I have 224 in the ground. 48 are in boxes like you see in my avatar and have been in the ground a month today. The lids are on tonight. A few have clusters of blooms which have been open for several days. The temperature got down to 28 twice during that time and all have survived but some look like 10 miles of bad road.
All of the plants were seeded at the same time and the ones not in the boxes have been enjoying the outdoors when it's nice out and the protection of a house when it's not. They had hardened off nicely and were transplanted 2 weeks ago this Wednesday. Last Friday it got down to 33 degrees and the exposed plants were undamaged as were those in the boxes. Needless to say, I'll be out at 5:30 in the morning looking for sighs of frost and will sprinkle them with water if I find any on them.
I have another group which were seeded 3 weeks after these to use as replacements but I really hope I don't need them.
I'm still hoping to get an additional 3 clusters of tomatoes to set on each plant before summer temps shut them down. Claud
