"jakell" wrote in message
o.uk...
hi,
can anyone help. I grew tomatoes this year for the first time and have got
some nice sized fruit, but they are not going red. Took one off the plant as
it's stem was broken and within a week it was red. Do they all need to be
picked before they will turn red????

No, they will turn red on the plant, and taste really good when they do.
But sometimes they run out of time, it gets too cold for the plant, and
then you're left with trying to ripen them off the plant, which doesn't
work as well.
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Kay