On Monday, August 12, 2013 12:55:06 PM UTC-7, cassiope wrote:
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:47:37 -0700, Higgs Boson wrote:



As posted earlier, my tomatoes this year are a disaster. Something got

in them, probably brought home from nursery. That's what I get for

buying plants instead of growing from seed. Fatal delay?



Question: If I pick the few remaining tomatoes green and let them ripen

on the windowsill, will they still turn up infected & inedible? Or does

the disease manifest itself only toward vine ripening time?



Any experience out there?



TIA



HB



Tomatoes picked wholly green generally don't ripen, at least not with any real flavor.

If they've become at least somewhat pale green they may turn color eventually, but

still will never achieve that fully vine-ripened flavor. This is, of course, how

most grocery-store fruit are picked (before shipping & ethylene gassing).



Keeping your fruit physically separate reduces the likelihood of disease transmission.

At garden year's end I simply put them on a sheet of newspaper, spaced apart. Usually these last for ~2 months.

Sorry, don't understand. Could you explain.. you're putting picked fruit on newspapers or...?

TIA

HB