"Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:12:28 +0100, "Ophelia" >
> wrote:
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>>"Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
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>>> I only buy tomato plants that are at a steep discount or bedraggled
>>> towards the end of the tomato-plant buying seasons.
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>>Do you resurrect these plants? How do you deal with them to encourage
>>more
>>fruit.. or do you save them for another year??
>>I see bedraggled plants and think they are finished.
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> They have to have some life left in them or I do not try, and the
> damage has to be from neglect, not disease. I think of it as "Plant
> Rescue."

Understood!


> Tomatoes are pretty easy to save...just plant them deeper if they have
> gotten leggy or the lowest leaves are missing or in bad shape.

Ok, thanks

> Around here, grocery stores are good places to get such plants. I have
> gotten rose bushes, pots of petunias, veggie sets, etc and done well
> with them. Besides, at such cheap prices ranging from 50 cents for a
> tomato or up to $5 for a rose bush, I am never out much money.

I have seen such plants in our 'Garden Centres'. Last time I was there, I
saw some *very* bedraggled tomato plants, ie droopy and leggy and some of
the leaves on the verge of dying and wondered why they were still for sale.
It never ocurred to me that they could be viable. I shall look at such
plants with new eyes now

Thanks Boron, that is something to think on!

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