You’ve spent months growing tomatoes, and now the weather forecast is threatening to undo all that hard work overnight. Your plants may still be covered with green fruit, but the first frost could arrive before those tomatoes have a chance to ripen. Should you leave everything on the vine and hope for the best, or pull the plants before cold weather moves in?
The answer depends on the condition of your tomatoes, how mature the fruit is, and just how cold your garden is expected to get. Knowing when to harvest tomatoes before frost can mean the difference between enjoying several more weeks of homegrown produce and losing your final harvest.
