I'm going to push this message on down with a question for all you tomato folks. Do you all do anything to keep your plants bearing on into the fall, or is that possible? I have cut mine back on plants that don't have anymore fruit, but is there anything else I should do? Fertilize, and, if so, with what? Would fish emulsion be too much nitrogen? I'm trying to keep it organic.

I don't cut mine back. As long as it flowers, it may continue to make more maters. :)

I still have red maters, green maters and flowers on my vine. Mine is a heirloom variety, my husbands aunt called them porter tomatoes.

I usually toss a few in the garden, and to be on the safe side I save a few seeds too.

Usually they just come up, and I leave them where they are or transplant them to a better spot.

Moni

I don't do anything for my tomatoes and they usually keep on producing until winter. This year has been horrible but, still, about half of them are bouncing back and will likely bear until winter. If they want to grow, they'll grow. If they don't, I bid them farewell.

Okey dokey. Thanks. I have Bradley, I think, that continue to have fruit - and the yellow pear, which I'm thinking of yanking out because they develop those awful splits before I have a chance to pick them - and they have nearly no flavor. This is my first year to plant them, and I vote thumbs down. The Bradleys and Branywines, on the other hand, have been yummy.

I've had mine produce until the first frost. All varieties. I've gotten tomatoes through the beginning of December before, without doing anything special.