The Year Frost Increased my Harvest.

Last spring (Memorial day weekend)I slammed in a quick and Dirty Garden . 10 Tomato plants ,4 Cherry Tomato plants, 8 pepper plants , 8 cabbage . A few days later the news called for a killer frost . I slipped a mason jar over every tomato and pepper . It didn't help every tomato and pepper was sheared off at the ground . Since I planted them all deep only leaving the top row of leaves sticking out of the ground I figured a few would come back. So I went out and bought replacement tomato and pepper plants and planted them in between the corpses of the frozen plants. Well you may have guessed they all came back . I had twice as many plants planted half as close together. It wasn't great for the peppers but the Tomatoes loved it . some of the bumper crop of tomatoes still occupies my cupboards in jars mm . This summer I'm backing off on the number of tomato plants but I'm planting them 12 " center to center the second week of June