I can’t stand it. When I have a nearly perfect organic Tomato in the garden, I face a dilemma.
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Solanum lycopersicum ‘Better Boy’
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Pick it when it’s fully grown, but still green? Or leave it in the garden to potentially be ruined by squirrels or spoiled by blossom-end rot, late blight, or wilt?
Will the rabbit fence and overarching branches protect it from damage?
It's a Better Boy hybrid and resistant to many diseases. But it’s so beautiful and nearly perfect now.
Pick it and have fried green tomato! :)
ReplyDeleteThe season we have been having with tomatoes, I picked all the almost ripe ones. They are sweetening up on the window sill.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed a dilemma I once faced too. Such a crying shame to pick them green but it will be such a waste if you leave it be! Try putting a small paperbag over it to protect from those elements..
ReplyDeleteHmmm.... I like Holleygarden's idea but there's always the possibility that it will ripen on the vine and be just fine. I have several that look like yours and I check on them every day. There's something wonderful about pulling a ruby red tomato warm off the vine.
ReplyDeleteI always pick my tomatoes at first blush to encourage more blooms for more fruit. I place them all on a tray in a window to ripen in the sun. They all do just fine...good luck!
ReplyDeleteThink I'd be tempted to let it ripen!
ReplyDeleteWow, tomatoes to pick and a happy dilemma to ponder over.
ReplyDeleteI'd pick some and leave some. Good to know it is performing so well. I may need to try this variety. Mine this year did not do well.
ReplyDelete@Holley: Good idea!
ReplyDelete@Donna: Mine seem to be healthy, too, but it's always so hard to wait until the end.
@P3: Thanks for the suggestion. I think I'll leave most of them on the vine, but...
@TS: Yes, I agree. Nothing like it! And sandwiched between bacon and lettuce and mayo--incredible!
@Sage: I'll have to try that next year. Thanks! I usually just leave them on the vine to ripen.
ReplyDelete@Bridget: Yes, it's tempting either way!
@Autumn Belle: Indeed, a nice dilemma. Yummy, too. :)
@Donna: I think I will try your advice. Yes, Better Boys usually perform well for me. And they're nicely formed, big, juicy and delicious!
I love that green tomato. Perfectly captured specially the first one. Just wait until it will be good for harvest with the hope that nothing will ever ruin it.
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