I'm getting some tomatoes coming from the vine where one half is very red
and the other half is very green. I picked those and put them in a paper
bag but was wondering how to eat those. Should I cut it in half, eat the
red part, and then wait for the green part to turn red?

BTW: Most of the tomatoes ripen evenly.

Wait till they are ripe all the way around.

Mark Anderson wrote:

I'm getting some tomatoes coming from the vine where one half is very red
and the other half is very green. I picked those and put them in a paper
bag but was wondering how to eat those. Should I cut it in half, eat the
red part, and then wait for the green part to turn red?

BTW: Most of the tomatoes ripen evenly.

I would agree with that.
One thought... Too much exposure to sun can make some tomatoes ripen
funny. Usually you see it on the top (around the stem) leaving an area
that never ripens normally. I wonder if the sun exposed side is the part
that stays green when it happens in your garden. Have you lost some
leaves to disease this year?

Steve in the Adirondacks

PS This is my first post to this group. I started reading it 2 days
ago. I don't know why I didn't check into this group earlier. I always
grow a garden and have fruit trees as well.




Kswck wrote:

Wait till they are ripe all the way around.

Mark Anderson wrote:

I'm getting some tomatoes coming from the vine where one half is very
red and the other half is very green. I picked those and put them in
a paper bag but was wondering how to eat those. Should I cut it in
half, eat the red part, and then wait for the green part to turn red?

BTW: Most of the tomatoes ripen evenly.

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 03:17:19 GMT, Steve
wrote:

I would agree with that.
One thought... Too much exposure to sun can make some tomatoes ripen
funny. Usually you see it on the top (around the stem) leaving an area
that never ripens normally. I wonder if the sun exposed side is the part
that stays green when it happens in your garden. Have you lost some
leaves to disease this year?

Steve in the Adirondacks

PS This is my first post to this group. I started reading it 2 days
ago. I don't know why I didn't check into this group earlier. I always
grow a garden and have fruit trees as well.


Welcome aboard!

I've wondered about the Adirondacks and gardening: we're in
the Appalachians in north central Pennsylvania and our last
expected frost is around May 31 (hahahahaha - two of the
three years we've lived here, we've had killing frosts in
mid-June) and our first expected frost is around October 1.

Is your season similar to that, or even shorter?

Pat
--
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry

In article says...
I would agree with that.
One thought... Too much exposure to sun can make some tomatoes ripen
funny. Usually you see it on the top (around the stem) leaving an area
that never ripens normally. I wonder if the sun exposed side is the part
that stays green when it happens in your garden. Have you lost some
leaves to disease this year?

That is what's happening. My staking system was not up to par this year
and the plants are falling all over the place. The half in the shade
start to turn red.

Kswck wrote:

Wait till they are ripe all the way around.

I'm afraid the red side will get soft and rotten by the time the green
side turns red.

Well, I guessed that one right.
Eat the good half and throw the other part away. The ones with some
shade cover should be all good.

Steve

Mark Anderson wrote:
In article says...

I would agree with that.
One thought... Too much exposure to sun can make some tomatoes ripen
funny. Usually you see it on the top (around the stem) leaving an area
that never ripens normally. I wonder if the sun exposed side is the part
that stays green when it happens in your garden. Have you lost some
leaves to disease this year?


That is what's happening. My staking system was not up to par this year
and the plants are falling all over the place. The half in the shade
start to turn red.


Kswck wrote:


Wait till they are ripe all the way around.


I'm afraid the red side will get soft and rotten by the time the green
side turns red.

Thank you Pat.
Our season is similar to yours ONLY because I am lucky enough to live on
the waterfront of a warm shallow lake. There were already warnings of
scattered frost just 2 days ago. May 31 is often considered the frost
free date here but people who live away from the lake have years where
there is frost every month of the summer. (If not for the lake, I'm not
sure I would bother trying to garden at all.)
My average last frost is just about October 1st. I know people who live
in a "frost pocket" and they rarely get past the end of August without a
frost. Thank goodness for micro climates.

Steve


Pat Meadows wrote:

Welcome aboard!

I've wondered about the Adirondacks and gardening: we're in
the Appalachians in north central Pennsylvania and our last
expected frost is around May 31 (hahahahaha - two of the
three years we've lived here, we've had killing frosts in
mid-June) and our first expected frost is around October 1.

Is your season similar to that, or even shorter?

Pat

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:55:28 GMT, Steve
wrote:

Thank you Pat.
Our season is similar to yours ONLY because I am lucky enough to live on
the waterfront of a warm shallow lake. There were already warnings of
scattered frost just 2 days ago. May 31 is often considered the frost
free date here but people who live away from the lake have years where
there is frost every month of the summer. (If not for the lake, I'm not
sure I would bother trying to garden at all.)
My average last frost is just about October 1st. I know people who live
in a "frost pocket" and they rarely get past the end of August without a
frost. Thank goodness for micro climates.

Old-timers here tell me that there has been frost every
single month of the year. I believe it, but haven't lived
here that long. It often goes into the low 40s at night in
summer, and occasionally high 30s, that's for sure. Not
good for heat-loving plants.

Do you have a hoophouse?

We're planning on building one this fall (although we may be
moving, which will set the hoophouse plans back, probably
until next spring.)

Pat

When last we left our heros, on Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:22:37 -0400,
Pat Meadows scribbled:

it's cold up there

Old-timers here tell me that there has been frost every
single month of the year. I believe it, but haven't lived
here that long. It often goes into the low 40s at night in
summer, and occasionally high 30s, that's for sure. Not
good for heat-loving plants.

Not good for heat-loving folks either! I've been up that way
on vacation for the past two summers, and if it's that cold
in the summer, I don't even wanna think about winter! I was
in Upstate New York in April, and it *snowed*!

Do you know how dangerous it is for a Southerner to be out
in a heavy snow storm? We're like that old urban legend (Hi Pan)
about turkeys in a rainstorm. We stand in the falling snow, arms
stretched out to catch the snow flakes, head back and mouth
agape. And we'll stand there until they start to announce school
closings or someone drags us back inside.

I don't know how people survive where it's that cold that long!


Pam, Fair Flower of Southern Femininity




--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
"ElissaAnn"

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 02:37:49 GMT, Pam Rudd
wrote:


Not good for heat-loving folks either! I've been up that way
on vacation for the past two summers, and if it's that cold
in the summer, I don't even wanna think about winter! I was
in Upstate New York in April, and it *snowed*!

Oh pshaw! April snow ain't nothin'. I don't pay any
attention to April snow, it's when it snows in late May that
I sit up and take notice!

snip

I don't know how people survive where it's that cold that long!


snip

And I can't stand the south's heat and humidity. I spent
ten years living in Delaware, then two years in Southern NJ,
and two years in Maryland (near Baltimore) - all hot places
in summer - and that was terrible for me. Never again! If
we ever leave here, we're going northwards...

Pat

Steve wrote:

Well, I guessed that one right.
Eat the good half and throw the other part away. The ones with some
shade cover should be all good.

Steve

eat the ripest half and make salsa with the rest.

--
Zone 8b (Detroit, MI)
I do not post my address to news groups.

Hey Mark,
If you place them in a bowl with some apples they'll ripen
quickly. Apples give off a gas that causes other fruits and veggies to
ripen, or if your no a little careful, to rot.

Larry Losciale
"Mark Anderson" wrote in message
.net...
I'm getting some tomatoes coming from the vine where one half is very red
and the other half is very green. I picked those and put them in a paper
bag but was wondering how to eat those. Should I cut it in half, eat the
red part, and then wait for the green part to turn red?

BTW: Most of the tomatoes ripen evenly.