Do Roma tomatoes grow well in Alaska (Wasilla region)? What variety would be best? Do they need to be in a greenhouse?
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Originally posted by kayburTomatoes love warmth, so of course, if you want a healthy crop, you need to take varieties that are resistant to cold. Greenhouses need phytolamps for better growth. You can order some of the ones offered here. In Alaska, there is less light, therefore it is better to provide high-quality lighting immediately.Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
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Originally posted by Doug in Alaska View PostNo need for phytolamps in a greenhouse up here. In Alaska, there is much more light in the summer months so I don't understand your statement.
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I've grown tomatoes (usually early girls of some sort) in 5-gallon buckets outside and up against the south side of my house in Anchorage and they do grow and produce fruit very well, but it's always a struggle to get them to ripen as the threat of the first frost approaches. I usually only get a few that ripen on the plant. I probably harvest about 90% of them green and then ripen them inside. Once I tried bringing the plants inside in the fall to let them finish but bugs that were never a problem when they were outside really seemed to love it when they came into the warm house (wife said I can't do that again, lol)."Fishing relaxes me. It's like yoga, except I still get to kill something." --Ron Swanson
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The success of tomatoes here hinges on one thing: warm feet. tomatoes hate cold soils and will stop ripening the second the ground gets too cold for them. I had good luck with cherry tomatoes on black pots that soak up heat, and people with green houses have no problem keeping their soils warmer. Another thing that do horribly here for the same reason, basil and spinach.
On the other hand grow some cilantro, a single plant will grow five feet tall.
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