Tomato Vines and Wreaths

Part of my summer fun was attempting a garden.  Other than managing to kill a dill plant, a cilantro plant, 5 things that were supposed to be french style beans, 5 lettuce plants, and 30 some promising cilantro sprouts, I had WILD success with a tomato plant

The plant first came to me at less than two inches tall.  This picture doesn't really show it, but it comes up to my shoulders as is, and is only limited to that height because I had to start weaving the new growth around itself at that level to keep the weight from breaking the vines several feet lower.  Before I started to do that, the plant was over 7 feet tall.

Don't they just look so tasty!

I've found that I want to decorate some room in my house with all of the colors on the spectrum of a growing tomato.  Dale has gotten a little jealous of how much time and care I've given to this tomato vine of mine, but I say he's just lucky I didn't name it and bring it into the house!

I've gotten about 5 bright orange cherry tomatoes per day (this variety is ripe at orange) since July.  As Utah fall usually does, we've had two days of snow in the week before Halloween, and my sweet little plant didn't survive it.

I picked all of the remaining tomatoes to ripen on the counter,

Then stripped the vines of their soggy leaves and made this:

I'm not sure what I think of it.  One year my mom cut vines off of our concord grape plant and told all of us to make wreaths for our teachers as holiday gifts.  That's where I got the idea to not completely get rid of my porch garden buddy quite yet.  I am going to keep it up, but the question is: for how long?  If it is just creepy, then I'll probably take it down between Halloween and Thanksgiving.  If it is received as awesome and neutral enough then I will keep it around and dress it up for each of the holidays until the week after New Year's.  I don't think it is quite the feel I'm going for for Valentine's day.

Let me know!