green tomatos

[tea]

My plum cherry tomatos are still very much green..they have been for ages - does that mean now that they'll never go red?

[Green Aura]

Not necessarily.

Trying scattering the ground with banana skins - they give off something that helps fruit ripen.

If you want to pick them you can put them in a single layer in the light and they'll still ripen, although maybe not the rich red of summer.

[Urban Ayisha]

keep them close to already red tomatoes and that should help them ripen!

[spitfire]

put them in a brown paper bag along with a banana or an apple, the fruit gives off "ethane gas" thats the stuff that they pipe into truck loads of tomatoes that are picked green for shipping by the big company's. works great but don't taste as good as the ripe ones right of the vines

[Gem]

I got fed up of waiting for mine to turn so made chutney out of them. I have done it before and it tastes fine. They split on the vine and or I loose them to the first frost otherwise. (though am lazy with the toms tbh..)

[MuddyWitch]

Green tomato chutney is one of my favourites, but my toms all ripened, maddeningly!

I still have one precious jar from last year that I'm saving for the Festive Season.

MW

[Gem]

I am a big fan as well TBH, I have a batch to go in the xmas hampers this year so will have to see what the general concensus is!