My lovely tomatoes were hit by a hard frost (25F) a few days ago, but now I see leaves in some of their joints where the suckers grow. Should I keep them, or replace them with plants that haven't suffered so much? If anyone has any experience with this I'd love to hear it!

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I've had plants that were black and had lost most of their foliage and most of the time they did come back as you describe.

I'd let them go, let the damaged leaves fall off naturally, don't fertilize them and keep the soil moist and I wouldn't replace them b'c the root system of the ones inground are better than those plants not set out yet.

Carolyn

I have some in my garden right now that are about 2' tall and gorgeous plants that went through 2 hard frosts to the point that there was no more than a 2" stick left. I was repotting my starts and decided rather than throw out the worst ones I would just put them in the garden way too early. BTW...the ones that I put out later are about 2 3/4' tall. I would expect the damaged ones to be a little slower for awhile but will hopefully take off.