Name: Sandy B. Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b) (Zone 4b-maybe 5a)
Thanks, Caroline -- that's actually pretty much what I would expect to happen, with the plants coming up too late to be very useful. Almost might as well wait for the volunteers to grow -- which do occasionally give me ripe tomatoes, but not reliably and always really late.
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~ Albert Schweitzer C/F temp conversion