Preserving the Last of the Summer Tomatoes

Your winter self will thank you

Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman of The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images

I have been growing tomatoes since I was in my early 20s. The first were planted in a crack in a sidewalk next to a fence in my back “yard” in Somerville, Massachusetts. There are a lot of things I don’t remember, but — buying seeds, using a spoon to dig up the tiny bit of soil I could find in that one-inch space, planting, watering…