January through March is bare root season. All of us fruit tree growers are all geeked up! But bare root is not container. Any that don't sell will put in containers and sold later in the season. I never buy anything locally myself, well very little, 99% is via mail order. And that's with any plant, container or otherwise. I actually cannot remember the last time I bought a plant locally? The selection is slime to none compared to online, and I go to 5 or 6 private nurseries all the time for products. I don't like buying products mail order. Some you have to. The main thing that distracts me is the high prices for plants at private nurseries. I can get fabulous fruit trees online for $8.50. Rare and hard to find trees too. Fruit Tree Farm carries 70 cultivars of peaches. Of course some are as high as $35.00 at some nurseries. Most are about $25.00 right now. I could match those prices at the big box stores, if I like the 3 cultivars they carry. I'm hooked on mail order, been doing it for decades now. I also have been seed shopping in all the seed catalogs that came in. Great fun just browsing through them. For example Totally tomatoes has almost 70 pages of tomato varieties to choose from. Although I tend to buy from smaller sellers. I grow a couple hybrids, but mostly heirloom tomatoes. So much info in the catalogs and online. Here's an example I'm growing Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad Ky Heirloom Tomato. Here's a description: It is rare to find such an historically significant vegetable treasure with this kind of provenence. A black man from Kentucky, traveling through the Underground Railroad, arrived in Ripley, Ohio, with the seeds of this tomato variety. Ripley, Ohio, where many slaves crossed the river to freedom, is home to Rankin House, a well known stop on the Underground Railroad and now a museum. The black man later shared seeds with a woman named Lou, who later shared seeds with her great nephew Francis Parker, who lives in Sardinia, Ohio. Sixty years later Francis shared seeds with Wilfred Ellis, owner of Ellis' Feed Mill. Wilfred shared them with Susan Barber, who shared them with Kentucky tomato guru Gary Millwood and me. Susan said that Wilfred is now 79 years old, and Francis several years older than he. This tomato is a 4- 12 ounce, round, dark pink, canner or cooking tomato, juicy and seedy with thin skin and an acidic flavor, some having green shoulders. Sparse regular leaf foliage. The seeds are irregular in size and shape. This is not a "New and Improved" variety but it has performed better each year over the last several growing seasons I've had it. In 2011 it grew well and produced well even in standing water through the spring. I make my own tomato sauce, so this will be added to the mix. Most sauce tomatoes don't taste good fresh, but great cooked. I grow some hybrid cherries for fresh eating, salads and such. I mostly grow tomate seeds direct from Italy for sauce. One of the best and very bad tasting fresh is Costoluto Genovese - Maturity midseason Growth habit indet. Leaf type regular Fruit color red Fruit shape irregular, ribbed, beefsteak Fruit size medium Fruit type slicer Variety type open-pollinated, heirloom Country Italy This post was edited by Drew51 on Wed, Jan 29, 14 at 17:07

Planting directly in a container with no drain hole will inevitably lead to the death of the planting. If it's not from over-watering, it will be from an accumulation of salts from fertilizers and irrigation water. You only need one hole in the bottom. You may be able to use a regular speed drill for the hole because TC is so soft, but it will ruin the bit (unless he has a way to resharpen). A masonry bit is better and a spade point bit is best. I'll leave a link to a thread about the drilling part. From my experience, I can tell you that the suggestion in the thread by 'Laidbackdood' is more apt to get you in trouble than help, so you may wish to disregard it. Al Here is a link that might be useful: Drilling info

I guess I just think of places like PA and NJ, and how they are farther south, and yet still zone 6. But admittedly I always forget to think of proximity to the water, and that would change things, so being on the island would make a difference. I googled, though, and found this. Who knows? I think you can find three different maps with three different results, lol. Not trying to be argumentative with anyone. I was just really somewhat taken aback when I saw Brooklyn zone 7. Sounds so tropical, lol. :) Dee P.S. Also interesting to see Suffolk county being zone 6. Must be elevation, I guess, but it is funny to me to see the north shore as zone 7 and the middle of the island as zone 6! Here is a link that might be useful: Cornell NY hardiness map

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