On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:50:01 -0700, (Glenna Rose)
wrote:

Sorry, just be patient. They will ripen. Didn't someone on this group
say a watched tomato doesn't ripen?
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Two issues; the weather and how to make tomatoes ripen sooner.

The Weather...
In the NY/NJ/PA area I heard it said that the colder & rainy weather
we had this year will have the effect of delaying harvest by a few
weeks on such things as corn an tomatoes. I know my garden in NJ
certainly seems a few weeks behind schedule this year. My first 1"
sized cucumbers and tomatoes finally appeared this past week.
Normally, I'm already picking cucumbers by now and my first
tomatoes come in the second week of July. Definately a few weeks
late this year.

Trick for ripening Tomatoes....
According the the book by Dick Raymond; The Love of Gardening,
you can make your tomatoes ripen faster if you do "root pruning"
when the tomatoes are green. Root pruning is where you take your
spade shovel and cut into the earth in a half circular pattern about
12 inches from the plant. Supposedly, this cuts into the root system
and triggers the plant to ripen the tomatoes. Try it!
Let me know if it works for you.

---pete---