Tomatoes Gone Wild!

Tomato Plants

Our tomato plants are showing no signs of slowing down this fall.  The vines are still green and bushy.

They have plenty of blossoms, and there are still a few tomatoes on the vines, but I think it's now too chilly for any more tomatoes to set on.   The plants don't seem to know that, though; they're looking bigger and healthier than they were this summer.

Still A Few Tomatoes

Cindy is thinking of taking a few cuttings from the plants and seeing if she can root them, and then she'd have plants ready to set out again in January or February.

Even the tomato plant in the potato bag is still going strong.   That plant was supposed to be a determinate variety, which dies back once it has produced tomatoes, but this one doesn't seem to know that.  This is the same plant that produced the luscious tomatoes the varmint got last August (see "Why We Have The Varmint Repelling Panels").

Caution, Gardener At Work

So, once these last few tomatoes ripen and are gone, we'll have to wait until it's warm enough for more to set on and ripen.  We wait for months for that to happen, then suddenly we're up to our knees in tomatoes, and then one day they're finally gone and we have to wait again.