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Post by handmaid on Jan 14, 2021 14:19:34 GMT -6
So this year I decided to try keeping our green tomatoes in the cool basement to see how long they would last. I put them on a single layer of a long cardboard box, making sure most of them still had stems attached. Then I put a layer of newspaper over them. And I put on a circular fan to try to keep the cooler air circulating about them. These were a combination of yellow and red cherry tomatoes, paste tomatoes, and slicing tomatoes. We were able to eat them reasonably fresh until about mid November. The slicing tomatoes seemed to be the most likely to ripen quicy and go to rot fast. Next were the paste tomatoes. I did not do a good job of consistently checking on them, and many had to be thrown out. All this goes to say is that this week we will be finishing up the remaining fresh tomatoes.
The best ones were the red and yellow cherries, believe it or not. Cherokee Purples rotted so fast it was shocking. Amish Paste didnt last too long. Overall I think I will do this again. Here it is, mid-January, and we are only now thinnking about buying tomatoes.
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Post by jonathco on Jan 15, 2021 9:57:25 GMT -6
Wow, this is fantastic. I may have to try this in the fall!
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Post by momof6 on Jan 15, 2021 20:43:57 GMT -6
That is a fantastic idea. I placed some of my green ones in the window to ripen and some did- but some rotted before they ripened. A friend of mine places his in a brown sack in the basement and swears by it- but I'm of the mindset out of sight out of mind- they would rot for sure down there in a bag for me.
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Post by handmaid on Jan 17, 2021 15:42:06 GMT -6
That is a fantastic idea. I placed some of my green ones in the window to ripen and some did- but some rotted before they ripened. A friend of mine places his in a brown sack in the basement and swears by it- but I'm of the mindset out of sight out of mind- they would rot for sure down there in a bag for me. That is part of why so many of mine went bad. I forgot to check them or got too busy with other things. On the flip side, what lasted were great!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2021 6:43:08 GMT -6
So this year I decided to try keeping our green tomatoes in the cool basement to see how long they would last. I put them on a single layer of a long cardboard box, making sure most of them still had stems attached. Then I put a layer of newspaper over them. And I put on a circular fan to try to keep the cooler air circulating about them. These were a combination of yellow and red cherry tomatoes, paste tomatoes, and slicing tomatoes. We were able to eat them reasonably fresh until about mid November. The slicing tomatoes seemed to be the most likely to ripen quicy and go to rot fast. Next were the paste tomatoes. I did not do a good job of consistently checking on them, and many had to be thrown out. All this goes to say is that this week we will be finishing up the remaining fresh tomatoes. The best ones were the red and yellow cherries, believe it or not. Cherokee Purples rotted so fast it was shocking. Amish Paste didnt last too long. Overall I think I will do this again. Here it is, mid-January, and we are only now thinnking about buying tomatoes. Growing up, we individually wrapped our green tomatoes in newspaper during late fall and stored them wrapped in a cardboard box under a bed. We were able to keep a good watch on them this way and pull them before they began turning, for use throughout winter. A turning tomato was placed in a sunny window seal and the tomato rotated, when possible, to ripen. A bad tomato was removed immediately to protect the others from ruining from acid.
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