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Old 10-05-2012, 04:56 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Frosted tomato plants

"Chris" wrote

Three hard frosts seem to have done for my outdoor tomato plants.
The leaves have turned yellow and shrivelled up.
There are a few small green leaves at the top.
The plants are about sixteen inches high.

Is it worth leaving the plants for a while, to see whether they recover?
Or should they be removed immediately, to prevent disease?
Or what?

Err, outdoor tomatoes don't go outside until all chance of frost is passed,
after Chelsea say, first week in June in most places including here. If they
still have green leaves looking OK at the top it probably was not frost as
the top would usually be the first to get frosted, and the leaves go black
in my experience.
Sounds more like wind burn.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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