Thought I'd post this about tomato ripening. Just in case anyone was unsure.

'There are many common ways to ripen your tomatoes, including using jars, plastic bags, cardboard boxes, kitchen drawers and paper bags, or directly on the vine.
The reason for most of these methods is that tomatoes naturally give off ethylene gas, which stimulates the ripening process. If you keep the tomatoes in an enclosed space this keeps the ethylene gas from escaping and encourages the tomato to ripen faster.

Another commonly used way to get them to ripen even faster is to use any method (bags, boxes, drawers etc) which keeps them enclosed and put a ripening banana in with them.
Bananas naturally give off lots more ethylene gas as they ripen, which will stimulate your tomatoes even more.'

Just in case you have a few greeny's left over you can always pickle them. These are great with cheese
I'll post a recipe soon.