As I continue to harvest way more eggplant than I can use or give away, there are dozens of green tomatoes on the surviving tomato plants. These include Roma, Early Girl, one of the heat-adapted varieties, a mystery plant with oddly shaped fruit that came up on its on, and a grape tomato.
The problem is that tomatoes ripen very slowly due to the shorter days of fall. There's been very little change in the color or size of the ones above for weeks, and temperatures are dipping into the forties at night. If we wind up having freezing temperatures in December, that will be the end of them. If mild weather continues for another month, we may have fresh tomatoes on the table for our Christmas dinner.
Only time will tell.
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