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Last year, before we ourselves were on the
Farm Crawl, I was talking with Jill at Blue Gate about keeping green tomatoes to ripen after the growing season. I didn't get a chance to last year, but this year I picked every single green tomato before the heavy frost came. I brought them in the house and set them in a sunny window. You can keep them out of the sun in a cooler area, bringing them out to ripen as you want them, but I wanted to ripen them quickly to can some more sauce.
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| Marzano Sauce Tomatoes |
As you can see, they are ripening at different speeds. I've been sorting them as they change colors, and today I sliced up all my red ones - about 3+ gallons worth (that were once green), and am ready to run them through my Champion Juicer and make some spaghetti sauce. It's been fun to watch them ripen, great to have more to can, and wonderful to still have some home grown tomatoes for sandwiches and tacos!
Maybe next year I'll put some green ones in the cellar and see just how long into winter I can pull out tomatoes for our own home grown tomatoes.
2 comments:
I have always heard this too and this year I had the green tomatoes to try it. It worked! We had a couple of tomatoes at Thanksgiving and 2 for Christmas Dinner. I have 3 left. 2 will make it but the 3rd is still green. I'm not sure on that one. They aren't as good as vine ripened but still better than store bought here in Southern Iowa. How did yours do?
had our last tomatoes and the last BLT for the 2011 gardening season this past Monday. That's a record for us.
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