First, look at the thread below with a title of green tomatoes won't ripen inside the house, for some more info.

No, it's too late to use a fungicide and yes, many of us have plants that have either Septoria or Early Blight, or both, or any combo of those and throw in some of the bacterial foliage diseases as well.

Starting tomorrow the weather is supposed to warm up for a few days in our area, and as long as there are no deep freezes expected I'd leave those green ones on the vine, b'c if you can get them to blush a bit it will easier to harvest them and take them inside to ripen up.

But please do read the thread I referred you to above.

Hope that helps.

Carolyn

Thanks Carolyn, I went out today and cut away most of the dying leaves. There are so few healthy leaves left that I'm worried the sun will scorch the tomatoes. I did read your advice about trying to ripen green tomatoes. I hope I don't have to pick them but the stems are starting to rot away, so I may have no choice! I'll give it a few more days and see what happens.

The angle and intensity of the sun this time of year where we live is not going to cause sunscald.

But I'm wondering what that rotting at the stem end might be unless it's radial or concentric splitting which is normal for some varieties. Usually the splits scar over but lots of rain can reopen those splits and then normal fungi and bacteria in the air can invade and cause rot.

What is the variety name of the beefstak plant you're growing?

Carolyn

Let me share a southern secret to sucessful fall harvesting. Bacon greese + skillet + fine ground corn meal + green tomato = no need to try to ripen them.

Pickle them! I had a bunch of green sweet 100's,and was tired of eating, and giving away the ripe ones. I pickled them whole and they are great.

I shared with my coworkers and friends, a mistake! LOL I had 30 pints and now I have none.

As Carolyn suggested, the rotting stems might indicate that you should bring them in. You might get frost on Friday night also. You could let the larger ones ripen on the counter top. Otherwise, you could have fried green tomatoes or pickles or make them into a relish.
John A

My tomato plant snapped, now it's dying will my tomatoes still grow, will my plant survive.

P.S It snapped at the bottom

HU - Put the snapped off part in a vase of water and it will root in a week or two. Then re-plant it.

Thank you so much cindy!

A tomato stem is basically a giant root, so you can plant it pretty deep when you do. I've actually just jammed broken branches into pots of soil and had them recover and finish growing whatever was on them until I was done with the branch so long as I kept them watered. Make sure you've got good staking/caging this next time around.