One to two weeks of temperatures below 50 degrees F. is enough to damage the plants. To prevent your gourds from rotting, wipe the fruits with a solution of water and bleach at a 10 to 1 ratio. When drying gourds, it is best to store them in a warm, dry location and make sure they are not touching each other. Harvesting Tips-Tomatoes will taste best if harvested when the fruits are mature and red on the vine. With this in mind, determinate tomatoes tend to be harvested at one time, while the indeterminate types can be harvested over a longer period.
Tomato plants are frost sensitive.
If there are several unripe fruits on your tomato plants and a frost is forecasted, one option is to pull your plants out of the ground, take them inside, and hang them upside down so they will ripen indoors. Processed tomatoes freeze very well.