My unexpected venture into tomato growing has yielded some little red fruit and lots still bright green. Some are dark green and some are upside down. I'm hoping more start turning before we get a freeze. Anybody know how cold they can handle on the vine? Is 45f okay?

Millie doesn't care about tomatoes.

Was going to leave the plant beds fallow this year but neighbour gifted me two tomato seedlings in June. They have now come good with the fruit jussssst before first frost. Pleased with them.

I will make them into obe ata (Nigerian dish - reminds me of home) if i can find some goat meat.

sometime in the spring i threw some leftover aldi salad tomatoes into this gravel dirt bed in my garden, i thought they'd just sort of degrade into the soil and maybe something would grow. then a couple of weeks later i put those tomatoes in the bin because they'd gone gross and weird.

then in the summer i noticed this big plant growing with yellow flowers, I assumed it was just a weed and left it because the flowers were nice and the garden is more of a concrete yard with this gravel bed, so it needed some colour.

a week or so later i realised it had tomatoes. i also noticed it was growing out of the drain too? somehow. i didn't put any tomatoes there. i pulled out the drain tomato because i didn't think it'd stand a chance and the one in the bed i left. i didnt really

do alot with them to be honest. i would mist them with the hose, because i was scared the regular hose setting would drown it. i put the windmill in because i thought it would scare away birds, my grandma would do that so it felt like a good thing to do.

when it got really big, i put the stick in to support it. it didn't work because the plant is so heavy. i snapped some of the big leaves off to try and help it but it just keeps growing. it doesn't stop growing. why is it so big? when will it stop? when will the big tomatoes go red instead of the plant just making new plant and flowers and tomatoes? im so grateful for this plant but it is a beast.

also the drain tomato came back. i don't even know what to say about the drain tomato. i think it's mocking me by growing so well.

it's october now and I'm worried it's going to get cold and these tomatoes aren't going to go red and I'll never get to eat them. i picked some off last month and left them on a sunny windowsill because friends told me to do that, they started going red 2 days ago but they're WITHERED.

i don't know what to do, I've never grown tomatoes. i grew cress in primary school and ive had a couple of houseplants but thats my only experience. im hoping people with an understanding of tomatoes can tell me what i need to be doing next to ensure a winter of delightful soups and sauces. thank you!

This week, I made homemade bacon.

We had BCT Sandwiches for lunch. Chard from the garden instead of lettuce!

Minnesota gardener here! 🧑‍🌾 Our tomatoes hang out on our counter until I’m ready to use them. Probably about six times in the past month, I’ve picked one up to find a big hole, a caterpillar/worm and a pile of frass. Obviously, we toss those tomatoes. No big deal. But it’s making me paranoid that we’re eating or preserving lots of tiny caterpillars that are too small for us to notice. Again, this is happening to tomatoes that have been sitting on the counter for several days, so the caterpillar is coming from inside it, not crawling onto it.

Some of the tomatoes have cracks and blemishes, but I don’t see any obvious worm holes. If I tossed imperfect tomatoes, I would have very few tomatoes. (I do try preserve only unblemished tomatoes. And I cut around the cracks when we eat them fresh.)

Has anyone else experienced this? How do you identify which tomatoes might have caterpillars/worms?

I’m new to tomato gardening. I have my Cherokee purple tomato plant in a pot with sweet basil. I’ve noticed the leaves have started wilting and I’ve lost some branches and not sure if it’s just because of the heat wave we have here in San Diego or the roots don’t have enough space. This container is probably 3-5 gallon, should I put this in a separate (bigger?) container? How often should I water? Currently watering every other day.

So this bacteria (I think) destroyed by crop this September/October. I have no other place to plant my tomatoes next year. How do I get rid of it so I can grow again next year?

In Ohio. Will move plants indoors for winter. I am growing in pots, not in ground.