Vlad asked if it was surprising to me that tomatoes were grown in Berlin. Yes, Vlad, it is. My understanding of sumer weather conditions in Berlin suggest that temperatures in the 22-24 C range (70s F) are usual. Here, where I live (just north of Washington, D.C.) we routinely experience over 30 days per year with temperatures over 90 degree F. We have, in effect, a month-long season of extremely hot tempertures which you do not get in Germany. Furthermore. during those hot periods, it does not cool off at night very much. We take tomatoes for granted here: they grow like weeds and self-sow. But I've read about efforts to grow tomatoes in Britain, where at least in the past they were grown under glass. Since Berlin is only about 60-70 miles farther north than London, I wondered if growing conditions were similar there.Somewhere in an old book I read about a British grower who was unable to flower Lycoris squamigera as a garden plant, but did have success growing it under glass. Jim McKenneyMontgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone7, 39 N, -77 E, where Lycoris radiata var,. radiata is still blooming. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…