These are about the last of my outdoor tomatoes and I don't think that any more will ripen on the vine. I still have some in the greenhouse, but these are looking like green tomato chutney to me.
I've had great difficulty getting the outdoor tomatoes to ripen this year in fact, as I write, I have pickling vinegar seeping ready to make green tomato chutney this evening! Nice pic by the way!
@judithdeacon My late mum-in-law andher generation used to keep and ripen tomatoes by putting them in a wooden drawer. She swore that if you also wrapped them in newspaper they would have tomatoes at Christmas.
thatw as pre fridges , supermarkets etc and definitely wartime grow yor own .
You might like to try It i with some @judithdeacon
@june my late mother in law told me to put them in a brown paper bag and shut them in a drawer. They ripen quite quickly like this but I don't know about keeping them till Christmas!
On second inspection I don't have enough green tomatoes for chutney so these are probably destined for the brown bag treatment,
@june Funnily enough I was just talking to my mother on the phone who said the same thing, I may well try that with the greenhouse ones if they fail to ripen!
Alternatively, you bring them in and put them in a brown paper bag with a ripe banana. They'll ripen in a day or two because the bananas provide the plant hormone, ethene, which the tomatoes need but lack at this time of year. PS great focus on the green veins and droplets in your pic.
thatw as pre fridges , supermarkets etc and definitely wartime grow yor own .
You might like to try It i with some @judithdeacon
On second inspection I don't have enough green tomatoes for chutney so these are probably destined for the brown bag treatment,