The Colorado Front Range experienced its latest first overnight freeze last week. I'm so thankful I got to hang onto my tomato plants an extra couple of weeks. I picked about 40 mostly yellowish green tomatoes about five or six hours before the mercury dropped way below freezing. I've had them in the living room window ever since. Some are not going to turn. But more than I expected have turned, and I've been enjoying fresh tomatoes every day!
Of course, the living room window is getting only about two to three hours of sun these days. So I've been sticking the tomatoes on the dash in my car in the afternoons, hoping the heat and magnified sun will coax them into color.
Some of the darker green ones are beginning to get a little mushy. But I managed to get almost enough red for one last batch of homegrown homemade spaghetti sauce for the year.
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