"...in short-season climates, you can tend them all summer only to have them not quite ripen before the first frost."
Only if you aren't smart enough to choose tomatoes that can be grown in short-season climates. DUH!
Only if you aren't smart enough to choose tomatoes that can be grown in short-season climates. DUH! ROFL!!!!!!! I had the EXACT same reaction.
I always put in lots of "early" ones as well as regular ones.