re: Just picked my first fall tomato.

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Lucky you! I've tried multiple times with fall tomatoes and never had any luck

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My luck with fall tomatoes has more to do with when it finally gets cold enough to take the vines out. Then one year I had a true bumper crop of large, beautiful tomatoes that were just turning color when a big hail storm passed through and hung around for half an hour and beat all the plants to the ground, destroying all the tomatoes.

I've also had a few years where a sudden cold front passed through and I had to pick all the tomatoes still green and wound up frying plenty and making salsa verde with a lot of them, plus gave some away.

I've never had an issue with insects in the fall with my tomatoes, but they do like to eat some leafy greens like Kale, Swiss Chard and Spinach.