Our Late December Tomato

Our tomato plants really didn't do very well until it got quite a bit colder.  Fortunately the freeze held off until we had a few tomatoes on the vine.  This is the best of them.  We still had to pick it green but as you can see it's turning color nicely.

We talked with one of our friends about tomatoes and how you can pick them green if you need to and let them ripen off the vine.  He told us about when he was little and his family had a garden.  They would have a ton of tomato plants and have to pick many of them green before the frost hit.  They would then stick the green tomatoes under their beds until they turned red.  Then they would go sell the red ones at the markets in the winter.  Some of the tomatoes would take weeks to turn.  This guy actually took a couple weeks as well before it got to this state.  Still waiting a little longer for a better color but I'm hopeful.