Novel way of ripening green tomatoes

 

I took the kitchen waste to the green - Darlek type - compost bin on the
allotment this morning, tipped it in and stirred it around. Then I
spotted some red tomatoes. They looked healthy, not rotten or broken.
Fished on out. Perfectly ripe, ready to eat. Then it dawned on me. My
partner had got rid of all the green tomatoes from the greenhouse at the
end of October.
So now we can enjoy the last of the tomatoes, about half a kilo.
Paul.
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And sometimes,it's  the easiest way to get an avocado 'seed' to
germinate.

 



I put the last of our toms, all green, in a deep bowl on top of a kitchen
cupboard when I wanted to clear the plants from the greenhouse. They all
ripened in their own good time, and now the last are fully ripe. They're
juicy and tasty, but the skins are tougher than the earlier ones.

Steve

 



I put mine with the bananas, apparently bananas give off some sort of gas
which ripens tomatoes.

Alan

 


Thought I'd post this about tomato ripening. Just in case anyone was
unsure.

'There are many common ways to ripen your tomatoes, including using
jars,
plastic bags, cardboard boxes, kitchen drawers and paper bags, or
directly on
the vine.
The reason for most of these methods is that tomatoes naturally give
off
ethylene gas, which stimulates the ripening process. If you keep
the tomatoes in
an enclosed space this keeps the ethylene gas from
escaping and encourages the
tomato to ripen faster.

Another commonly used way to get them to ripen even faster is to use
any method
(bags, boxes, drawers etc) which keeps them enclosed and put
a ripening banana
in with them.
Bananas naturally give off lots more ethylene gas as they ripen, which
will
stimulate your tomatoes even more.'

Just in case you have a few greeny's left over you can always pickle
them. These
are great with cheese
I'll post a recipe soon.




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Hcaterpillar