Picking tomatoes green

[nes]

I got pictures of my haul so you can see what I mean about them rotting.

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Most rooted on the bottom, these last sneaky guys rotted on their tops.

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Their only on my dining room temporarily since someone went to bed last night instead of bringing in my garden shelf! I guess he's sick he gets a pass for one night...

[Ozark Lady]

As frost date approaches, I only pick the ones showing color... what if?

Well, 2009 "what if" worked really well for me...
Instead of rushing to pick every single tomato...
I waited. And waited, and we picked and ate for supper.
Then, on Thanksgiving Day, the forecast was updated to a week of freezing.
I had not covered the tomatoes or peppers, the peppers had some severely frost damaged leaves, but the peppers were fine.
I finally brought them all in.
My wait and see, what if game gave me an extra month.
We ate alot of them as fried green tomatoes.
Not elaborately done like posted above..
Just slice, then dip in flour with salt and pepper and fry in oil till nice color and eat.
But some of them still rotted before we could get them all used up.
Oh well, "what if" still paid off for me.