Tomatoes

Early autumn is the time to strip off ripe and unripe tomatoes from outdoor plants before they are damaged by an early frost or blight. You can also lift entire plants and hang them in the greenhouse for the remaining tomatoes to ripen under cover.

If is still good weather you can just remove the terminal shoot two leaves above a truss to allow the remaining tomatoes to develop and ripen before the first frost.

In cool climates, tomatoes will continue to ripen at the end of the season if they are cut down from their supports, leaned over horizontally on a bed of clean, dry straw and covered with cloches. The roots stay in the ground.