Hardy to me means tough to kill and doesn't need a lot of care once planted. Hardy to me are: most beans (except Chinese Red Noodle & Chinese Green Noodle - they need temps that are higher than we could give them the past two years) Azoychka Tomatoes, Black Cherry Tomatoes, Lemon Boy Tomatoes, Marmande Tomatoes, Rutgers, Celebrity, Jet Star, Super Sweet 100's, most peppers that take under 85 days to produce, Butternut squash, Zucchini, summer squash, lettuce, broccoli, Swiss Chard, Kale, Radishes, Peas, oregano, parsley. I'm sure there's more. These have all done well in my garden, have needed minimal care, held up to disease and pests and produced well. You're right though only some of your greens and things like broccoli are going to hold up to frost.

Thank you! This was one of the major reasons I wanted to identify the plants. I'll transplant it to a separate container. I'm not sure if I should keep the plant or not, since it's poisonous, but it's already on a raised area where animals can't get to it.

Thanks for asking the question ! LOL. I really did have to laugh, but mostly at myself. I had an empty "rose hole" in a bed along the fence carved out of glacier slurry where I moved out a rose that was not doing well in that spot last year waiting for me to find the right rose to plant in that bed. I looked at it this spring and decided to grow a tomato plant in that empty hole until I found the right rose ! Yup, I have a tomato plant with it's cage growing in the midst of my roses. It's fine by me for this season....I'll have the raised bed finished for next season.... and hope I've found the right rose for next season and the tomatoes can go into the new raised bed next year. I am so looking forward to those sweet beautiful tomatoes, I don't care if it looks good as a companion plant this year ! I have labeled it my new experiment in companion plants and am still laughing. What's the use of gardening, if you can't have fun ? Smiles, Lyn PS... I do have a no-spray garden. Smiles, Lyn

"Other than transplanting, some cold vegetable seeds do not even grow well in warm temperature indoors. What I heard....." I think they may have meant some plants do not grow well in warm temperature indoors. Seeds are fairly tolerant of a wide range of temperatures but the plants, once germinated, aren't nearly as tolerant. Cool season crops that are prone to bolting in the heat of mid-summer outside will also bolt if kept indoors in warm temperatures. So things like lettuces, spinach, some herbs, other leafy greens, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. that do not tolerate outside heat will also not tolerate inside heat. Does that help. Dave