WOOHOO, I Have Tomatoes

You should be able to eat them pretty soon. You can even bring them in the house when they are green, but I usually waited until there was at least a little spot of red on them. You should have more than you can keep up with pretty soon!

Crossing finger for you to get one! congrats on the 2

Maybe you can keep a sheet on them at night and get a few off of it. Hopefully you get some before it gets too cold. Ours just started coming on good, but are turning while they are still pretty small.

Crossing fingers, what is your general first hard freeze. Ours is Oct 8, I believe. If a light frost is coming, cover them with sheets. In case of a hard frost pick the tomatoes, rinse them in a 1:10 bleach and water solution, and put them on the counter with apples or bananas and they will ripen. Not as good as right off the vine, but better than letting them die.

Taller than you ? WOW! Who says you don't have a green thumb eh? Good job antiquelady! Lets just pretend we're neighbors, what menu would you cook for me with your harvested tomatoes? Christmas seems awesome for you, harvesting your own tomatoes ! This is a good start for more! What say you ? Keep up !

Hi Jo!!! I have a granddaughter! I came to this interest to tell all of you about Sofía´s birth but saw your post and decided to answer you first. I´m so happy you got your tomatoes! I know what you mean: even one will be enough. If the wheather changes, you can cover it with a tranparent plastic at fisrt. and don´t forget that green tomatos can be eaten in many ways! A BIG HUG TO THE GARDENER!!!

Here you thought you had a brown thumb. As long as they have plenty of water and sunlight, you will have juicy tomatoes soon. Tomatoes are a pain in the butt to grow. They are one of the first plants my dad gets growing inside before it's time to plant them. Make sure you take pictures of your tomatoes. I know I don't have a brown thumb. I probably couldn't get tomatoes to grow that comes in that bucket looking thing that hangs upside down. Even though I grew up in the country, I don't have a country way of life in my body. I honestly don't like to eat half of what is grown in a garden.

lol...I share in your excitement because I too have a brown or black thumb when it comes to growing things or keeping plants alive. I was so proud when I finally had plants doing well and getting bigger, yes they got bigger! I do hope you will be able to enjoy your tomatoes and get to eat many of them.

You could snip off some of the leaves and any new blossoms that might appear, so that the plant's energy will go into the tomatoes it has set now. Also, you could protect the plants at night with blankets or plastic.

fingers crossed for you and thumbs up of course. but I have only just started harvesting tomatoes , some of the smaller ones were ready a while back, but the bigger ones are now coming in to their own. be patient dear friend !!

I know the anticipation and then the devastation of losing my tomatoes. I once lost over 200 plants to blight! This year I bought my seeds at the £ store ($ store equivalent) and they have all come up beautifully and are ripening like mad. A kind of blush pink rather than red but sweet and delicious. Good luck with yours.

Hey there ANTIQUELADY As you know I am not very green fingered myself but I aslo had tomato plants this year. The plants started to die apparantly I should have fed them plant food what do I know? lol anyway I picked the tomatoes that did grow, even though they were not ripe, and put them on the window sil in my kitchen. Within a week they had turned red so I popped them in the fridge. I would advise you to do the same once they are the size you want and keep an eye on the weather!!

Well I am glad that you finally got some tomatoes...maybe they were just late bloomers...lol. I remember when I lived up north, if they were calling for a frost, my grandmother would pick the remaining tomatoes and bring them inside and wrap them in newspaper for a few days up to a week and they would get ripe. My mother puts them on a plate inside near the window and that turns them as well. Now while the rest of us are eating those yucky pink tomatoes in the late fall, you will have nice ripe tomatoes!! LOL I hope you have a super weekend Jo!!

Wow, that is great news! The good thing with tomatoes is that the plants grow by themselves with no help form us. We always get them growing up out of the garden after the compost has been mixed into it. We had a huge pumpkin plant sprout the same way and it took over half of our back yard. (with no pumpkins sadly though) The pumpkins would grow to the size of a tennis ball at the most and then shrivel up and die. Sometimes it is best to prune these types of plants like tomatoes, pumpkins and watermelons when they start to fruit so that they can put their energy into the fruit instead of reaching out further and growing new buds. This is what we should have done with our pumpkin.

we planted tomatoes late this year and for some reason they are not turning red yet.

If those tomatoes have gotten big but are still green when frost is predicted, pick them, wrap them in newspaper and stick them under the bed or in a closet. They will be ripe in a couple of weeks. They'll probably taste more like store bought tomatoes than vine ripened ones, but you'll have tomatoes.

is it possible to put them in near a warm window before it frosts? maybe next year, start them earlier. i dont know. hope you get some off them.

Whoo hoo! I knew you would get your tomatoes. I am so happy for you...you are now no longer in the brown thumb group! There is nothing wrong with fresh tomatoes with Christmas dinner.

I made a rase bed and had lots of tomatoes to it not as much work to grow my tomatoes and the good thing is no weeds.

you sure will do pick the perfect ripen tomato next time. its not so hard to get a big one, considering the place where you plant it. my experience with tomato goes all the way down, its a good thing i remeber the cherry tomato i planted and soon the fruits are ready i pick the bowlfull and wash it and prepared my tomato and leuce with cocumber and crisp and eat with thousand island sauce.