Green Tomatoes

Hi GRANDPA BOB, I have a few green tomatoes at the moment so I shall do what you suggested so thanks for the information. Tamara

Oh wow I've never heard of this before but what a great idea. I was trying to figure out what to do with my green tomatoes when the time comes. I had seen a recipe for green tomato salsa and thought of trying that but I love the idea of saving them for fresh 'winter' tomatoes more. thanks tons for this tip.

Hey! That's great to know! Thanks. I've considered whether or not we can grow veggies indoors in the winter.. Maybe I just need to brush up on preserving..

Guess I will join you on that. I wish my peppers had produced a lot as well, but they did not. I got a recipe for a red spicy pepper jelly today. May surprise hubby with some tomorrow after work. It is great to have summer on hand in the form of left over harvest.

That is sooooo cool! I didn't know that but it's info worth sharing with a friend who has a very big garden! thanks bob!

hiGrandpa Bob Ihad forgotten about ripening greentomatoes,'yeah we used to do that too. And of course my mom always made a lot of what she called piccalli with greentomatoes too. all I knew was it tasted so good with meat of all kinds.You know here in sunny ca we are paying a premium for tomatoes, its sucha shame. we should have planted some in our patio now looks like we are going to have to move as soon as myson gets a job. rents going up one hundred dollars come Oct. we are behind on our rent so dont know whats going to happen, pray for us if you get a chance.

Yep we do that here to but not with tomatoes but with fruits that aren't ripe yet or ready to eat. Then we put it on top of the rice grains because it's warm sometimes we bury it inside then in a few days it will be all good and ready to eat.

I have never heard of that tip Grandpa, thank you very much for it. I will pass that one on to others too.

Woah, thank you very much..I wonder if this will also work with yellow pear tomoatoes? I am going to save this for later..Thnak you for sharing..

Wow, I had never heard that before. I will have to try that out if I have any still green out there in the next few weeks. Thanks for the tip.

Ha! I just put that in my answer to another of your discussions, but I didn't know that much! I will definitely do that because I think most of my tomatoes will be green when the frosts come. Thanks for filling in the info!

That's what my parents do. It's nice to eat your homegrown tomatoes year round. You clearly had a great harvest this year. Nice!

my dad always did this. our garage was 3/4 underground. much better than just hanging the plant upside down, too. do you ever make fried green tomatoes? they're heaven !

Wow, I didnt know that Grandpa Bob! Thank you for sharing! Of course we have a super long growing season here in the south and I usually have 2 different sets of tomatoes, one for spring and one for fall. You could always fry those green tomatoes! mmmmm mmmm good!!!

This won't work for me, Grandpa Bob, being the only cool dark place also happens to be very damp despite the fan going 24hrs. a day...my crawlspace, which my sump pump has been working hard at trying to keep the water out of with all the rain we got last week. Once it dries up some, we are going to have to go down there and remove all the wet cardboard that the builders put down when they were connecting everything after the house was set on the foundation. It's been pretty decent down there till this last rainfall of over 10 inches in 3 days. I've been washing and putting the ripe tomatoes in quart freezer bags to freeze instead. I just take one out whenever I want a tomato in a recipe and dice it when it's half-thawed.

really!! that's something new i learn to day grand pa.. and thanks to you!! i love tomatoes... and i especially love the green ones on my sandwich.. i also like red tomatoes in my baked shells..yumyum.. a new thing learned from a new friend found!! thanks and keep posting those informative tips..

Your tomato vines are beautiful! Ours are about gone, but probably from lack of rain here. And, not to say that our grandson was mowing down in the pasture where my husband has a few plants and he went around them, mowing most of them down! We thought he knew they were there. Lots of pretty green tomatoes gone! Glad you are going to have lots to store for the winter.