The best use of this method is when the first frost will be there within 30
days and they are still green. It will allow you to salvage some before the
frost hits.
Dwayne
"Frankhartx" wrote in message
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From: (---Pete---)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens.edi
you can make your tomatoes ripen faster if you do "root pruning"
when the tomatoes are green. Root pruning is where you take your
spade shovel and cut into the earth in a half circular pattern about
Supposedly, this cuts into the root system
and triggers the plant to ripen the
Even if it works I don't like the idea of possible lessening of furure
harvests. by damaging the root system, even though the system goes pretty
deep.