Garden Tomatoes in December
Santa Cow wants to show you our tomatoes!
Remember my big box of green tomatoes? Well, we’re still eating them! But we’re down to the very last ones to ripen. They’ve kept quite nicely in the garage all this time!
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we had ours ripening in a brown paper bag on our counter and ate the last one late last week. it’s kind of sad that we don’t have tomatoes anymore, but it is december, so I guess I should be happy we had tomatoes from our garden for so long!
Yeah, its kind of sad now that the homegrown tomatoes are truly going to be over until summer. We’ll just have to savor these last ones!
Our first frost hit yesterday, so we were eating tomatoes ripe from the garden until then. We got the green ones picked in time, though, so we should be good.
It’s actually snowing now, though, and it never snows here. I’m wishing I had bought burlap for my citrus . . .
You’re one of the lucky ones with a nice and long growing season! Can you basically grow year round or does it get a little too cold eventually? I’m so jealous of your citrus! That would be a dream!
W can grow things like chard year-round. That frost was a month late, though, but they have been known to come that late.
The trouble is the summer; plants die and stop producing in the heat. Tomatoes won’t produce above 90, and more than 150 days are above 90 here; many are up to 126! Weeding is difficult then, when it’s 105 at 5 am.
Oh, and we can plant tomato plants again in February, after Valentine’s Day.
Wow! 126 is a little too hot for me! Yikes! But then again, when I lived in St George I decided anything above 100 feels about the same to me–HOT!!!
But even though the summer is hot, it sure is nice that you can grow some things year round–like your chard! I think that’s pretty cool!