Green tomatoes, how to rippen using apples.

I know this can be done but it has been 20 years since I was told how to do it. Anyone know? Thanks in advance. J.

I've been told you can wrap green tomatoes in news paper & they will ripen. Gerald

Why would anyone want to ripen perfectly good green tomatoes??????????
Fry them babies up and enjoy.......

Apples and bananas put out a gas that speeds up ripening of fruit and tomatoes. Otherwise green tomatoes keep well and ripen slowly wrapped in newspapers and kept just a little bit cool, no where near as cool as a refrigerator. Maybe 60 or 65 F. You do need to unwrap and check the tomatoes every other day and then wrap them again to catch the ones ripening.

Gerald J.

Learned more from others on this issue ,today ,, Years ago because of a similar condition . My Dad told Me how my Great granpa who Grew truck crops his entire life dealt with frozen fruit , Got hit 3 yrs in a row with a early frost in the 1930s ... the nite before the FREEZE they got all the help they could muster , Granpa took a lay off plow and made a trench between the rows , they picked all the potential nice tomatoes and laid them in the trench , Then Come by with lantern lite and covered the trench with plenty of straw , there they ripened slow ,and granpa was Blessed with a dryer than normal fall , Great Granpa had plenty good tomatoes to sell past Thanksgiving when others were gone to mush ..

They ripen them by using gas but if only a few sit them near oranges.

Never heard of using apples. The newspaper thing works well. Putting a few in a paper bag works well. I have stored them on open shelf in a root cellar and had ripe tomato sandwiches as late as new years day. I would lay about three or more thickness of newspaper on shelf and just lay news paper on top of them. I have been told not to use the slick colored paper. I tried laying them on bare wood shelf and they did not do good. Make sure they do not touch each other. I have been told to pull the plant up by the roots and hang in cellar. When I tried that the tomatoes shriveled up and the plant stayed nice and green up until past the first of year. Had a neighbor would wrap them in newspaper and store them in a box. That has worked for me as well. I tried putting them in a box without wrapping and they would rot. About as many ways of ripening tomatoes as different areas of the country. If you like fried green tomatoes,slice them dip in batter lay wax paper in bottom of large cake pan place in freezer when that layer freezes another sheet of wax paper and tomotoes until pan is full. If you don't like fried green tomatoes send them to me and I'll take care of them
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Why would anyone want to ripen perfectly good green tomatoes??????????
Fry them babies up and enjoy.......

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You got that right. Teach these heathens, Dave.

Haven't had them in well over 20 years.... We only put out 3 or 4 plants and the usually something small. Keep saying I'm gonna plant some big meat mators and partake, but never get around to it. Usually just settle for zuccini...Mom used to slice and can them.


Dave

I cut the plants at ground level and hung them upside down in the garage last winter- they kept ripening, and I kept picking them until December. None seemed to shrivel up. But with no sun, they became increasingly sour as time went on- finally abandoned the project when they got so sour that they were worse than "store-bought."

I did my annual "pre-freeze tomato pick" last weekend- picked everything that was ripe, cooked them up into a big batch of chili- that's some good eatin', right there. Low of 26 was predicted, got up in the AM and it was 45. Had covered them for the night, of course, and plants are still healthy, and temps now in the 40's and 50's- so may still get some more ripening.