We were given an abandoned McDonalds drink cooler to use as a coldframe. It has a curved piece of glass on the front, and removable glass shelves inside and on top. While it was certainly not engineered to be a coldframe, it is designed perfectly for it’s new use. It currently protects 63 tomato plants and a miscellany of cacti, and may very well be wondering what is going on, and when it will be filled with sugary drinks again.
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Or, the tomatoes are wondering if they will be converted into sugary drinks? Or perhaps they are hoping to be cut up and laid down inside of a delicious big mac? Where did you get this?
Maybe you should show this to a McDonald’s restaurant. They could market it and give you a percentage. It is a great use of the container.
do you think the tomatoes know that they are growing up in a corporate shadow???
My tomato plants all suddenly have spots all over the leaves. Are they in trouble? was it because it was too wet? Was it too cold? This happened almost overnight.
JF – e-mail me a picture, if you can. How cold has it been getting at night? Sometimes tomato plants look a little ragged for a while after they’ve been transplanted. How do the growing shoots look? What colour are the spots?