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The author is not talking about vegetables but various non-food plants that require cool overnight temperatures.
by jt2190 1y ago
The author is not talking about vegetables but various non-food plants that require cool overnight temperatures.
- griffzhowl 1y ago> author is not talking about vegetables He's talking about growing tomatoes all the way through the article. Nothing but talking about how tomatoes grow
- kragen 1y agoHe does have one paragraph about tomatoes, but he also talks about Andean cacti like Browningia candelaris, "plants from places like cloud forests of Central America", Solanum pennellii, and "plants from (...) the Páramo of Ecuador". My mother was able to grow tomatoes successfully in Pohnpei, which is at 3° latitude and never gets outside the temperature range of about 23°–32°. https://weather.com/es-GT/tiempo/10dias/l/cc8849a0250ec854cbafdad69db504d7368bc145837b48b94be9f444d91d8447?traffic_source=footerNav_Tenday https://weather.com/es-GT/tiempo/10dias/l/cc8849a0250ec854cb.... They were pretty leggy though; she had a hard time keeping them alive.
- griffzhowl 1y agoTrue, I overstated that
- chimpanzee 1y ago> He's talking about growing tomatoes all the way through the article. Nothing but talking about how tomatoes grow This is flat-out wrong. (And the comment you replied to is also wrong.) He mentions tomatoes only 6 times in about 1500 words. These words appear half-way into the article, in only 2 of the roughly 16 paragraphs. Three of those instances are in direct reference or comparison to the wild ancestors of tomatoes. While not specifying, the article also mentions high-altitude, tropical plants and cacti.