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sandy
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green tomatoes

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had to remove all the lovely big tomatoes from the greenhouse, now how do I encourage them to go red?
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I have put mine on a warm windowsill or on the shelf in the greenhouse. Hopefully someone else will come up with better ideas.
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Not tried it but read that to ripen green tomatoes put a banana in with them. It is know to work with apples so worth trying.
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We used to wrap them in newspaper in a box. They were outdoor grown, so often proved to have potato blight, and rotted before ripening.
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Thanks peep)t' Luckily my cousins wife visited and took all the grren ones to make chutney so good result.
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Dorrens daughter
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I've just put the one's I harvested from my balcony in a bowl with some ripe ones to give them an idea of how they should look.
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I've just put the one's I harvested from my balcony in a bowl with some ripe ones to give them an idea of how they should look.

Can you tell us whether they take the hint?!
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Well Freeranger they have taken the hint and are ripening beautifully.)t'
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