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By Dave36

Clackmannanshire, United Kingdom

my beefeater tomatoes are still showing no sign of ripening, they are in gteenhouse and have some huge fruits and are healthy. how long before ripe:




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Hi Dave and welcome to GoY. This is a particularly slow year for ripening toms! The bigger the tom. the longer it takes to ripen... I can understand your frustration but there is not a lot you can do. One possible solution is to pick the ripest ones and put in a paper bag with a ripe banana - I have not done this but those who have swear it speeds up ripening, let me know if it works :-) I suspect we are all going to be making green tomato chutney and/or ripening toms. indoors this year.

4 Aug, 2010

 

I've heard of that too, all mine are in the greenhouse and still growing and still very green. Not enough sun I'm afraid - I might be resorting to the banana bag treatment as I don't fancy too much of the green tomato chutney...

4 Aug, 2010

 

Green tomato chutney doesn't do it for me either...

5 Aug, 2010

 

Welcome to Goy Dave. I made green tomato chutney with mine last year so I'm persevering this year Moon grower... lol!

5 Aug, 2010

 

Thanks for your answers, I'll try the banana thing a later in season. meanwhile I will wipe off some of the "COOLGLASS" product which I applied earlier in year, am quite partial to the green tomato chutney so won't be too disappointed.Now I better start collecting preserving jars and reading up.

5 Aug, 2010

 

Do you mean you have had the glass of your greenhouse covered with something? If so how did you expect the toms. to ripen

5 Aug, 2010

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