Hi there! Good question! We haven’t tried those specific products, but have seen them before. Based on our tests with our “Garbage Bag Greenhouses” (which are very similar, but DIY), they would have a positive impact. It won’t be quite as good as a temperature controlled greenhouse, but better than straight outdoors. It is important to pollinate the flowers under the bags, typically just by tickling the flowers occasionally with your fingers, otherwise you won’t get tomatoes. (Pollinators won’t go beneath the plastic, providing natural pollination.) Hope that helps! Good luck with your gardens!

This is great news! Glad you were able to get quite a few tomatoes. Sounds like you’re really taking care of them. Appreciate your kind comment.

We really want to try them too. We will eventually trial them as we’ve heard great things about both Silver Fir and Northern Lights. It’s hard to choose between tried and true favorites and testing things out sometimes. Ground cherries are exceptional growers in our climate!

We are in FBX also and I would love to get my hands on some northern lights and silver fir. Just ordered ground cherries also so excited that they do well here 🙂
Happy gardening!

Greetings Tim! Thanks for visiting us again, we enjoyed the opportunity to contribute to the News-Miner! We have the Silvery Fir Tree on our list, for sure, love the history of it. We are working on some experimental techniques this year to improve outdoor tomato production, specifically targeted at determinate tomatoes like the Silvery Fir. We love ground cherries here, some years they really pop off! Definitely a gem of northern nightshade production.

Thanks for the comment Tim! That looks like an interesting variety and with a background like that, it’s no wonder it does well up here! We’ll see if we can get our hands on some seeds for 2022!

Thanks Susie! Glad we could be helpful here and we appreciate your visit. We continually refine this post and others with new info and our long term goal is to get something like going for most common garden annuals!

That variety looks fantastic! I love the bi-color on the inside of the tomato as opposed to the more common skin variegation. I have put it on our buy list for 2021! Thanks for the tip, we’ll definitely try them out!

You are welcome! We are glad that we could contribute to your garden and wish you the best of luck. We love our Golden Treasure storage tomatoes. We still have a couple dozen that are still in good condition, harvested in August and it’s now January!