I still have to put tomatoes in the farm lot. Got about 23 F4 plants and about 16 heirlooms, tho I'll prob still give some of the latter group away.
Turns out I was fortunate to start seedlings late this year. We apparently had a frost around April 19, which is a few days after the standard April 15 mid-TN "safe transplant" date for sensitive veggies. Although I hadn't been hardening off my seedlings yet I was recording outdoor and bale temps and definitely had 35 degree temps in the morning around that time. My backyard elephant ear plants normally survive the winter, but did not this year, so I suspected that April 19 killed them as they were starting; however I checked records and remembered that we had unusually cold low temps in Jan and Feb - below 10 degrees! and maybe that did 'em in.
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