What should you do with your tomato plants whose vines are taller than you are?

First of all, if this is the case, let me offer you a congratulations.

I've heard this question on and off for many years, and I really have had trouble relating in the past,

mainly because my tomatoes have been so fraught with disease that by this time of year,

they're done and I'm ripping them out because there's not much hope left in them, although there

was that one year where they ended up producing through Thanksgiving. So there was that. But

overall, a lot of us are dealing with tomato plants that are just done and

not doing very well. But if you're having the opposite problem and your tomato plants are vining

so tall that they're overgrowing their cages and you're just not really sure what to do,

then I wanted to bring this question up because it's one that I have gotten a lot

specifically Nancy emailed me and said my tomato plants are growing rapidly and are over six to

seven feet high they definitely have overgrown their cages not sure what to do next tie them up

somehow there are tons of tomatoes in the

green stage on the plants any suggestions well like I said Nancy I did congratulate

her for having so many tomatoes still doing so well the first thing that I would say

is to evaluate your growing season and when your average first frost is.

If you're wanting all of the green tomatoes

that are already on your plant to ripen up

in time for that first frost, which will kill the plant,

then you might wanna consider doing what's called

topping off of the plant.

And that's basically just cutting the central leader

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