How to grow tomatoes on Long Island
Photo credit: Newsday/Rebecca Cooney | Long Islanders love their summer tomatoes.
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Growing tomatoes on Long Island can be quite a challenge because our weather conditions are so inconsistent. Consider last summer's chronic cool, damp cloudiness contrasted with this year's scorching heat waves and rain shortage. "Since weather conditions in Long Island seem to have extreme fluctuations and seasonal differences," tomato growers are often at the mercy of the climate, Julie Seghrouchni,...
