We havy loads of tomatoes growing outside how can we get them to go red we have no greenhouse ?

Question

hate to see them go to waste

Answer 1

put them in the window , let the sun blast them .

Answer 2

Hi

Max Power's got it spot on.

Ray West York's. U.K.

Answer 3

Ripen them off by putting them in a paper bag (or wrapped in newspaper) with a ripe banana. The banana gives off ethylene gas which helps the tomatoes to ripen without sunlight. Check them daily as it is quite a quick process.

Or you could make green tomatoe chutney.

Answer 4

Wrap them up, and put them in a drawer, or somewhere dark & warm.

enjoy.

Answer 5

Max Power and Wuz are on the right lines. Wrapping them in paper is right and so is the ripe tomato but better, wrap them in paper with a ripening banana. If the banana completes ripening before the tomatoes, eat it and replace with another ripening banana. The gas Wuz referred to is acetylene, also known as ethyne. It acts as a plant hormone, stimulating the ripening of any fruit. The reason for the banana is that they produce most.

Answer 6

put them in a box with a ripe tomato and the ripe tomato will send the green ones red, the red tomato gives off a gas that prompts the other tomato's to go red. this is the truth

Answer 7

Try putting them into a paper bag, close the neck - about 8 or 10 and then put them into your socks drawer.  As simple as that - check them every few days they should ripen, they do for me.   It could have something to do with my socks!!

Answer 8

Wrapping in newspaper to keep, then sitting on the counter or on a windowsill to ripen will work.  You can cut them attached to the vine, and they tend to keep longer and be sweeter when they ripen.

I'd leave them on the plant as long as you can, before harvesting them.  

You can also make fried green tomatoes with them right now.  

Answer 9

If you want to save them and use them along the way. Wrap them in news paper and store them in a card board box.They will turn red in time if you want to do them this way.  

Answer 10

I have been growing loads of tomatos in my back yard, This year, for some reason they have been the slowest ever to turn red, It's only been within the past week that some of them have started turning red.

And than I've only gotten about 10 of them.  I've never seen it like this before, Usually by july there are red tomatos everywhere, but not this year.  I dont know why,  I've got tons of plants outside that are still green.  

The ones that have been turning red, have been from just one or 2 plants out of my 12 that I planted, I dont know why it's just going red in that one spot, I wish I could figure out Why none of the other ones are green.

Someone in my neighborhood said they wondered if it was cause it was so cold,

I planted in may, and in june we had some near freezing tempatures,

and I hears someone say that nationally this was the coolest august since 1940.  So much for global warming.

Answer 11

I know we haven't seen much sunshine, but what I do is pick them and line them up on a sunny window sill.  

Answer 12

They will ripen on your kitchen counter.  The suggestion of wrapping them in newspaper is a great old trick.  My grandparents would harvest all tomatoes before the first frost and wrap the green ones in newspapers in a box in a cool place (they put them under the beds).  Unwrap and set them on the counter a few days to turn red.  They would have tomatoes all the way 'till Chrsitmas.  

Answer 13

Tomatoes in the UK ripen outdoors from early to late sept.It's too early.At the end of sept,if you have some green ones left,than they need warmth and not necessarily light to ripen so a laundry area or above an immersion heater will do the trick.otherwise use green in soups or casseroles or as chutney

Answer 14

Wrap them in newspaper an put them in box for a while checking regularly ,for soft ones , should do the trick  

Answer 15

put them in a brown paper bag with a ripe banana or a ripe apple this seems to do the trick

Answer 16

Man I wish I was your neighbor! I love tomatoes! You might have to ax some of the plants that produce them. Other than that, not much you can do, just pick them and let them ripe.