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Paying attention to nature is the best guide to know when it’s Tomato Planting Time on your patch of earth. Knowing your Soil Temp is one of the 5 Pillars to Summer success, in gardens at altitude. Mine are almost 2 feet tall, full of tomatoes and flowers.
The only offerings were from commercial nurseries around sea level. Canberra and surrounds received seedlings from Sydney mostly, and if you were lucky, they may have come from Albury at 165m.
Naysayers There are three kinds of people in this world. The ones who know. There are those of us who constantly learn and grow. Then there are Naysayers. When I first started my highland gardening journey, I was a novice to be sure. Moving from the coast I had some horticulture education, I was young,