O/T Green Tomatoes

Larry or other garden experts, seeing that post right before this I have a question for you.There is a way to ripen green tomatoes by placing them in a cooler and adding a couple of apples. Wraping them in newspapers may enter into it as well. The hort teacher and I used to ride to school together and I remember him telling that to me 35 years ago. Also how did you feeze green squash? Thanks in advance. J.

put them a brown paper bag and place in a cool dark area.

why would you wanna ruin good eating???? Fry them babies up and enjoy.......

Look at how stores have them boxed up. Then see if you can get one of those empty boxes. Most store tomato's are in fact picked green and ripen on there way to the stores and that is why they have little to no taste. Of course you can also can them and do green tomato pickles or green salsa etc

We just pick them and set them on a table in our enclosed porch, with lots of window area. We also dried our garlick out there, by simply hanging the stems from a cloths line with cloths pins. Dried onions and shell beans on old window screens set on sawhorses.
Loren The Acg

If you want anything to ripen real quick....then put it in a bag with an old bananna skin, but do keep your eye on it as it will ripen with the skin until it is rotten ripe! My Mother cling wraps tomatoes real tight and freezes them for use in soups etc during the winter/spring.
Sam

I have in the past, pulled up the entire plant and placed it in a dry spot such as an outbuilding or carport, cover if necessary to keep from chill, and they will feed off the vine for some time and many will ripen. If they don't, as someone said, have fried green tomatoes.

Yuk, I was raised on green tomatoes the way it seemed. I don't like tomatoes to this day because of it. LOL. Jim

We used to do that when I was growing up. Before there was a heavy frost, my Dad and I would dig up the whole tomato plants, roots and all, and put them in an old, unused, well insulate chicken house. We would hang the plants upside down from the ceiling, and the green tomatoes would continue to ripen. Several times we were able to have fresh, from our own garden, sliced tomatoes with Thanksgiving dinner. I think we even had them for Christmas one mild year.

The old chicken house had quite a few windows that faced South, so sometimes it would get fairly warm in there during the daytime, even in our dreary Novembers. Apparently the building was insulated well enough that it didn"t freeze in there until it got quite cold. I think that hanging the plants high off the floor helped them keep from freezing. That also made it easy to pick the tomatoes as they ripened.

This year our Spring was so cold, my tomatoes didn"t do much, and I only got a few Early Girls that turned red. Then we had a very cold night in early September (22 degrees, if my memory is correct) and we lost almost everything.

When I was in Georgia a couple of years ago, I got to try Fried Green Tomatoes. They are real good if done right. Good luck!

I think you would blanch it, like pumpkin.


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