Have 14 tomato plants laden with fruit but not ripening?
wait and be patient, they will ripen in time, they will also ripen if the are picked and brought inside if you leave them in a window
Reply:not enough sun. Make green tomato chutney
Reply:Have you ever tried fried green tomato's? They are delicious. However if you wait they will ripen unless your weather has turned cold and no sun.
Reply:Have you heard of fried green tomatoes? Have you ever thought of mixing chunks of green tomatoes with yellow squash and zuccinni? There are a zillion things tht you can do with green tomatoes. They are tart, firm textured, and work well with any type of sautee.
If you think they will just die on the vine, pick em and eat em.
Reply:Pinch out all the tips of the plants and also remove the lower leaves. Also, stop watering the plants and they will ripen much quicker now. Green apple chutney is lovely, too.
Also, if you pick a few tomatos and put next to a few ripe bananas, the gas from them will help ripen the picked tomatos. Another way, though I don't use this method, is to place some tomatoes into a brown paper bag and place into a drawer until repe.
Reply:Home grown have been slow this year, pick them, put them in a brown paper bag a put somewhere warm they'll ripen in less than a week. A suuny window sill is fine.
Reply:leave them until the beginning of October just before the frost arrives and then pick them and put them on your windowsill to ripen if not already done so
Reply:Depending on where you are, it may be getting too cold for them. Give them some more time. If they don't ripen, pick them. Wrap in the newspaper and put them in a large brown paper bag. They'll ripen in about a week or so. Won't taste as good as "vine ripened" but they will be better than store bought. My vinesn (8) gave out about a month ago in this 100 degree Texas summer.
Reply:I have made this for at least seven years.and I have sent receipe around the world.Good results all round.
Green Tomatoe Marmalade
5 lemons
water
900g2lb) green tomatoes
1.6kg(3 1/2 lb) sugar
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Wash lemons, halve and squeeze out the juice.Remove the remaining flsh and place it in a large piece of mslin with the pips. Strip away the excess pith and cut the peel into thin strips; place in a pan, add 400ml(3/4pt)water and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes. Meanwhile cut the tomatoes into quarters, remove the core and seeds and add to the lemon pips and flesh in the muslin; tie toghtly. Shred the tomato flesh and place in a preserving pan with the lemon shreds, plus the liquid and summer all together until tender - about 40 minutes. Add the sugar and boil briskly until setting point is reached. Pot and cover in the usual way. Makess 2.3kg (5lb). This is a good way instead of the normal chutneys. even children love this. Honest. not joking one way of getting them to eat fruit. Gone to America. Germany Austrailia and New Zealand, and maybe many more now.My own children love this plus their partners, got to keep making.
Source(s):
Old Good Housekeeping Cookery Book.
Reply:Tomatoes will ripen in a brown paper bag or on a window-sill.
Reply:Pick some of them, on the vine, and put them in a paper bag with a ripe apple or banana. The ethylene given off by the ripe fruit should help them turn. Failing that make chutney, with apple, onions, green tomatoes and vinegar.
Reply:Essentially you have two choices at this stage of the season:
1/ Prune EVERY branch and stem that does not have fruit and then prune the leaves off the stems that remain. Leave nothing but the fruit!!! This will allow the fruit to receive ALL the nutrients from the soil AND receive more sunshine thereby ripening them quicker.
2/ It is getting very late so you may want to simply pick the fruit, put them in a paper bag or loosly wrapped in newspaper and place a banana in with them.
Sounds daft but bananas emit a gas (whose name eludes me) that contains a ripening agent.
If you like bananas then change the banana every day and eat the one you removed as the bananas quickly over ripen themselves in the conditions given above.
Quick tip for people who use thier patio and grow bags for toms, a grow bag laid flat will take 3 to 4 plants but will need lots of cane and string to support them due to the shallow nature of grow bags: turn the grow bags on thier sides and you can plant the same amount of toms but (propped up on either side) you now have 15 inches of root space to give you deeper rooted stronger plants that need less support and maintainence!!!
Reply:If they are in a greenhouse and the plants haven't started to shrivel up, leave them alone - they'll ripen in time. You can speed them up by leaving a banana in the greenhouse (it gives off ethylene) but they'll taste like ones you get in the supermarket.
If they are outdoor plants, or if the plants are shivelling, pick the fruit and keep them indoors. I've found that it doesn't make much difference whether you keep them in the light or in the dark. Check them every day and throw away any that look unhealthy. Don't eat them until they are a deep red colour or you'll find they have green cores.
If you find you've got a lot of very small fruit that are slow to ripen, try pickling them by boiling in spiced vinegar for 3 minutes - then put them in sealed jars with the vinegar. They go great with Christmas turkey.
Reply:simply pick them and put them in a warm dry light area indoors
Reply:BIN laden?
Reply:The temperature has been too low.
You can put something around them, or take the plants into the garage or basement and use a grow-light.
Reply:Leve them where the sun can get to them, they should ripen in time, you will have to be patient, Hold on a minute you aint growing green tomatoes? if you are, they will never turn red, I'm not winding you up, I have seen many cookery programs on tv and Jamie oliver did a show a week or two ago and he used green tomatoes, sorry I cannot remember the dish.
But look at the funny side of it, if you are growing green tomatoes, you will have a hell of a long wait as I think they will never turn red.
Again, rest assured I am not winding you up, drop me an email so that I can get back to you incase I remember.
Regards Bubbles Jimmy 50 year old married disabled gentleman. Good luck
Ps. I just posted this on your page and read some of the other answers and bingo there it was, thanks to one of the people answering, ITS CHUTNEY!!!!! thank heavens for that as I would have been up all night wondering what the hell it was, thank you to Alex B.
Reply:if they dont rippen then make some chutney.
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