing really good and then really bad after up potting them. They’re in the garden now and most are making a nice come back. I have no clue what was happening but the tops looked like they rotted and fell off on some. I ended up putting them all in a trash pile outside that I neglected and to my surprise they started getting leaves down low on the stem 🤷🏼‍♀️

Definitely holding off planting our tomatoes for a while now. Thank you for sharing. I put one in a raised bed with a cover as an experiment without hardening off a few weeks ago and i thought it died but it’s coming back. Zone 6B central WA cascade mountains

I’m in Maryland, 8A and it’s been unseasonably chilly here. I had to restart my peppers and tomatoes because they didn’t like it outside and slugs got ‘em too.

We also had some weather swings here in 8a Louisiana actually lost my first tomatoes because I jumped the gun. I knew better…good thing I had backups inside!

🙏💜 4b for me and im only potting mine up now, 300+ plants. It's gonna be a late one. Thank you for the patience reminder

When I lived in upstate NY (zone 7a I think), the general rule of thumb was that you shouldn't plant anything before Memorial Day. We had tulips in our backyard that would bloom in late April - early May but then they'd die after a week or two when sporadic overnight frosts would come in.

Frost tonight and tomorrow night here in Norther NY. Soil temp is still in the low 50's so we have to wait any way. Last frost day is around June 1st.

I am in zone 5 in southern Utah. Our last frost date is supposedly May 15. In the 15 years I've lived here, that has been the last frost only twice. I never plant tomatoes until June 1, and then only if I can see a 10 day forecast of lows 40 and above. I think this year we might be done with frost and I might actually get some fruit, but I'm not counting on it.

yeah, here in northeast Ohio we got the 32F night temperatures too. The ground temperature is still pretty low here. I'm just going to wait until memorial day.

I am in New Jersey 6B. I put 2 pepper plants out in the garden two days ago and they both died last night. The weather has been very odd, next week the highs are in the 70's with a low in the 30's tonight.

Is that a peach tree in the background? That's what I've had my challenges with here in South Carolina Zone 7B. We've been having heat spells very early and that's making my peach trees confused and they are flowering early and then we'll get a cold snap and all the flowers will drop. I may have to replant them with a different variety that deals with this kind of weather changes. It's sad because I've nursed them for quite a few years now. Oh well just have to keep adjusting with the weather. To me, at this time, nighttime temperature and soil temperature is the way to go when deciding planting but unfortunately weather predictions cannot be forecasted many days in advance so that makes planning difficult. Oh well.

I'm hardening off the majority of my tomatoes, but I'll put in just a few Early Girls just to scratch the tomato itch! The rest will go in on Memorial weekend in Michigan 😊

Yeah, I was an idiot. I put them in way too early and I know better. But, they looked gorgeous and ready to plant. I lost a couple watermelon and some squashes even though they were covered. I will definitely wait and yeah... I needed this video to kick me in the rear!!

the past few months in Shropshire in the uk where Im growing, right up until early this may the weather has been it seems like a lot of places have been, all over the place, ive had my earliest tomatoes out since 20th april and the erratic weather has for sure caused stress and slowed growth down a bit but since the storm we had on the 8th may the weather is now im noticing stabilizing with more consistantly warm temperatures and im glad because my tomatoes and chillies seem much happier. but I think to get the most production from our seemingly more uncertain lengths of our growing season especially with the more erratic weather across the globe, even in warm climates it would be worth not only starting consistant heat loving crops indoors or in a greenhouse but to grow them on in a more temperature stable enviornment. of course i love watching my tomatoes training up outside so i was thinking because i dont have a greenhouse, room in the conservetory or alot of money ive been thinking of cheap ways to protect summer crops outside and decided it wouldnt be a bad idea to use a regular tomato cage or make an A frame support and simply attach some polythene to the support in way it could easily be removed in case the weather picks up hot, or even with direct sowing in which im doing with squashes is using clear plastic bottles as a temporal propagator to start them, of couse night time temps can drop so id use a slightly wider bottle than usual to place a small candle in the middle directly under the open cap of the bottle so nothing burns, id blow the candle out in the morning unless its cold. a simple cheap enough way with keeping temps more consistant for the crops without taking up any extra space because its already in your outside beds. Keep up the great work Mark your channel really focuses on the fundamental key to successful organic gardening, the reactivation of the soil food web, something your simple and clear manner of teaching really opened my eyes to. thanks mark Have a great season. Billy from shropshire UK

I know it's going to the 40s here most nights this week here in NJ zone 7a by the shore. Unfortunately I was over anxious and put tomatoes & peppers out already. Do you have a frost cover you recommend? Love your channel!

Mark I have watch a lot of your videos about winter rie and leaves when you get ready to plant do you put leaves down first or the rie

Help! Put my heirloom tomato's out in a new raised bed garden in central Kentucky. The leaves are turning yellow/purple and purple veining, pepper right next to them going the same direction. They look just awful.

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Since you also grow sunflowers, is there any factual basis on not growing them near the veggies due to them being allelopathic?