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Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: scabs on August 15, 2009, 17:48

Title: Best way to ripen tomatoes?
Post by: scabs on August 15, 2009, 17:48

I found one of my toms had collapsed yesterday and the stem had snapped (bit of a mystery, actually)

Anyway, I removed the bunches ot tomatoes, leaving them on the vine and they are on the windowsill in the company of a banana.  :blush:

Will this do it? How long will it take? Am I better of using them some other way (there's not that many really)?

Title: Re: Best way to ripen tomatoes?
Post by: mumofstig on August 15, 2009, 19:04

They will ripen as long as they are not too small. I would think that they will start to turn within a few days.................but there are always a few that take forever :)

Title: Re: Best way to ripen tomatoes?
Post by: Plottered on August 15, 2009, 19:39

I have mine in the greenhouse but they always ripen quicker on the windowsill which i find quite strange really.