10/13/2026
Let’s talk late season tomatoes. If you were able to keep your tomato plants alive during the brutal dry heatwave, they should now be responding to the cooler weather. Keep them watered and maybe a little fertilizer that is not to nitrogen hot. Nitrogen will make them grow while right now we want them to load. Be looking for blooms, that means they are trying to load. Be aware with the cooler weather it will take longer for the tomatoes to ripen. Right before the first predicted freeze, you can pick the larger green tomatoes to ripen and the smaller ones to make chow-chow. Let’s Garden Successfully!