Re: Ripening late tomatos with bananas

In article <fv9dbi$dmo$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "George.com" <roblyn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> At the end of April I still have some late green tomatos out on my
vines. I 
> want to ripen them before frosts arrive so I took some in recently that
had 
> just started to get some colour and put them in a paper bag with a
ripening 
> banana. Within a few days the tomatos had ripened. Bananas emit ethylene

> gas, pears or apples can also be used. I have dark green ones in bags at
the 
> moment ripening. Well worth doing for ripening late season tomatos if
your 
> autumn sun is rapidly dissappearing but you want to make the most of a
long 
> summers crop. I have been enjoying tomatos for 4 months now.
> 
> rob 

I've tried it, with no apparent difference in ripening from just stored 
tomatoes.
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