When winter sets in how do you ripen green tomatoes?
2006-09-10 03:30:10 · 11 answers · asked by Bean 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
A couple of ways, Set them in a window, for a more rapid ripening put them in a brown paper grocer's bag. The enclosed bag lets the gasses given off by the tomatoes speed up the ripening system. You can put them in a cooler spot to slow the ripening, but never put them in the refrigerator, that will ruin them.
2006-09-10 03:38:54 · answer #1 · answered by damsel36 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put them in a bag with a ripe apple ( seriously! ) the etyhylene gas emitted by the apple helps to ripen the tomatoes.
2006-09-10 03:37:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
MY grandfather just brought them in and set them in a window. They ripened in 4- 6 weeks.
2006-09-10 03:47:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrap them in newspaper and put them in a paper bag. They will ripen in about a week.
2006-09-10 03:33:01 · answer #4 · answered by bugear001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A friend of mine swears by those "natural sunlight lightbulbs" she ripens vegetables and fruits, and also places her plants under them and they grow!!
2006-09-10 03:36:09 · answer #5 · answered by kelee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sit 'em in the sun and they will ripen
2006-09-10 03:36:41 · answer #6 · answered by geminiblue26 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like bugear said, cover them with newpaper, no need to wrap them, and keep them nice and warm, not in a cool spot.. bingo, red tomatoes in a few days..
2006-09-10 03:35:22 · answer #7 · answered by michael o 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just put them in the window in a few days they are red and ripe.
2006-09-10 03:42:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do what the first person who answered this said. Ive done that for years myself and it always works. My grandmother taught me that trick.
2006-09-10 03:36:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
place them in a sunny window sill
2006-09-10 03:35:11 · answer #10 · answered by foothill4fun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋