This morning I woke up to a terrible deed. 5 fully ripened tomatos were snatched from the vine, crushed and dumped on the grass besides the garden. Words does no justice to the rage that one feels inside at such waste. Only someone who doesn't realize the pains of producing food would destroy another man's crops so carelessly. I know that I'm being irrationally mad here, but one really can't help it. This could be the work of children from this neighborhood. In anycase, this incident along with frost warnings for early next week prompted an emergency action on my part. Every large tomato on the vine whether ripened or green has been harvested. The 7 ripened tomatos are going in the freezer and the 30 some green ones are going to be wrapped in newspaper and ripened in the safety of the garage. I left more than a dozen small green tomatos on the vine. These fruits are probably too small to notice, let alone be worth destroying. Next week, the entire tomato plant will be mulched and it's plot of ground planted with more winter kale.
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Try this tip for the tomatoes on the vine. Lay the plant down (remove the cage or stake) and enclose in a cloche. A few more fruits will continue to ripen, albeit slowly
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