What to do when your tomato plants are full of green tomatoes at the end of the growing season? Fried green tomatoes? Try to ripen them?My choice is to try to ripen the tomatoes. Everyone has a different method; place on window sill or in a paper bag. Tomatoes naturally generate ethylene gas causing the fruit to turn red. Companies lock green tomatoes in a chamber full of ethylene gas to make the tomatoes red. Although the tomato turns red, it doesn’t necessarily mean the tomato is ripe.
A slightly more advanced method may be using a piece of fruit to generate ethylene gas. Adding an apple or banana to a box filled with tomatoes. Both the apple and banana generate ethylene gas, the bananas are more productive of the two.
Whatever method is used to turn the tomatos red, first carefully wash and dry tomatoes in clean water. discard tomatoes showing signs of decay or mold.
Select a banana with green ends to add to a clean cardboard box lined with a paper towel.
Fold paper towel over the banana and Add tomatoes to box using newspaper to prevent contact between tomatoes.
Almost done!
Fold box closed and top with a newspaper. Wait and see…
After 5 days, some progress with tomato color changing!
