Can I ripen veggies indoors ?

Question

I have a garden full of tomatoes and squash that are not yet ripe and it is going to snow tomorrow. How can I ripen them if I ipick them ?

I live near Calgary Alberta Canada and they are calling for snow starting Thursday . My garden is full of unripe tomatoes and squash. Help !!

Answer 1

You can pick squashes already, its edible maturity is the same always, only the sizes changes. In the other hand tomatoes, the soonest you can pick them and continue ripening off the vine is when they are mature green (this is when you can see a white star in fruit´s bottom or take a tomato from a certain height, cut it transversely with a knife, if you don´t cut any seed it means that all the tomatoes from other plants at the same height and size are mature green) take all you mature green or low color tomatoes put them in brown paper bag and store them in the kitchen (warm temperature it is better -65ºF), if you put a ripe banana inside the bag the tomatoes will ripe faster and better, light it´s not important (tomatoes naturally ripe because when they are mature they produce its own ethylene which cause ripening, what you are doing with the brown paper bag is to concentrate ethylene which helps, and the ripe banana expels a lot of ethylene). Since you are getting a snow, hurry up and pick everything you can put the all the tomatoes in paper bags and wait to see how much fruit ripes!!....good luck.....by the way...where are you located???

Answer 2

not sure about the squash but tomatoes should still ripen just pick them off and put them in a basket and put them someplace inside where they will get some some sun turn the basket a little way around each day.

Answer 3

You can ripen fruits off the vine (tomatoes) not veggies (squash) But squash can be eaten very young so they'll still taste ok.

Answer 4

I know you can put tomatoes in a brown paper bag and put them in a dark room or closet for a few days and they will ripen.

Don't know about the squash.

Answer 5

Brown paper bag works great! I just tried it with some peaches that werent quite ripened and after 2 days they were ready to eat!!

Answer 6

The brown paper bag thing that other people have recommended works great...But the real reason I answered this question Is to ask you where you live that it is going to S--- tomorrow! Yahoo does not like profanity so I didn't write the word S---!

Answer 7

In a brown paper bag in the closet where it is dark

Answer 8

the paper bag thing works if you put in other fruit of any kind

Answer 9

set them in a window that the sun shines on

Answer 10

my mother used to set unripened veggies in the sun in the window sill when i was a kid. it works