Re: Ripening late tomatos with bananas

"George.com" <roblyn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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

When I pull out all the old tomato plants I pick off ALL the fruit no
matter 
what sizeor colour. I put the vines in a basket and daily pick over the 
fruit and select the ripened ones. The pile becomes smaller and smaller,
the 
last fruit are always eaten Chrismas Eve with our stand pie. Many are
still 
very small but it's tradition!

Mary
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