09-25-2019, 12:00 PM
I’ve been finding out from trying to grow too many, that my group of tomatoes that are started later than about March 20 don’t grow as well in the seedling stage (I find it easier to just use popular holidays, so I’m actually using St. Patrick’s Day as the deadline, giving myself a couple of days of leniency). This could simply be my lack of dedication to the later babies because I’m already overwhelmed by the earlier ones, or lack of sufficient growing space. But they have also been subject to being overwhelmed by pests and start of fungal issues in the hardening off stage that the larger plants can shrug off or outgrow.