Obviously, a person who thinks and acts with deliberation - just look at those tomatoes!

(I hope you have foam rubber under 'em. ;o)

Steve's digits

I have thick carpet under them, Digit. I learned that lesson the hard way the first year I hung them.

Skybird

Funny!

That looks great Skybird. You'll be enjoying tomatoes for a while!

I have lots of green tomatoes all along the kitchen window ledge that are ripening and it's nice to just grab them when I need them but as they dwindle, I'm sad to see them go.

I don't think I'll do store bought this winter (I'm saying for the moment.) Besides all of the puree I froze, I dried lots of tomatoes and froze them in baggies as well tons of whole raw cherry maters. I also made tomato pesto this afternoon and froze in ice cube trays. So we'll see how long the tomato season can extend for our family without resorting to store bought :)

Charlene

Put some of the green ones in the dark, Charlene. They'll ripen more slowly so you'll still have a few longer. Last winter I had them well into January---but I started with more green ones than I have this year. And if you get to where you're absolutely dying for a fresh one when yours are gone, buy the cherry ones in the store---the ones that come in a bag, can't remember what they're called right now, are usually surprisingly good. The big ones aren't worth the time or effort---and definitely aren't worth the money.

Skybird

Well, here's me, kicking myself for not "harvesting" all of my tomato vines and hanging them in the garage. I wasn't sure if this would work, so when a branch got broken off about a month ago, I hung it in the garage. The tomatos (my black ones) were awfully green and kind smallish. Time went by and nothing seemed to be happening, so I'd about given up on them. But then last night when I got home from vacation and happened out into the garage, there they were all ripe and ready to eat!!

I brought in several promising looking fruit before I left (we hadn't had a freeze yet)to ripen in a box. When I got home, the freeze had happened and Steve hadn't covered the plants. But surprisingly, while the foliage was affected on the Black plant, many of the tomatoes still looked fine. So I harvested those today. I suppose this has something to do with the Russian heritage, as the Bush Celebrity tomatoes on the plant right next to it were all mushy.

Surprise, I finally pulled my poor sad little tomato plants out of the yard and found three little cherry tomatoes starting to turn red and a little green Early Girl, all undamaged, surrounded by the icky mushy frost damaged ones that I had missed.

I LOVE your hang-em high harvest! Someone told me long ago that when you do a "post-frost/freeze" harvesting, to remove each tom w/ a bit of stem, then wrap them individually before putting in a box in a dark cool place. Worked great for us last year. Not half as many to work w/ this year/sadly.