I am a bit late on this. You can start fertilizing the tomatoes if they look doing good and not stressed after the transplant. I am sort of against any contraptions such as weed guard. It does not really help and in the longer run they are a pain. You should be fine with your raised beds on mulch. A weed here and there is OK. A while back someone told me this: you have two pile of dirt - one with weed and one without - which one you will select. The answer is the one with the weed since the other pile is so bad that even weed does not want to grow in that. Anyway, that is just an anecdote.

manfromyard, citrus reproduces in very unique ways. It's possible to get a genetic clone of some citrus from seed. I don't know of any other tree fruit for which that is true, nor any vegetable crop, whether hybrid or not. Perhaps someone else can explain the science behind citrus seeds, but it has nothing to do with the difference between hybrids and non-hybrids. That said, there are some hybrids (inter-species crosses) in the citrus world, similar I suppose to apriums and pluots. Hybrid vegetables/field crops, however, are not -- triticale is the only exception I can think of, and that's rare enough most people haven't ever even heard of it -- inter-species crosses, so they're very different sorts of hybrids. Yukkuri, when you say that most tree fruits are HIGHLY hybridized what do mean? Do you have a definition in mind? Your suggestion that there are degrees of hybridization seems to imply that you have a unique definition. The fact that apples (as a normal example; citrus being very abnormal) don't come true to seed has nothing to do with hybridization. This is clearly the case because no apple (as with most fruits) will ever come true to seed. Just because a human child isn't a genetic clone of his mother (i.e. the child doesn't come "true to seed") doesn't make the child a "hybrid" in any meaningful sense. The same is true with apples. You've probably heard that apples normally need another variety for a pollinator. Although apples have male (pollen) and female (ovaries) flower parts on the same tree, the tree's female parts generally aren't receptive to its own pollen, thus the need for a second tree, so that tree A can pollinate tree B and vice versa. That's just a natural defense that apples (as a fairly normal example) have against inbreeding, and outcrossing carries biological advantages. The result, however, of pollinating tree A with pollen from tree B is that the seed will be a cross, and in the same way, even though human children may carry certain traits of their parents, each child will be unique (and therefore not "true to seed"), and the same is true with any apple tree you would grow from seed.

Socalnolypia, I have Thomasville Citrangequat is a Kumquat hybrid as well, and I know for sure it has no problem growing in Atlanta outside unprotected when it has matured enough, of course in a ideal spot against the south or east wall of the house. If we talked about Kumquat hybrid between the 2 slighty hardy citrus, the off springs were usually less cold hardy compared to their parents! Atlanta winters have been pretty warm and stable for the previous 34 years. https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/GA/Atlanta/extreme-annual-atlanta-low-temperature.php Here is Dallas - Lowest Temperature for Each Year https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/TX/Dallas/extreme-annual-dallas-low-temperature.php By comparing the 2 reports from Atlanta and Dallas, we can see that in the last 10 years the lowest temperatures in 2 states were not much different. Dallas was not always warmer than Atlanta. By the year of 2011, 2013, 2016, Atlanta was warmer than Dallas and by 2017 both were tied at 15F in lowest winter temperature records.

So i might get a taste of the Fukushu this year before bring in if they mature similarly. Traditionally here, its really not frost until early December. So if they are anything alike I may get a meiwa, although I've never eaten a kumquat and i hate to buy anything that I never actually ate, but I don't eat roses either, they are nice upright trees and meiwa on PT looks like a nice smaller candidate to go out in the ground with protection as a trial. Think its too late in season to settle in and does the broomstick rule apply? The specimen they are selling on your link is a 3/4 gallon so its definitely smaller.