Tonight its suppose to get to 44 degrees will me plants be ok? The rest of the night for the week will be in the 50's-60's.
I have some green tomatoes on there now, will they turn red if I put them in the window after picking them off?
I heard that you can freeze the plant and reuse it for the next summer, is that true? How do I do that? Do I save just the roots???
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!
2007-09-15 13:33:31 · 6 answers · asked by Sunshine 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Ok here's what you can do only a few times to keep the plants going a bit longer. Take some plastic, (those cheap drop sheets are good.) Place over the plants, (the stakes will hold it up.) Put rocks or something heavy all along the bottom of the plastic, a couple of inches away from the base of the plant. Make certain the plastic is fully held down. This creates a "tent" for the plant for the night against the cold. Green tomatoes will turn red, but for best results, they should be a very light green, on their way to red. There are many recipes for green tomatoes too!
As for freezing the plants, I've been growing tomatoes for many years and this is the first time I've heard that one! I wouldn't try it.
2007-09-15 13:43:44 · answer #1 · answered by shire_maid 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They'll be okay at 44 degees. Later, pick those tomatoes when they first start to blush a little pink and then set them in the window. They will do fine and ripen nicely. In the past when the freezing weather got to 32 degrees, I picked the green ones, wrapped them in newspaper, and kept them inside. In about three weeks, they were ripe and ready! I've never had any luck with re using a tomato plant.
2007-09-15 13:44:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
you could pull them up and toss them. In January you could plant new ones. If this actual tomato plant became into useful on your atmosphere, you're able to use the seeds from one among its tomatoes to commence new plant life. If no longer, this is extremely helpful to to objective yet another kind this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, or greater useful yet 2 or 3 types. commence them indoors in pots on acceptable of your refrigerator. while they have their first 2 seed leaves, circulate the pots to a sunny south window or circulate them from an east (morning) window to a west (afternoon) window. in case you decide on, you could take them exterior for some hours on days while the temperature is above fifty 5. after all threat of frost is over, transplant them deep interior the soil, so as that in the time of basic terms 5 or 7 leaves are above the soil. Your plant life can now stay exterior night and day. The stem below the soil will advance roots alongside it, the greater useful to feed this thirsty plant. Enjoys the culmination of your care
2016-11-14 13:20:56 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
44 degrees will not harm your tomato plants. If you pick the tomatoes when they are completely green they will not ripen well. I have been growing tomatoes for years and have never heard of freezing the plants. That would be interesting.
2007-09-15 13:44:38 · answer #4 · answered by renpen 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
44 degrees will not kill your plant,.....but as for the idea of freezing your plant and planting it next year, freezing the plant would kill the plant, tomatoe plants only live one season,.....
2007-09-15 14:05:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Should be, but you can cover them with blankets, sheets, towels, newspaper -- anything but plastic -- if you're worried.
If you pick your tomatoes, they'll redden, but they won't be ripe. Leave them on as long as possible.
Untrue to the freezing.
2007-09-15 13:52:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋