You can cover them when the nights start to frost, but the upper leaves may get bit anyway. It will give the tomatoes left a little more time to ripen.
Build a greenhouse! All depends on your weather. Once it gets cold enough to frost, your season is pretty much done. Or get a grow light and grow indoors. Mine are fruiting like crazy but I am in southern CA and we are going into another heat wave, 103 or there about for the next week . . . Today it is a pleasant 80 something. Check these links out.
You can pick the green tomatoes when you're expecting a frost. The ones near the ripe size will ripen slowly--we've eaten tomatoes in December that were brought in in September. The smaller green ones are unlikely to ripen, but they make wonderful fried green tomatoes or various kinds of pickles and relishes.
I take green tomatoes off the vine, wrap them in newspaper and put them in a cool area. They ripen very slowly; I would say a month or two. It is a great way to save money. The small tomatoes I add into my chili. I can tomatoes as well but I hate to see things go to waste so this is a great way to get the last group of tomatoes from the garden.
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You can cover them when the nights start to frost, but the upper leaves may get bit anyway. It will give the tomatoes left a little more time to ripen.
Build a greenhouse! All depends on your weather. Once it gets cold enough to frost, your season is pretty much done. Or get a grow light and grow indoors. Mine are fruiting like crazy but I am in southern CA and we are going into another heat wave, 103 or there about for the next week . . . Today it is a pleasant 80 something. Check these links out.
https://newengland.com/today/living/gardening/growing-tomatoes/
https://garden.org/apps/calendar/?q=Providence%2C+RI
http://gardeningri.com/?reqp=1&reqr=pTW6YaEvLaE5pv5hLKSyLaMkYaEvLaE5pzEbqaO4MaWhMKO1o2We
Depends on your 'grow zone' - in some extreme southern areas you can grow all year ... they don't do well indoors w/o extreme environmental measures -
You can pick the green tomatoes when you're expecting a frost. The ones near the ripe size will ripen slowly--we've eaten tomatoes in December that were brought in in September. The smaller green ones are unlikely to ripen, but they make wonderful fried green tomatoes or various kinds of pickles and relishes.
I take green tomatoes off the vine, wrap them in newspaper and put them in a cool area. They ripen very slowly; I would say a month or two. It is a great way to save money. The small tomatoes I add into my chili. I can tomatoes as well but I hate to see things go to waste so this is a great way to get the last group of tomatoes from the garden.