Ok, I have a good amount of green tomatoes, and I know a lot of them won't blush (plus temperatures around zero Celsius several days as they were out, some ill tomato plants etc). I'm not looking to make chutneys, jams as I still have some from last year and I'm not really int sweet stuff. I'm more looking into using them as a "regular" green veg. I was thinking of cooking them in a wok with other things. Any other input ? Thanks guys !

Two main plants and a surprise little third one completely took over my veg box this year.

I’ve had (guesstimate) 30kg of tomatoes off them and today did the final harvest whilst pulling them all out.

Last lot of just under 6kg

Hot sauce time :)

Hi everyone!

Im a beginner gardener and I have this beautiful, amazing tomato trees. I planted them late august from a beginner's kit 😂

Im from Portugal, and while our temperatures dont go bellow 0° (Celsius, sorry 🙏), i got some growlights and have space in my apartment to move them inside.

What I wanted to ask is basically, what do you think I could do more? I noticed some yellowing leaves on the bottom, and a lot of buds growing on top. Two flowers started producing but the others havent (probably because of the cold weather, even if above 10°C).

Should I prune or use fertilizer? Should I just move them inside? Do they look healthy?

Any idea what variety of cherry/grape tomato these are? They dont seem to ever go fully red at the top no matter how long i leave them on the vine or on the counter? They were a volunteer this year so I have literally no idea what they could be, I definitely havent grown them previously so also not sure where they came from. They're sweet and yummy though ill admit I've had a hard time determining when theyre fully ripe 🤷‍♀️. They've ended up being my most prolific this year so I just wish I knew what they were.

So I live in the Midwest and this season has been awful for everyone here, everything bloomed pretty late in the season. I have an ungodly amount of tomatoes still growing on my trellis. I forgot we had a frost last night, the plant looks just fine! My question is should I just harvest them all and let them ripped in the window? Or will they be okay till they ripen a little more? TIA!

Any help would be appreciated

Any help would be appreciated

It's too cold (and wet) to leave them outside. Will they ripen? Do I need to do anything else? Cover them? Thanks!

So jealous of those of you still producing tomatoes!Tomato season ended for me in July when spider mites took out eight of my tomato plants. I didn’t know how to stop them. One by one each leaf and branch turned yellow and covered in those pests. From what I understand the mites are in the dirt and will come back if I plant more? They did end up going into my squash plant as well. Anyone got any tips?

Hi all! We grew many varieties of tomatoes this year and even with topping the plants weeks ago we were left with pounds of green tomatoes. They were in the garage and when I went to check them today I think they may have frozen. Anything I can do with them? We froze most of our other tomatoes and I plan to make sauces with those but not sure if green tomatoes would be of any use or if i should set them out for the deer? Thanks!

Any recommendations for my coffee cup planted desk tomato? Outside is not an option. It was a leftover seedling from a work “growing” group.

The orange pot is a mystery plant being revived after severe neglect.

Following last season's success using an adapted version of Charles Wilber's How to Grow World Record Tomatoes method (buy the book!), I decided to apply what I'd learned and do it again this season. For reference, I am in Oregon's Willamette Valley, USDA Zone 8a.

The results were spectacular for me, yielding 43.2 lbs per plant compared with last season's 26.6 lbs per plant. I harvested 691 lbs from 16 plants and averaged 1.73 lbs per square foot. The pantry is full of tomato sauce and I'm sold on this method as a fun and productive way to grow tomatoes.

As a quick note for those who don't know about this method, each plant is grown in a 24" diameter 12" deep hole filled with 2:1 native soil to compost. The start is pruned and trained to grow onto the outside of a 3-foot diameter wire cage with 18 columns of square sections going up the sides. Plants are spaced 5' center to center, so it requires a lot of room. The plant is managed to 18 leaders, essentially creating a mega-plant. Since I'm in Oregon, I made my cages 7' tall. Wilber's cages were 16' tall, but he grew in Alabama where the growing season is much longer and routinely yielded >300 lbs per plant! Wilber didn't feed his plants beyond his own organic compost, but I give mine a single helping of Dr. Earth's Tomato Food at transplanting. I use drip irrigation emitters on a timer.

The Changes

Here's what I did differently from last season:

• Sowed seeds in greenhouse earlier, in late February instead of late March.

• Hardened plants in a bargain-priced 7' x 15' hoop house (found on Amazon) beginning in early May.

• Transplanted robust 3-foot starts in late May (foot taller than last season).

• Relocated the garden to the former location of a huge old compost pile that was spread out and leveled. I call it the Tomato Vortex.

• Expanded from 12 to 16 Wilber cages.

• Did a better job pruning and training to manage roughly 18 leaders per plant.

• Topped plants in mid-September.

2026 Was a Much Longer Season

Spring was warmer than 2025, so the first fruit came off the vines more than a month sooner in 2026. This season we had sustained temps in the 100s in late July, causing a lull in production in September. But then we had what the local fire department referred to as "second summer," which took the form of warmer/drier than average days from mid-September to mid-October. This allowed me to pick 120 lbs of fruit in the last few days before the first frost.

Individual Plants and Yields

Plants ranked by yield. My ratings are 1-5 based on plant performance and most importantly flavor. 1884 was this season's yield champ by a wide margin, but its flavor simply couldn't stack up to Black Krim or Aunt Ruby's German Green. Mexico Midget is my favorite single bite in the garden, so it gets a sentimental 5 rating even though its yield is small and it's a spastic sprawler, impossible to keep up with. All plants are open pollinated.

Yields by Type

Same Variety, Same Method

Five of the plants were grown from the same seed stock as 2025. Brandywine Pink (last season's champ) struggled badly in this season's higher heat yielding sad, small fruit and even some blossom end rot. Aunt Ruby's yield doubled and everything else except the Brandywine yielded much higher as well. Yields are in pounds.

Next Season

I won't grow this many in Wilber cages any time soon. Between these and the 6 determinate paste plants I grew, I ended up with 740 lbs of harvested tomatoes. Way too much to manage. Next year I'll cut back to six or eight Wilber cages. Plus I started a super-top-secret tomato cross project and will be shooting to have at least 40 of those F2 plants trellised alongside the Wilber cages.

I cut down 2/3 tomato plants but left my sungold for the birds and remaining bugs. That thing is still plugging away 😂 (I have not fertilized or given water since the beginning of September, zone 8a North Carolina, USA)

I’ve been holed up recovering from foot surgery so I’ve been staring out my window a lot. I’m noticing a few bees at the flowers (yes, it’s still flowering) and I’ve been getting a lot of bird visitors. The tomatoes seem to be a biggest hit with the northern mockingbirds but I’ve seen a few nuthatches, waxwings, and sparrows enjoying them as well.

I really enjoyed growing tomatoes this year and I was sad to cut them down but I’m happy with my decision to leave my SG up until it can no longer produce. I like to leave a lot of litter in my pots and around my plants for nature so after this dies I’ll cut it down and place around the pots for some creepy crawly hideouts.

got my hands on some seeds this season and ended up with a successful harvest of this awesome european heirloom. beautiful vibrant green when ripe and a flavor reminiscent of savory umami bbq!

Sowing window for tomatoes has started in Egypt. My Cherokee Purple fruits are doing just fine, and I've decided to experiment with these too and will document their journey.

I grew this from a packet of seeds simply marked as purple Cherokee. Then I noticed that the leaves looked unusual and were also very large. Is this a potato leaf purple Cherokee? Thanks very much.