Do you have lots of green tomatoes on your vines? Are you afraid you won’t get to see them ripen or get to use them before it turns cold? It is likely that we will soon have a killing freeze in our ...
At the end of the season, as weather temps grow colder, it can be hard to get those green tomatoes to turn red. Fortunately, avid gardener Simon Akeroyd has a simple trick for getting them to turn red ...
As we head deeper into September, many gardeners grow frustrated as their tomato plants still cling to clusters of green fruit that haven't had time to ripen. With the first frost approaching, cooler ...
If you’re a gardening aficionado, you know the delight of picking your own fresh and juicy tomatoes. But what do you do when you have more tomatoes than you can handle? How do you ripen the green ones ...
Once established, tomato plants can continue to grow and ripen fruit throughout the growing season. How long they'll continue to produce mostly depends on the variety, climate, and care they receive ...
CORVALLIS — Autumn frosts can turn your green tomatoes that are still on the vine to mush. But, if you pick them before frosts or heavy rain hit them, many will ripen off the vine. “You can tell when ...
At first glance, green tomatoes can be a bit confusing -- aren't they just red tomatoes that haven't yet ripened? Sometimes, but there are actually two distinct categories in which you can place green ...
The latest cold snap that brought an early freeze to our area may have left you with frosted tomato plants. Maybe you took precautions, picked your green tomatoes and now have a supply sitting in your ...
It can be hard to judge exactly when to pull tomatoes out of the garden in fall, especially if your plants still have a few green tomatoes left on the vine. However, disposing of old tomato plants ...
There are plenty of recipes for using ripe tomatoes, but what do you do with a bunch of green tomatoes at the end of the season, as frost and freeze ...