Green tomatoes disappearing

[Rene Siracusa]

Don't assume that because the tomatoes are still green they are not edible. When I was a kid in upstate New York, at the end of the season, when we new that the tomatoes would not ripen before the first frost, we would pick them and prepare them in either of 2 ways: pickle them or slice/bread/fry. Even without a freeze here, if your plants are too heavy with fruit, you can pick some green and use them as above. That will take the weight off the branches and allow the plant to divert its energy to the remaining tomatoes.