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To: neverdem

It is 45 degrees here in the Poconos this morning - - about 75 miles from NYC as the crow flies, but here the elevation is about 1400 feet.

Of 11 tomato plants - some as high as my waist and two feet across (covered with blossoms)- - only two have been able to set fruit at these very cold night time temps. Forecast indicates low to mid-50’s at night for the next week at least. Tomatoes won’t make fruit at these low temperatures.

If you look at http://www.spaceweather.com a Russian volcano has spewed SO2 into the air in the far north which will make the situation even colder since SO2 reflects sun light.


15 posted on 07/06/2009 3:37:15 AM PDT by finnsheep
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To: finnsheep; neverdem
52 here in West ByGod Virginia. We had 78 on the 4th, and 73 for a high yesterday. I am at 1200 ft, 40 miles west of Winchester (VA). No tomatoes here, either, on 12 plants. I do have strawberries and the blackberries are ripening, but smallllllll.

oops, wrong blackberries...

16 posted on 07/06/2009 3:44:10 AM PDT by WVKayaker (Words are plentiful, but deeds are precious.- Lech Walesa)
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