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

Oct 30, 2025 Last reply: 8 months ago 1 Replies

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


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.)

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