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  • freezing weather and the tomato plant survived?????

    From T@T@invalid.invalid to rec.gardens.edible on Thu Oct 30 06:24:17 2025
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    Hi All,

    About two weeks ago, we had two days at 29F.
    It really, really messed up my tomato plant.
    Good thing I picked all my green tomatoes
    before the freeze.

    The plant look as dead as it gets. Now I
    am use to growing cherry tomatoes, but this
    year I decided to go big as picking cherry
    tomatoes has gotten to difficult on my back.

    My big tomato plant looked just like my cherry
    tomato plants of years before after a freeze.
    Totally pathetic.

    But, the plant actually recovered and has new
    tomatoes on it! And another bad freeze two
    days ago. Plant again looked pathetic. Plant
    recovered again. Picked two nice ones today.

    What the heck? I did not think this was
    even possible.

    -T

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  • From drew@drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) to rec.gardens.edible on Thu Oct 30 21:29:17 2025
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    In article <10dvou3$3mugq$1@dont-email.me>
    T <T@invalid.invalid> writes:

    What the heck? I did not think this was
    even possible.

    Tomatoes are mystical beings, full of surprises.

    Their ancestral roots (heh, heh) are from the Andes Mountains.
    Every now and then, they lean on that. Young leaves may be toast,
    but un-expanded buds sometimes will survive.

    Just don't bet on it.

    We've had a few frosts (no freezes yet), and my failed garden's
    tomatoes are still keeping the deer happy. (Better fence next
    spring.)
    --
    Drew Lawson | "Look! A big distracting thing!"
    | -- Crow T. Robot.
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