I had to pull everything from the garden due to recent frosts (I covered them for a night, but got worried as the next night's temp was even lower), and now I have a glut of ripe tomatoes/green tomatoes/plants that I plan to can.
I have a couple of questions:
-I've heard that washing the fruit and then rinsing with vinegar will deter fruit flies, as I may need to leave them out for a couple of days. Has anyone tried this?
-I dug up a few plants, in hopes of ripening more tomatoes on the vine (and because digging up the plant was way less time consuming than picking!). I've read that I should hang the plants upside down somewhere cool, does anyone have experience doing this? If so, what do you hang them from? And with what? Rope, twine? The plants are fairly heavy, so I'm not sure how this is going to go. Think it would work for peppers too?

Any advice is very much appreciated! Thanks!

We do hang pepper plants. In fact, DH is hanging some Thai peppers as I write. But we hang them in the shop where they dry. We're not keeping them for fresh eating. That would require freezing.

Carol

As to hanging the plants - it depends on where you have to hang them. We have a barn so it is easy to just tie clothesline/rope around the base of the plant stem and suspend it from the rafters. Works quite well. A basement would work too as long as you can get it off the floor.

Dave

I don't have a basement, but I do have a slightly chilly spare room, which is keeping the flies away for now. I am planning to cut a hole in a burlap bag and wrap around the rest of the plants and hang them from hooks. We'll see how this McGuyver method turns out!