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Tomato season is so wonderful but so brief. Before you know it, it's back to buying flavorless grocery store tomatoes. Not so fast! You can plant tomatoes 1 month early with this technique for the longest tomato harvest of your life! Grocery stores don't want you to know this trick!

Using this technique, you can harvest tomatoes 1-2 months early! Grow more food in your garden, and buy less food at the store using these tips! Remember, there is always a risk to planting tomatoes early, so always start a few extra seedlings you can afford to lose.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Growing Tomatoes In Frost And Freeze Prone Areas
1:12 How To Determine Your Last Frost Date
2:58 When To Start Seed For Tomato Plants
3:33 How To Start Early Tomato Seeds To Beat Mother Nature
5:41 How To Fertilize Tomatoes At Transplanting
7:37 How To Transplant Tomato Plants
8:48 How To Use Soluble Fertilizer Products
10:18 My Secret Cold Protection Method For Tomato Transplants
13:29 How To Protect Against A 24°F(-4.5°C) Hard Freeze Event
14:57 PROOF THIS WORKS! Growing Tomatoes In Hard Freezes!
17:42 Adventures With Dale

If you have questions about how to grow tomatoes, growing early tomatoes and protecting them from cold, want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden, are looking for gardening tips and tricks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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