"alan.holmes" wrote in message
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"Paul" wrote in message
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I took the kitchen waste to the green - Darlek type - compost bin on the
allotment this morning, tipped it in and stirred it around. Then I spotted
some red tomatoes. They looked healthy, not rotten or broken. Fished on
out. Perfectly ripe, ready to eat. Then it dawned on me. My partner had
got rid of all the green tomatoes from the greenhouse at the end of
October.
So now we can enjoy the last of the tomatoes, about half a kilo.
Paul.
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Paul reply-to is valid

I put mine with the bananas, apparently bananas give off some sort of gas
which ripens tomatoes.



Bananas produce ethylene:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene

If you scroll down to 'plant responses', you will see that ethylene does a
lot different things with plants.

mark