Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Here in Zone 5 we had a very early cold snap last year, well at least for us. I had about 20 plants I'd put in super late and had only picked 4 reds at the time.
In a desperate attempt to try and save the bushels of green tomatoes I tossed some spare thick white plastic...just like the greenhouse type over the rows, added my rocks to hold down and removed every morning for 2-3 weeks til we had a hard freeze.
I then gathered my greens and put them in long strips of panty hose (don't laugh, this works) w/clothes pins between each tomato. I hung 20 something of them in the pantry and checked them a couple times a week for reds. Some molded, most didn't...we ate tomatoes til March.
PS: They were something with "Girl" in the title so they weren't a special arctic sort of tomato and FYI...the later they ripen from the pantry...the less taste they have

--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, "Heather" <hnaba1981@...> wrote:
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> I read about a tomato plant that you can put in the garden very late and will allow you to still harvest tomatoes into October and//or November. Anyone heard of them? Or had any luck with varieties that will tolerate some frost?
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