"George.com" wrote in message
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At the end of April I still have some late green tomatos out on my vines.
I want to ripen them before frosts arrive so I took some in recently that
had just started to get some colour and put them in a paper bag with a
ripening banana. Within a few days the tomatos had ripened. Bananas emit
ethylene gas, pears or apples can also be used. I have dark green ones in
bags at the moment ripening. Well worth doing for ripening late season
tomatos if your autumn sun is rapidly dissappearing but you want to make
the most of a long summers crop. I have been enjoying tomatos for 4 months
now.

rob

When I pull out all the old tomato plants I pick off ALL the fruit no matter
what sizeor colour. I put the vines in a basket and daily pick over the
fruit and select the ripened ones. The pile becomes smaller and smaller, the
last fruit are always eaten Chrismas Eve with our stand pie. Many are still
very small but it's tradition!

Mary