You can wash and slice cherry tomatoes and freeze them for adding to dishes later if you get an abundance of them. Hang in there, I started only my second garden ever, I searched it out like crazy every bit of soil, compost, fertilizers, learned so much about tomatoes if you put a tums which is just calcium under your tomato plants when you plant them, it gives them a great boost, also tomatoes use vibration to grow, like the buzzing of the bees, or the wind blowing! Getting laid off can be devastating, hang in there!