That is why you will want to start them now so they will be ready to plant out of doors when the weather is nice. Everyone still asks me about starting tomato plants now. It s still too early. If you do this now, you will have tomato trees by the time you need to set them out. Besides that, they will probably be spindly and weak as well.
Tomato plants germinate rather rapidly and grow very fast.
So just try to be a little patient for a while longer. When we start tomato plants we usually start about six or more different batches, because people plant their tomato plants at different times and we, therefore, need new plants coming all the time. If you have some of your early flowering spring bulb plants poking their heads out of the ground outdoors, the only thing you do is try to cover them. I realize that there is no snow on the ground to retard the growth of these spring bulbs, but I d bet that you could find enough leaves left over from last fall to cover them with about six inches or so. This will try to keep the cold in the ground so the plants will not grow.