08-08-2005, 01:33 PM
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p.mc sigadd1to wrote in message
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Hi
When is the right, or best time to pick tomatoes from the plant? Also
storage.
Is it as soon as they turn red, or X amount of days after colouring, or
firmness??
I'd like to eat them at their best stage, ripe I think is the term.
This is my second season growing tomatoes and them questions have always
eluded me.
It's a bit like when you see the ladies giving fruits a squeeze at the
market, I always think they know something that we men don't know. :-)
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Regards
p.mc
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Hi pmc,
Picking them is fairly straight forward and is, to a large extent, dependent
on your preference and intended usage:-
a) green .. not ripe, nor usually considered edible, but can be used for
chutneys or sliced and fried for breakfast.
b) orange and firm .. starting to ripen. Pick one and see if you like it;
if you like it pick more.
c) red and firm .. ripe but not over-ripe.
d) red and soft .. over-ripe (in my opinion). In the supermarket, often the
result of too many ladies squeezing them!!
I've never had to store a glut of toms, but common sense suggests that you
store dry, healthy fruits, preferably a little under-ripe.
Other methods of storing might be as processed toms, e.g.: cooked and frozen
... souped and frozen .. bottled .. Have a look in a good recipe book.
Spider
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