Green tomatoes

Can anyone help me.

This is the first year I have done and have magnificent tomatoes but because of lack of sun so far this year they are still v green (although I had a happy moment last night finding out my first chilli out of about 30 I have! is at last going orange).

Will I eventually get to a time of year that if they are still green they will not turn red, they will stay green, I will have to try and find receipes for green tomatoes otherwise they will turn brown, fall off and die....

Thanks

J

 

Hi, I was having the same problem with my toms, An elderly aunt told me to place bananas around the base of them. This I did, it worked for me after about 8 days my toms are turning a lovely shade of red you too could try this . Best of luck, cheers Barb.

ps the ones i`ve picked tasted great.

 

what a wierd suggestion !!! I will try anything thank you !!:lollol::thumb:

 

logo06, are you growing them outside or inside? My greenhouse toms are mostly still green but are now just starting to ripen, as they will do througout August and September. When the weather grows colder I stop watering them and let the vines start to die off, if they still havn't ripened by the time winter sets in. I cut the vines at the base and bring the toms indoors to a cool dry place, they all ripen eventually. If you are growing them outside, it depends on how the weather goes, just hope for an indian summer, my outside toms are nowhere near ripe yet.

 

They are outside tomatoes and i am just concerned the longer the year goes own they will just ruin

 

I read or heard something a while ago that it in all of Europe it is only us Brits that are obsessed with the idea that tomatoes have to be red.

Some tomatoes actually taste better while still green (the huge ones), and in sunnier parts are simply sliced up and served in salads. I've had green toms in mainland spain, some of her islands and one of the Greek islands and they were superb. It may be that the huge ones they grow there are just sweeter, and the smaller ones may be more bitter, I don't know.

In any case, after his main tomato harvest, my dad always picks any that failed to ripen and uses them to make chutney, which is superb in a cheese sarnie.

 

I second Clueless, Logi06.
You can't eat all your tomatoes at once so could start using some green ones now.
They're lovely cooked. You can half them and fry them or put them on a trayand sprinlkle with sugar and roast them in the oven.
And green tomato soup is lovely.

 

Hi,

I have 14 tomato plants this year (3 diff varieties) and 10 trailing in a basket.
The plum, trailing & strawberry shaped variety have had ripe toms for the last 3-4 weeks.
the salad toms (bigger ones) are just starting now. I must have picked over 100 toms already.
They were all grown from seed and are outdoors.
3 in 1 growbag, 3x in 1 big gorilla tub and the rest in 5L plastic pots.
The funny thing is, I don't even like tomatoes (no joke), but the wife loves em...thankfully.

Don't give up on em, they'll come good before too long.
Good luck

 

I've never found that ripening toms indoors works that well. We've done the bananas bit and the putting them in a drawer bit.

They do cook absolutely fine when green.

But the very best thing to do is give them to my mum for her to make green tomato chutney. Hers is the best I've ever had by far!

S

 

A pro tomato grower told me the trick was to leave them on the vine to ripen them, that's what I do now and very seldom have any green ones left. I was just wondering if the outside toms were just so far behind they might not ripen, depends on variety and when they were sown (and the weather :( ).

 

I understand that putting them in a loosely closed polythene (polyethylene) bag helps because this also gives off un-polymerised ethylene, same as the ripe bananas.

 

"But the very best thing to do is give them to my mum for her to make green tomato chutney"

Sounds good to me, what's her number? :hehe: