Annual 🍅 reminder! If you struggle with splitting or any number of pests before your tomato is ripe, pick them early! They taste just as good as vine ripened and here’s another little secret… your friendly local small scale organic farmer does it this way too! And since I just know I’ll get some comments about bland hothouse tomatoes that are ripened on trucks with ethylene gas - this is not that. Those varieties are bred for shipping and size consistency, not flavor, so the harvesting technique is only a part of the equation when it comes to taste. Go forth and get those beautiful tomatoes you worked so hard to grow! 🍅 #organicgarden #gardeninghacks #tomatoes #notill #nospray #earthfriendly