i grew tomatoes on accident. what do i do?
sometime in the spring i threw some leftover aldi salad tomatoes into this gravel dirt bed in my garden, i thought they'd just sort of degrade into the soil and maybe something would grow. then a couple of weeks later i put those tomatoes in the bin because they'd gone gross and weird.
then in the summer i noticed this big plant growing with yellow flowers, I assumed it was just a weed and left it because the flowers were nice and the garden is more of a concrete yard with this gravel bed, so it needed some colour.
a week or so later i realised it had tomatoes. i also noticed it was growing out of the drain too? somehow. i didn't put any tomatoes there. i pulled out the drain tomato because i didn't think it'd stand a chance and the one in the bed i left. i didnt really
do alot with them to be honest. i would mist them with the hose, because i was scared the regular hose setting would drown it. i put the windmill in because i thought it would scare away birds, my grandma would do that so it felt like a good thing to do.
when it got really big, i put the stick in to support it. it didn't work because the plant is so heavy. i snapped some of the big leaves off to try and help it but it just keeps growing. it doesn't stop growing. why is it so big? when will it stop? when will the big tomatoes go red instead of the plant just making new plant and flowers and tomatoes? im so grateful for this plant but it is a beast.
also the drain tomato came back. i don't even know what to say about the drain tomato. i think it's mocking me by growing so well.
it's october now and I'm worried it's going to get cold and these tomatoes aren't going to go red and I'll never get to eat them. i picked some off last month and left them on a sunny windowsill because friends told me to do that, they started going red 2 days ago but they're WITHERED.
i don't know what to do, I've never grown tomatoes. i grew cress in primary school and ive had a couple of houseplants but thats my only experience. im hoping people with an understanding of tomatoes can tell me what i need to be doing next to ensure a winter of delightful soups and sauces. thank you!