or, at least what the critters left for me 😠.
(I cut around it, generously – these are desperate times!!!)
They ate my first 2, and I put a gold mesh-y bag on this, wanting to let it ripen on the stem – they bit right through it!
Cherokee Carbon, 6b, outside Boston.
by Lori-too
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Consider harvesting once you can see the ripening process starting. It will continue to ripen just the same whether on or off the plant. Although not as romantic as “vine” ripened I prefer to ripen mine indoors where there are fewer mouths to share with and they taste just the same.
She’s a beauty! I pull everything at first blush. Tastes just as good!
Yum!!!!!
Like mine after I cut off all the bad spots, but still delicious!
Thank you, everyone, for the advice to pull in earlier.
And I have surely learned my lesson! Guess I thought the bag would protect the tomato, but probably the critters had their eye on it all along, too, and were just as desperate as I was.
And, yes I am desperate! 8 slicer plants, 2 are croaking, and the other 6 have only a few, small green tomatoes that won’t be ready any time soon. Most fruit never set at all.☹️
I’m gonna try to grow tomatoes next year in buckets or big pots, grocery store tomatoes have no flavor. I’m really tired of it and I love tomatoes. I’m gonna do it next year.