my tomatoes lasted until mid novemeber last year and were still loaded with green tomatoes. Cut them all off when frost was coming and put them in cardboard boxes. Had tomatoes until i was starting more after christmas haha
Green tomatoes also have some great qualities. Of course they can be fried but they can also be roasted or grilled. We pick several every week to cut in half and grill. Outstanding flavor!
SE Virginia here. I pick mine when they show decent color. Yellow to orange, they're coming in. The birds n bugs will devastate them if I leave them to ripen on the vine.
Like the shade cloth. In South Florida we plant in the fall and start picking in January. We are done by April 15th. Too hot to grow tomatoes after that. Speckling on your tomatoes is mildew issue.
Your videos are very informative and simple to understand and follow, especially for the newbies. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us! Blessings to you and your family from Tennessee.
This is great information. This our 3rd yr growing tomatoes and this year it hasn’t been as successful as the past. We have had to pick them early and put in the windows. This method has given us a few good tomatoes. The heat and bugs have been really detrimental. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, thank you. Very helpful. Also am in East Texas. Was just out in the garden this morning looking at my tomatoes and debating whether to pick or not. Very timely and needed video. Thank you
For all your those really green tomatoes, they are great to make relish!!!! It can be any kind, sweet relish, dill relish, spicy relish, mixed with other vegetables for a relish. Also green salsa and a whole host of things ! I guess they can be pickled but I haven’t done that 🤷🏼♀️ Blessings
Gray wall is mottled or splotchy fruit check the soil and balance fertilizer. I wrap my green tomato’s in news paper and place them in a cardboard flat store them in my cool pantry. Tomato’s until Christmas.
Not sure if it works in your area.. I had bugs and slugs on my plants and I used 8 parts water to 1 part Hydrogen peroxide and a light spray takes them out without harming the plant. 👍
Green tomatoes need to have a blush shoulder to have reduced poisons that the leaves have in them. You can make fried green tomatoes when the shoulder is blushed. You can also make mincemeat pie with those tomatoes. Not the solid green tomatoes.
Texas has been a boiling pot for me. No rain, high temps, just miserable! I’ve pulled all my summer crops. Okra, peppers, sweet potatoes are all that’s left. It’s hot dry and miserable! Blessings!
It is hot but try to look at this like a blessing. You have learned what will grow in this heat. I am going to be making a video soon about the best veggies for a hot summer. I just finished a video on runner beans/cowpeas that love the heat. Melons, squash, okra, eggplant, peppers, beans, sorghum (for grain or syrup), sweet potatoes, etc. There is a lot.
Thanks for the video man. A cheap pesticide is to find someone who smokes cigarettes. Get their butts and soak them in water for 24 hours. Use a coffee filter to drain the nicotine water into a container that you can spray your plants, fruits and vegetables (it works for trees too). One bite and the bugs die of an overdose of nicotine. Then simply wash your fruits and vegetables before consumption. I’ve been using this solution for years in my garden and my small orchard
I appreciate the suggestion but I would not use that at all. Nicotine is a drug and it can leach through skin. There is no way I would put that on my plants just to keep off a few bugs.
Great comment! Yes it is effective. Using nicotine in this way is an ancient and effective form of pest control going back to Egypt. I find it interesting it was referred to it as a drug and yet folks are willing to use poisonous pesticides as if that were somehow more acceptable. 😂
I’m also in East Texas and with all these torrential rains, should I go ahead and pick green tomatoes to keep them from cracking? They are on a raised bed. I have many Romas, some Rutgers and Purple Cherokee that have green tomatoes.
Great reporting! I also grow tomatoes and like to freeze them! Any help on how to do that? By the way, this is the first year I am using shade cloth!!! Works great! I don’t have the funds to get a freeze dryer, just not in the budget. :(
You don't need to waste "leftover green tomatoes" at season end, they ripen the same as any tomato. I'm in Northern Maine and I have to pick everything in the garden the day before the first frost. Often I make at least 3 dozen cans of salsa. The tomatoes ripen just like any. You can look up how to do it.
We have ours in the window, ripening, but we're struggling with a crazy ant problem, embedding themselves in the ripening tomatoes, & they even have Xtra tough skin, from the heat I guess? Ants still get inside the tomato 💔???? Any suggestions?🤔
