{"id":15,"date":"2007-05-11T11:47:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/between-a-pot-and-a-cold-place-when-to-transplant-tomatoes-outdoors\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T15:47:38","slug":"between-a-pot-and-a-cold-place-when-to-transplant-tomatoes-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/11\/between-a-pot-and-a-cold-place-when-to-transplant-tomatoes-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"Between A Pot And A Cold Place: When to transplant tomatoes outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making tomato wine this year, and for me that starts with growing tomatoes from seed. I transplant them into the garden when it gets warm enough, meaning overnight lows of 50 Fahrenheit or higher. The latest forecast is for lows in the mid 40&#8217;s for the next 10 days, though, so I should delay transplanting them because it&#8217;s still too cold.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pic\/future tomato vineyard.jpg\" alt=\"The Gold Nuggets of my future tomato vineyard are getting crowded in their pots - 5\/10\/07\" title=\"My Gold Nugget tomatoes on 5\/10\/07\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The photo above shows my Gold Nugget tomatoes on 5\/10\/07, and as you can see they are getting crowded in their pots. They need to go somewhere else soon, either the garden or other pots. No matter how carefully it&#8217;s done, digging up the plant and relocating it delivers a shock that temporarily stunts the plant&#8217;s growth. Repotting them would mean delivering this shock twice in a short time, once when I move them to new pots and again when I move them to the garden. So I should transplant into the garden right away to avoid this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I&#8217;ll resolve this dilemma yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making tomato wine this year, and for me that starts with growing tomatoes from seed. I transplant them into the garden when it gets warm enough, meaning overnight lows of 50 Fahrenheit or higher. The latest forecast is for lows in the mid 40&#8217;s for the next 10 days, though, so I should delay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-tomato-wine","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}