Being new to the gardening scene this past summer, I’ve had to ask a lot of questions about what to do, and when to do it. And we definitely had some success! Thanks for all your advice!
Note: because we planted our tomatoes from seeds, they were a little behind, and some didn’t get an opportunity to ripen before things got chilly. I hope this explains the creepy shrivelled yellowish-brown look they’re sporting.
Back to business: I may need ONE more piece of advice… what do I do with this huge mass of crunchy rotting tomato plant monster?! Do you just leave it and let it snow on top and decompose before spring hopefully? Or should we light it on fire? Or do we attempted to chop it out? Using what? A chainsaw?
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We compost ours, take the green tomatoes off and put in a brown paper bag with an apple , then put in a dark cool place, and they will turn red in a few days, I have also made other then fried green tom, green salsa out of them lots of recipes online that are good. Good Luck this summer, another tip make or get wooden trellises those wire cages are a pain to get the tom plant out of.
OK, I don’t know why the picture made me laugh 🙂
Definitely start a compost pile. We had quite a surprise this year when we used compost to fill a new raised garden and tomatoes grew where I had planted none. They turned out to be the best tomatoes of all!
I can’t really tell from the pic, but if any of the tomatoes are still green and firm, you can pick those and make fried green tomatoes OR you can put them in a cardboard box, cover with newspaper and keep in the dark for a while and they’ll turn red. They won’t taste as great as vine ripened but they’ll save you the cost of buying the pink mealy ones at the store.
If the frost & cold has made them a brownish green color, it’s too late to pick the green ones. Either way, just pull the whole vine out of the ground (they pull up really easy) and throw it away, compost it or whatever you do with other dead vegetation.
PS – you can also get your seeds out of one of them for next year, but I’ve never tried it so wouldn’t know what to tell you on that.
Hope this helps!