Tomato garden

[slonezp]

I've got 5ft tall plants loaded with tomatoes and they're still green. Anything I can do to get them to turn sooner rather than later? It's going to be getting cold here in the next month and I'd like to salvage some of them.

[roadwarrior]

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Believe me, they are killer!

[A-Jay]

5 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

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Believe me, they are killer!

Beat me to it ~

A Family favorite growing up.

A-Jay

[jimmyjoe]

    https://ofags.com/how-to-ripen-green-tomatoes/

    https://www.farmersalmanac.com/ripen-green-tomatoes-home-28846

  

   I use the paper bag method. An apple helps rather than a banana.

   One year, I tried to take the plant up and hang it in the garage. It worked, but some got rotten rather than ripe. You have to decide what you consider an acceptable risk.

   Good luck!      jj

[CountryboyinDC]

We used to pick them and set them in a window that got plenty of sunlight to ripen.  Since I've learned that ethylene turns fruit ripe, probably that approach was about as well founded as water witching for a well.  I know people that tried individually wrapping tomatoes in newspaper so they wouldn't ripen.  That worked surprisingly well.  So putting then in a bag with a banana would probably work well.  You could always move south; we've got longer tomato growing seasons here.

[TnRiver46]

Eat them fried green or pick them and put in the window sill inside. They will ripen off the vine 

[Jig Man]

I used to put them on a shelf in the garage.  I could get tomatoes to ripen for weeks after frost.  Put several layers of newspapers under them because some will go bad and leak.

[Bluebasser86]

Never tried fried green tomatoes but our plants have put out so many fruit this year that I've eaten my body weight in tomatoes a couple times over, several batches of salsa, plus given dozens away, and there's still dozens on the plants along with the couple dozens ripe ones I have waiting to be used. I might have to give the fried green tomatoes a shot.

[TnRiver46]

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Never tried fried green tomatoes but our plants have put out so many fruit this year that I've eaten my body weight in tomatoes a couple times over, several batches of salsa, plus given dozens away, and there's still dozens on the plants along with the couple dozens ripe ones I have waiting to be used. I might have to give the fried green tomatoes a shot.

I’ve eaten them a million times but actually cooked them for the first time this summer. My neighbor gave me a bunch and said “fry them in a skillet like you would fish fillets, just add salt, pepper, and sugar to the cornmeal.” By golly it was delicious, and fish is the only food item I know how to cook 

[Jig Man]

I fry them in my Fry daddy as I am cooking fish.  I like them but not as well as I like fried cucumbers.

[.ghoti.]

It is best to leave them on the vine as long as possible. Using a banana to ripen them does work, but they will not be as tasty as vine ripened tomatoes. I read once, quite some time ago, the banana trick worked best if the tomatoes were not touching each other. That article recommended newspaper to keep them apart. I use a cardboard box, and place each tomato in a flat bottom coffee filter. Much easier than trying to keep them apart using newspaper. Arrange in the box with a banana. Close the box. Sealing it is not necessary. Take a peak every few days. The best bananas for this will be yellow, but still green on the ends. Bananas at that stage produce the most ethylene.

[Tim Kelly]

Ours are doing pretty well after a slow start. We always get nervous st this time of year as blight will strike at some point, but if you keep a close eye on them, trim most of the leaves off and harvest them at the first sign of blight it gives them as long as possible to ripen naturally. Any unripe ones when we finally pick them go in paper bags with bananas or ripe tomatoes. 

[VolFan]

My lab likes to eat green tomatos - she's taken out most of my crop this year. I'll send her up.

[12poundbass]

18 hours ago, Tim Kelly said:

Ours are doing pretty well after a slow start. We always get nervous st this time of year as blight will strike at some point, but if you keep a close eye on them, trim most of the leaves off and harvest them at the first sign of blight it gives them as long as possible to ripen naturally. Any unripe ones when we finally pick them go in paper bags with bananas or ripe tomatoes. 

Cherry tomatoes, those thing were like candy to me as a kid!