If a minor frost is expected, you can throw towels, sheets, newspapers, etc
over plants - that's when the low might be predicted to be between 31- 35.
Anything colder than that, and you are best off picking everything and
setting all the fruit on a warm windowsill to ripen.
"Pat Kiewicz" wrote in message
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Stephen Younge said:

Hello:

I've been pulling a few pounds per week of tomatoes off of my plants.
This
is my second year growing. Last year, I didn't make any preparations for
the
first frost, and I ended up yanking green tomatoes off the vine in the
middle of a snowstorm. They were frozen, and ruined, by the time I got
them
inside.

There was probably not much you could have done (by covering your
tomatoes)
in the face of a snowstorm, except to have started picking the potentially
ripenable
sooner.

What should I do this year to ensure that I get the most out of my
tomatoes
as we lead up to the first frost? I feel like it could come at any
time...
is there any kind of hotline?

When the predicted lows get below 40 degrees, I start to check for frost
and
freeze advisories. On clear, still nights I can get frost at the bottom
of the
yard even when the actual low is 37 degrees F.

I usually check theWeather Channel online for frost and freeze advisories.
(Mind
the line wrap.)


http://www.weather.com/maps/activity...freezeadvisori
es_
large.html
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Pat in Plymouth MI (someplace.net is comcast)

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