Unripe tomatoes

[pickledtink]

I'll leave mine out until it gets close to frost time. Some of the plants were grown from pinched out side shoots so will be the last but I reckon letting them ripen at their own pace means I get a steady supply rather than a big glut.
Any still green before the frost will be popped on a sunny windowsill and some will be used for battered fried green tomatoes.

[Earthbabe]

That sounds fab dwrudd, especially as you don't have to leave it overnight. May manage to save the rest with bit of blight on.

Will give it a whirl.

[supersam]

Hi All
Well they have been in the drawer a week now with the nanner for company but nothing has ripened!! Am I doing something wrong? I don't know whether to try the windowsill?
The plants they came off are still going strong and more are getting bigger!
If I can't get them to ripen I may be up to my knees in green chutney!!

[Waffler]

I heard somewhere that ripening with a banana in a draw can take 3 weeks.

What I don't understand is how all these people have drawer space for tomato ripening: I manage to fill mine (just realised how that may sound!)

[supersam]

Ripe at last

Well folks, I gave up on the drawer/banana method and put them on the window sill. Hey presto the are ripe but only upstairs, not on the down stairs window - any idea why they both face the same direction!. I am now ripening my fourth lot and the plants keep producing them. The ones I picked tonight I think may be the last as it is going colder now at night but then I thought that with the last lot I picked. Oh and they are the tastiest and juiceiest I have tasted in ages! Up yours Tesco etc !!

[Earthbabe]

Well folks, I gave up on the drawer/banana method and put them on the window sill. Hey presto the are ripe but only upstairs, not on the down stairs window - any idea why they both face the same direction!. I am now ripening my fourth lot and the plants keep producing them. The ones I picked tonight I think may be the last as it is going colder now at night but then I thought that with the last lot I picked. Oh and they are the tastiest and juiceiest I have tasted in ages! Up yours Tesco etc !!

I can only assume that there is less light getting through the downstairs window even if the heat is the same.

At least you know what works for you now.