We still have a few more weeks of cool, overnight temperatures, here in the PNW. Too cool for plants like tomato to be out in the garden without a cover.
On the deck and in the garden, I use gallon milk jugs, with the bottoms cut out, over single tomato plants.
For my basil starts, I use plastic clamshells that lettuce came in this past winter.
And in the garden, I use these row covers over a long stretch of small plants.
I planted out my tomato seedlings on the deck, around the first of April, which is about a month earlier than is recommended for our area. They're doing well, under their covers. And I hope to be slicing into a fresh tomato in July this year, which would be about 6 weeks earlier than planting into the bare ground in the garden, around the 6th of May.
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