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Originally Posted by kath
If your forecasters are as accurate as the ones we have up here, I'd say cover if they predict 40 or lower. Better safe than sorry. Tomatoes aren't frost hardy.
Some say they have luck putting a sprinkler on them in the coldest early am hours until the sun's up.
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Personally i've never done it but my wife's grandfather who has raised 1500+ plants for most of his life uses sprinklers without any loss.
He claims as long as you wash the frost off before sunlight and keep it washed off, frost will not damage the plants. Works for him