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Posted by enigma on September 20, 2008, 9:18 am
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we are getting close to freezing at night now, & my tomatoes
are still quite green. i'm looking for ideas, other than
tossing sheets over them at night, to get them through to
ripening.
anyone have or seen plans for some type of temporary hoop
house structure i could build over the rows? the extra heat
from a hoop house should help speed the ripening process, i
think, besides keeping frost off at night.
lee
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Posted by John McGaw on September 20, 2008, 12:02 pm
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enigma wrote:
> we are getting close to freezing at night now, & my tomatoes
> are still quite green. i'm looking for ideas, other than
> tossing sheets over them at night, to get them through to
> ripening.
> anyone have or seen plans for some type of temporary hoop
> house structure i could build over the rows? the extra heat
> from a hoop house should help speed the ripening process, i
> think, besides keeping frost off at night.
> lee
>
There are plans and kits online available for the searching. This example:
http://westsidegardener.com/howto/hoophouse.html
could probably be scaled down quite easily to suit your purposes.
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Posted by hubops on September 20, 2008, 9:22 pm
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>we are getting close to freezing at night now, & my tomatoes
>are still quite green. i'm looking for ideas, other than
>tossing sheets over them at night, to get them through to
>ripening.
> anyone have or seen plans for some type of temporary hoop
>house structure i could build over the rows? the extra heat
>from a hoop house should help speed the ripening process, i
>think, besides keeping frost off at night.
>lee
I've not tried it - but heard that if you pull the plant out - roots
and all - and hang it upside down, indoors, the fruit will ripen just
fine.
jt
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Posted by enigma on September 20, 2008, 9:35 pm
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> I've not tried it - but heard that if you pull the plant
> out - roots
> and all - and hang it upside down, indoors, the fruit will
> ripen just fine.
that does work if the fruit is well along to ripening.
unfortunately we had a wet & chilly summer, so the tomatoes
sulked until mid-August. if this were August rather than
September, i'd be really happy with how they're doing. i just
need another warm month...
lee
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Posted by on September 21, 2008, 4:11 pm
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yup. especially cherry tomatoes. Ingrid
> I've not tried it - but heard that if you pull the plant out - roots
>and all - and hang it upside down, indoors, the fruit will ripen just
>fine.
> jt
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