Help! Its one week away until our annual village horticultural show and my greenhouse tomatoes (moneymaker) are still green! I suppose its too late now for them to ripen in time for the show bench? Has anyone got any miracle ideas?
Thanks
Helen
Help! Tomatoes not ripening
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As I presume you will want to show them with fresh green stalks I imagine you won't want to remove them from the plants. Last week-end I picked a few underripe tomatoes, put them on a tray of newspaper and moved them around the garden to follow the sun and catch a full day of 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.sunshine. They ripened very quickly in 24 hours.
I don't know whether wrapping specific plants (or specific bunches) around with newspaper overnight would help retain a little heat and help your tomatoes ripen. What we all need, of course, is lots of sunshine, and I don't think we're going to get it!
I don't know whether wrapping specific plants (or specific bunches) around with newspaper overnight would help retain a little heat and help your tomatoes ripen. What we all need, of course, is lots of sunshine, and I don't think we're going to get it!