"I'm a long time gardener and was looking for some new, fun varieties of tomatoes to grow this year. A Google search of tomato varieties for the Pacific Northwest produced a Sound Consumer article for 2003, though it came up as the second link! I chuckled when I read the story of growing tomatoes under a cherry tree. I, too, have found that tomatoes need far less direct sun than some suspect.
I am at about 1,000 feet elevation and I grow Cayenne peppers a plenty, along with Hungarian hot wax peppers and great jalapenos. Just start plants indoors from seed in March and wait to put them out until May. The only pepper that has failed to ripen was habaneros. These results are year after year in a garden that only gets full sun until the afternoon and in the fall even less. Don't believe the books, I even grow okra!"
-Angie Wright, PCC Sound Consumer, March, 2010.
post script......Enumclaw is also about 1,000 feet above sea level.
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