Returned from out of town to discover ALL my tomatoes that were nicely ripening on the plants are GONE. And we had a storm and several of the plants with flowers are bent over and broken. 
There is no sign of the tomatoes (and there were several big ones on the better boy plant). Weather? Animal? Neighbor?
@jym626 , are you my daughter?!! I’m just getting this EXACT text from my daughter this morning! - every tomato gone and the plants look trampled!
Here’s what someone at my community garden told me (or was it someone here??) - in our area we have not had rain in like 3 weeks - the animals are eating the produce AND the plants (leaves and all) in order to get some moisture - because there is no water to drink in the form of puddles or dewy grass etc!
There has been plenty of rain here. Apparently there was a bad storm when we were away, but if that knocked ALL of the tomatoes off the plant, wouldn’t there be a sign of them somewhere?
RE: missing tomatoes. Probably animals. Weather might beat down the plant but the tomatoes wouldn’t just disappear.
Deer, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, bears are all possible culprits. Also dogs. Or an envious passerby who just couldn’t resist a chance to pilfer tomatoes.
The plants are in pots on my deck .
Human pests?
I give up. The birds are not only eating all the tomatoes and peppers, but they bend/break the tomato stalks too. Bummer.
^^Sad!!!
Picked my first ruby red perfectly shaped tomato this weekend - but weirdly instead of my first tomato ripening here in NW Ohio, it occurred at my garden at our cottage on the Canadian shores of Lake Huron 200 miles north!!!
My tomatoes are LOADED. But not red yet. Except for the little sugar sweet orange ones! I pick a handful and eat them on the way home in the car!
Really bad hailstorm Friday night. Dime size hail stones that not only tore up the garden, but also caused my aging roof to leak. (Right over my formal dining table. Luckily I caught the leak before it damaged the table.)
Beans look ragged and badly damaged, but I still picked a quart, maybe 2, of beans this morning. 8 eggplants. 6 cucumbers, 2 orange bell peppers, 1 zucchini (I pulled most of squash plants out a week ago because the squash bugs were out of control) and huge bowl of tomatoes.
Looks like ratatouille will be on the menu tonight. And stir fried eggplant in garlic sauce on tomorrow’s. Eggplant parm over the weekend.
I’m almost hoping the hail has done in the beans. It’s to the point that my friends & neighbors all pre-emptively say “No more beans” when I ask if they want any veggies.
Will be freezing beans this afternoon. Bought 6 ears of corn from the corn truck and will be making green chile corn chowder to freeze also. (It’s a favorite when the weather turns nippy.) And it’s looking like it’s time to start thinking about making roasted tomato pasta sauce for the freezer.
I’ve got a bunch of paste tomatoes and picked all the ripe ones (12 pounds) to make tomato paste. It’s labor intensive, but the paste is soooo good that it’s worth the effort. Also, it goes faster if you have a good food mill. Here’s the recipe for those who might be interested: https://www.thespruceeats.com/easy-homemade-tomato-paste-recipe-2216043
That sounds amazing @Bromfield2 !
My first year with eggplants. Out if the Nth seeds I put indoors, only 3 are in the grounds and it has been about two months or at least a month and half. No fruit yet! Also I had one eggplant plant too close to a bunch of pepper plants, should I move it still?
It just started to thunder now, hoping for a soaking rain!
I’ve had an especially fruitful cucumber crop this year so I made pickles for the first time ever last weekend. Both bread & butter (sweet) pickles and garlic dill pickles. I just tried the dills today. Yowza! There are good and sooooo easy to make. I may never buy pickles again.
Refrigerator Dill Pickles–https://selfproclaimedfoodie.com/easy-refrigerator-dill-pickles/
I also thrilled the staff at my hair salon by pawning off…er…generously giving them a dozen cucumbers so they can make oh-so-trendy cucumber water for their customers.
Also made pasta sauce from the tomatoes that got damaged by the hail. About 5 quarts total so far. The recipe is similar to the tomato paste recipe, but you cook the tomato puree with onions, garlic, thyme, oregano and bay.
As @broomfield said, it helps to have a good food mill.
I want to try a pickle!!! 
Tomatoes are really coming in now - one of the varieties is SO red and SO juicy delicious! I’ve been eating them daily. Have made two batches of fresh marinara in the Instant Pot. Some is in the freezer.
Should be harvesting potatoes in the next couple of weeks!
Just harvested my first potatoes! Also my first carrots.
Still getting some beans and cukes, but (thankfully) both have slowed down.
Made more pasta sauce for the freezer and froze roasted & peeled tomatoes for winter soups & stews. Will make more dill pickles later this week.
Planted lettuce and bok choi for fall.
RE: tomatoes--- successes this year: Brandy Boy ( a pink brandywine hybrid--great flavor, huge fruit but slow to produce); Black Krim (an heirloom, fussy to grow, but taste so good); Shimmer (striped plum shaped cherry tomato-great flavor), Sun Gold (yellow cherry)
--meh Mountain Magic hybrid (cluster tomato similar to what you see in grocery stores--Ok flavor, reliable producer, but did not wow! me)
--will not grow again--Atlas (beefsteak hybrid bred for patio containers--enormous fruits, but meh flavor and tends to be mushy by the time the fruit has ripened fully); Super Sweet 100 (cherry--this the 2nd year in row that this usually reliable variety has been a big disappointment. tiny fruit not worth picking.)
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Great for lunch or a light supper with a salad. So we’ve officially given up on the tomatoes, and the green beans only produced briefly before it got too hot. The cucumbers are being fickle. Only about 3-4 good green ones so far, and a like number of bitter yellow ones. On the bright side, the okra has been as prolific as usual with only 3 plants, such that we get tired of eating it and I am about to pickle some. The jalapeno plant I planted to replace the one that froze last winter is doing great. I’ve been cooking with them and have enough to make pepper jelly now. My Tabasco peppers are coming along and are vibrant yellows, oranges and reds. Looking forward to seeing how big those will get. Happy gardening!
Our cherry tomatoes are super sweet this year; and pattypan squash is my new favorite thing from the garden.
Any ideas as to what to do with an excess of grape tomatoes? I only have one plant of that type but it is overproducing. My kids have gone back to college and the pick up for donations of excess produce to a food bank from our community garden was cancelled, so I am struggling trying to figure out what to do with them. All suggestions welcome!