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chhotiiWhy do tomatoes split? Even ones that aren't ripe at all? They seem to do this when we get a metric buttload of rain, but baby duty keeps me out of the garden for such long stretches, I'm not 100% sure of the correlation. What can be done to prevent this?
When do we expect to get frost in the Boston suburbs? How much cold can tomato plants tolerate at the harvest end of the season?
Is it worthwhile to pick your homegrown tomatoes green if you don't think they will make it? Does the paper bag and banana trick work for ripening tomatoes? What if the tomatoes hadn't grown to full size yet? Isn't it the case that allowing tomatoes to ripen on the vine is one of the motivations for growing tomatoes-- that if we wanted tomatoes that were picked green, they have plenty of those at the grocery store? Any suggestions for using green tomatoes? I have heard good things about fried green tomatoes, but I should not be eating that much fat.
Overnight temperatures aren't expected to go below 50 for the next week at least. How much should I be kicking myself for panicking and picking most of the green tomatoes?
When do we expect to get frost in the Boston suburbs? How much cold can tomato plants tolerate at the harvest end of the season?
Is it worthwhile to pick your homegrown tomatoes green if you don't think they will make it? Does the paper bag and banana trick work for ripening tomatoes? What if the tomatoes hadn't grown to full size yet? Isn't it the case that allowing tomatoes to ripen on the vine is one of the motivations for growing tomatoes-- that if we wanted tomatoes that were picked green, they have plenty of those at the grocery store? Any suggestions for using green tomatoes? I have heard good things about fried green tomatoes, but I should not be eating that much fat.
Overnight temperatures aren't expected to go below 50 for the next week at least. How much should I be kicking myself for panicking and picking most of the green tomatoes?
