First tomatoes out to harden off - Page 2

GoDawgs · April 23, 2021

I brought the tomatoes in from the front porch the past two nights. After checking my historical weather data it goes back 22 years), I'm convinced that was the last cold snap. We'll be planting them out on Sunday since tomorrow we're supposed to have rough weather. Oh boy!

SteveP · April 26, 2021

Update on my planting some tomatoes on April 2nd. You guys are right, we had what I hope was our last frost freeze last week with 2 nights in a row in the upper 20's. They were in 30gal containers so I just dug them up, potted them into 3 gal containers and brought them indoors. They showed some shock so I waited about 3 days for them to recover and planted then into my raised bed yesterday. All but 1 looks very happy. It's kind of funny since I normally plant tomatoes around April 25th. Will I get earlier tomatoes? Time will tell. The early plants are nearly triple the size of when originally planted. I will try and update when I get my first tomato. No flowering yet, but they probably would have dropped the blossoms anyway.

April 23, 2021	#16
GoDawgs Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b Posts: 1,685	I brought the tomatoes in from the front porch the past two nights. After checking my historical weather data it goes back 22 years), I'm convinced that was the last cold snap. We'll be planting them out on Sunday since tomorrow we're supposed to have rough weather. Oh boy!

April 26, 2021	#17
SteveP Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Joplin MO Posts: 1,398	Update on my planting some tomatoes on April 2nd. You guys are right, we had what I hope was our last frost freeze last week with 2 nights in a row in the upper 20's. They were in 30gal containers so I just dug them up, potted them into 3 gal containers and brought them indoors. They showed some shock so I waited about 3 days for them to recover and planted then into my raised bed yesterday. All but 1 looks very happy. It's kind of funny since I normally plant tomatoes around April 25th. Will I get earlier tomatoes? Time will tell. The early plants are nearly triple the size of when originally planted. I will try and update when I get my first tomato. No flowering yet, but they probably would have dropped the blossoms anyway.