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   songbird to Drew Lawson   
   Re: the freeze is coming   
   08 Oct 25 19:39:02   
   
   From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   Drew Lawson wrote:   
   > In article <10c4ad4$19mfn$1@dont-email.me>   
   > 	Snag  writes:   
   >>On 10/7/2025 5:02 PM, T wrote:   
   >>> Hi All,   
   >>>   
   >>> "Saturday NightMostly clear, with a low around 29."   
   >>>   
   >>> Well all fifty of my green tomatoes will be lost.   
   >>>   
   >>> Any way to get them to ripen before then?   
   >>>   
   >>> -T   
   >>   
   >>   Pick them and leave them in a sunny window .   
   >   
   > I've heard some say it is better to cut the part of the vine(s)   
   > with fruit and bring that in.  But I don't have any experience   
   > trying that.   
      
     i've never done any experiments to know what is   
   better or not, but it works well enough without having   
   to deal with all those stems.  sometimes we've had   
   several tables set up in the garage for all of them   
   to be able to be left to ripen but this year i brought   
   most of them into the house in stages so we didn't   
   have many decent tomatoes left to worry about.  so many   
   have deep splits in them this late season (due to heat   
   and me not watering) that they've been left to be buried.   
   i didn't want to water them that much because the flavor   
   was so sweet and i didn't want to dillute it.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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