Tomatoes Are Still Green
I think it is officially time to call the end of my outdoor gardening season. All those green tomatoes still on the vine will soon find their way to the recycle bag and mulch at the back of the property. I still have over five dozen green luscious tomatoes on the vine and since I don't care for green tomatoes too much, I have no clue what else to do with them.
Herbs Have Stopped Growing
My mint, chamomile, lemon balm, sage... and more, have all slowed in their production in the front yard herb garden. Luckily I had started my indoor winter garden weeks ago and the herbs I have inside are flourishing and growing. I'm hoping to have a good update within the next week.
I guess I'll let what's still outside go to seed and re-produce for next season. (sigh)
I sure am going to miss spending time out there trimming, talking to and harvesting all those fresh herbs.
Weekend Update & A Fun Picture
- Made a huge pit of chili from my freshly canned chili sauce
- Stayed indoors as it rained non-stop Friday afternoon until Sunday evening (felt like we should be building an ark)
- Did tons of paperwork and got desk/budget/spreadsheet in order
- Caught up on all indoor chores & laundry
- Re-organized office bookshelf & odds 'n ends
- Watched some college football
- Made more cold infused oils
- plotted out my errands/week/chore list
And then there is this...
Come join the homestead slack community and have fun chatting with us- click picture below.
Have a good one.
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Earlier today I threw away (well, added to the compost pile! :) ) some tomatoes that had been green, which we were trying to ripen in a paper bag. Perhaps they were "way too green" to start with? A vine fell over and snapped, so I tried to rescue them. But these got all leathery as they turned red, and although I sliced off a tiny bit and tried a bite, I had to spit it out as the texture just wasn't right.
But the paper bag trick works great for the grape and cherry tomatoes that get knocked off the vines too early!
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I have never heard of the 'paper bag' trick. I have a few large paper bags - maybe I'll give this a go.
I'd like to have some fresh tomatoes for a few more weeks; as I just bought five pounds of thick sliced bacon at the local meat market.
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My dad taught me it, this year. We have a "lunch bag" sized paper bag which we've been keeping the fallen in. A week or so and they're ripened!
But the ones from the snapped vine didn't make it, which makes some sense; they were very, very young.
Last year we ripened them in a window, and that worked quite well. I have a feeling the paper bag works better; it has something to do with the outgassing that they do being helpful for ripening, so trapping that outgassing is what makes them ripen faster.
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pick the green tomatoes and let them ripen in the house over the next days or weeks :-) Whenever I have too many I make a green-tomato-chutney - really tasty! Cheers from the Seven Mountains in Germany
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Yeah, try this. Most of them should rippen in a cool dark place.
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I am planning to pick the green ones tomorrow. Thnx!
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Can you share that recipe?
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Good morning @goldendawne, I left a comment last night (12 hours ago), but it never went out of the loading....loop so I logged out and went to bed... For the recipe I use green tomatoes, onions and apples - I will have some time around noon to translate my German recipe for you!!
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while STEEMit was down most of my day, I just did the Chutney and thus can give your a recipe step by step style :-) hoping the link will work... https://steemit.com/homesteading/@jkiw/chutney-with-green-tomatoes-onions-and-apples-chutney-aus-gruenen-tomaten-zwiebeln-und-aepfeln
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Just a suggestion for the green tomatos. I tried to pickle them but they didn't come out that well. I blame it on my pickling solution not the tomatos. Since your tomatos are much larger than mine were, you can probably make fried green tomatos. Just an idea. Nice garden looking forward to next seasons garden. Thanks for post.
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lol- funny you should mention next year's garden,a s I already have it plotted out. Maybe make a few tweaks between now and March... but I am ready to go!
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You know the saying, if at first you don't succeed.....
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Been wondering what to do with all of my green tomatoes hanging from frost damaged vines. Might can up a couple dozen quarts of green tomato salsa!
http://www.healthycanning.com/green-tomato-salsa/
The rest are fodder for my compost pile.
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