Hi! If I were you, I'd check out the local garden center (a really decent one) and see how much bigger their transplants are compared to yours. If yours are significantly smaller, then you would no doubt be better off just writing this off as a "learning experience", buying plants for this year, and not investing any more time, effort, fertilizer, water and etc. into plants that will not produce until very late in the season.

However , if there are a couple of varieties you are growing --like heirlooms -- and you really want to try them, go ahead and buy some plants, but continue on and develop these "special plants" as well and perhaps plant one or two. You will still be late getting the final product on those "special plants", but it's still fun to harvest something special and grown from seed. I just wouldn't waste a lot of effort, fertilizer and water on a plant that isn't going to produce much before frost.

But that's just my opinion. Best of luck to you and your babies! MacThayer

If your plants are 5-6 inches tall then they can be transplanted to the garden. It is well past planting time in your area so weather shouldn't be a problem.

Strip off the peat pot (do not plant with it intact) and plant them, they should pout for a couple of days and then take off.

Dave

OK, in the garden they go tomorrow, with some water and a lot of hope! And I will get some plants from the store as back-up. Hopefully if all goes well I'll just end up with twice as many tomatoes as I bargained for! (Much better than ending up with none!) Thanks for the replies!!