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Re: green tomatoes

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With all the conversation about green tomatoes, it got me
thinking--sometimes a dangerous habit. <grin>  This is my first autumn to
garden in a harsh climate, where frost is an inevitability.  Our first
freeze will be in about 3-4 weeks, but my tomato vines are huge and loaded
with fruit in various stages.  So, I hacked back all the stems to full size
green fruit (still leaves tons) and cut off all the small fruit, newly set
fruit and blossoms.  The hacking reduced each plant size by half.  I figure
this drastic pruning would spur the plants into ripening the fruit that
remains.  The role of every plant is to flower, fruit and set seed in order
to reproduce itself--or so the theory goes.  I hope this works.  Has anyone
else used this technique or have I destroyed the fruit that remains??
Doreen Howard
Central Illlinois--Zone 5b


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