Lack of ripe tomatoes

[Primrose]

I always raise a smile when I read recommendations to ripen your tomatoes off by "putting them in a drawer". Does ANYBODY ever have an empty drawer in their house to put tomatoes in? Ours are always crammed full with all kinds of stuff. But I suppose the idea is to put them in any kind of sealed container and jumbo plastic storage boxes with lids would work equally well?

[Chantal]

My tomatoes were slow to start ripening but over the past week I've been inundated with them, both from the allotment and the greenhouse.

I have a tomato preserving weekend planned as rain is forecast, at last.