my tomatoes lasted until mid novemeber last year and were still loaded with green tomatoes. Cut them all off when frost was coming and put them in cardboard boxes. Had tomatoes until i was starting more after christmas haha
Your videos are very informative and simple to understand and follow, especially for the newbies. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us! Blessings to you and your family from Tennessee.
Like the shade cloth. In South Florida we plant in the fall and start picking in January. We are done by April 15th. Too hot to grow tomatoes after that. Speckling on your tomatoes is mildew issue.
Yes, thank you. Very helpful. Also am in East Texas. Was just out in the garden this morning looking at my tomatoes and debating whether to pick or not. Very timely and needed video. Thank you
This is great information. This our 3rd yr growing tomatoes and this year it hasn’t been as successful as the past. We have had to pick them early and put in the windows. This method has given us a few good tomatoes. The heat and bugs have been really detrimental. Thanks for sharing.
SE Virginia here. I pick mine when they show decent color. Yellow to orange, they're coming in. The birds n bugs will devastate them if I leave them to ripen on the vine.
Green tomatoes also have some great qualities. Of course they can be fried but they can also be roasted or grilled. We pick several every week to cut in half and grill. Outstanding flavor!
For all your those really green tomatoes, they are great to make relish!!!! It can be any kind, sweet relish, dill relish, spicy relish, mixed with other vegetables for a relish. Also green salsa and a whole host of things ! I guess they can be pickled but I haven’t done that 🤷🏼♀️ Blessings
Gray wall is mottled or splotchy fruit check the soil and balance fertilizer. I wrap my green tomato’s in news paper and place them in a cardboard flat store them in my cool pantry. Tomato’s until Christmas.
Not sure if it works in your area.. I had bugs and slugs on my plants and I used 8 parts water to 1 part Hydrogen peroxide and a light spray takes them out without harming the plant. 👍
I’m also in East Texas and with all these torrential rains, should I go ahead and pick green tomatoes to keep them from cracking? They are on a raised bed. I have many Romas, some Rutgers and Purple Cherokee that have green tomatoes.
Green tomatoes need to have a blush shoulder to have reduced poisons that the leaves have in them. You can make fried green tomatoes when the shoulder is blushed. You can also make mincemeat pie with those tomatoes. Not the solid green tomatoes.
Texas has been a boiling pot for me. No rain, high temps, just miserable! I’ve pulled all my summer crops. Okra, peppers, sweet potatoes are all that’s left. It’s hot dry and miserable! Blessings!
It is hot but try to look at this like a blessing. You have learned what will grow in this heat. I am going to be making a video soon about the best veggies for a hot summer. I just finished a video on runner beans/cowpeas that love the heat. Melons, squash, okra, eggplant, peppers, beans, sorghum (for grain or syrup), sweet potatoes, etc. There is a lot.
You don't need to waste "leftover green tomatoes" at season end, they ripen the same as any tomato. I'm in Northern Maine and I have to pick everything in the garden the day before the first frost. Often I make at least 3 dozen cans of salsa. The tomatoes ripen just like any. You can look up how to do it.
Great reporting! I also grow tomatoes and like to freeze them! Any help on how to do that? By the way, this is the first year I am using shade cloth!!! Works great! I don’t have the funds to get a freeze dryer, just not in the budget. :(
Thanks for the video man. A cheap pesticide is to find someone who smokes cigarettes. Get their butts and soak them in water for 24 hours. Use a coffee filter to drain the nicotine water into a container that you can spray your plants, fruits and vegetables (it works for trees too). One bite and the bugs die of an overdose of nicotine. Then simply wash your fruits and vegetables before consumption. I’ve been using this solution for years in my garden and my small orchard
I appreciate the suggestion but I would not use that at all. Nicotine is a drug and it can leach through skin. There is no way I would put that on my plants just to keep off a few bugs.
Great comment! Yes it is effective. Using nicotine in this way is an ancient and effective form of pest control going back to Egypt. I find it interesting it was referred to it as a drug and yet folks are willing to use poisonous pesticides as if that were somehow more acceptable. 😂
We have ours in the window, ripening, but we're struggling with a crazy ant problem, embedding themselves in the ripening tomatoes, & they even have Xtra tough skin, from the heat I guess? Ants still get inside the tomato 💔???? Any suggestions?🤔
my tomatoes lasted until mid novemeber last year and were still loaded with green tomatoes. Cut them all off when frost was coming and put them in cardboard boxes. Had tomatoes until i was starting more after christmas haha
Glad to see that there are a couple of yourubers pointing out pre-ripe harvesting.
Your videos are very informative and simple to understand and follow, especially for the newbies. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us! Blessings to you and your family from Tennessee.
Thank you. God bless you too.
Like the shade cloth. In South Florida we plant in the fall and start picking in January. We are done by April 15th. Too hot to grow tomatoes after that. Speckling on your tomatoes is mildew issue.
Great info, thank you!! I did not realize the hit temp could literally double the days to ripen. Thanks so much!!
You're welcome. Yep, in the right temp and conditions, they will take forever.
Yes, thank you. Very helpful. Also am in East Texas. Was just out in the garden this morning looking at my tomatoes and debating whether to pick or not. Very timely and needed video. Thank you
Glad it was helpful
Great information! Thank you and a blessed day to you and your family.
You’re welcome. Blessings
This is great information. This our 3rd yr growing tomatoes and this year it hasn’t been as successful as the past. We have had to pick them early and put in the windows. This method has given us a few good tomatoes. The heat and bugs have been really detrimental. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful.
SE Virginia here. I pick mine when they show decent color. Yellow to orange, they're coming in. The birds n bugs will devastate them if I leave them to ripen on the vine.
Green tomatoes also have some great qualities. Of course they can be fried but they can also be roasted or grilled. We pick several every week to cut in half and grill. Outstanding flavor!
Absolutely
Dried green tomatoes go well if you do your own herbs.. But not to green, then they can get bitter.. ❤️❤️❤️
I often pick them when they are yellow or orange and put them in bowl and cover them with a dish towel. 5-6 days later they are usually fully ripe.
Great tip. I have issues with cracking after a heavy rain, I'll give this a try.
You can pick the green ones too.. I live in north Sweden, and we sometimes doesn’t have the time to wait for riped tomatoes.. 😊
Great info!! And short and sweet just how I like them.😁
Thanks
For all your those really green tomatoes, they are great to make relish!!!!
It can be any kind, sweet relish, dill relish, spicy relish, mixed with other vegetables for a relish.
Also green salsa and a whole host of things !
I guess they can be pickled but I haven’t done that 🤷🏼♀️
Blessings
Above 85 below 50 both bad, low and behold September in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is giving us both at the same time 😂
I’m in the UK, so excessive heat shouldn’t be a problem.
Gray wall is mottled or splotchy fruit check the soil and balance fertilizer. I wrap my green tomato’s in news paper and place them in a cardboard flat store them in my cool pantry. Tomato’s until Christmas.
I do the same here in buggy florida. I am constantly slappy those stink bug into a soapy water solution hoping for less stink bugs next year.
They are everywhere
Thank you. I am having terrible stink bug problems also had some horn worms. It’s been hot and VERY dry.
You're welcome. Yes, it is surely a battle this summer.
Not sure if it works in your area.. I had bugs and slugs on my plants and I used 8 parts water to 1 part Hydrogen peroxide and a light spray takes them out without harming the plant. 👍
Thank you for this Video. I just learned something new!
You’re welcome
Great video helped me grow my tomatos
Glad I could help
Not all varieties are compatible with early picking ... sun gold for example, which start to soften and liquify after just a few days from picking.
Oh my! All of mine are green! Now I know why...and developing NEW ones has slowed down drastically
They sure slow down a lot.
Thank you sir!
You’re welcome
I’m also in East Texas and with all these torrential rains, should I go ahead and pick green tomatoes to keep them from cracking? They are on a raised bed. I have many Romas, some Rutgers and Purple Cherokee that have green tomatoes.
You can pick them if they have a little yellow on them. The rain will hopefully subside soon.
Green tomatoes need to have a blush shoulder to have reduced poisons that the leaves have in them.
You can make fried green tomatoes when the shoulder is blushed. You can also make mincemeat pie with those tomatoes. Not the solid green tomatoes.
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Hi from Michigan so Mr Green and white did you go to state if so what did you major in?
I did. Food Industry Management and Agricultural Economics ‘99. College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Go State!
Great vid. Yes, very helpful.
Thank you
Texas has been a boiling pot for me. No rain, high temps, just miserable!
I’ve pulled all my summer crops. Okra, peppers, sweet potatoes are all that’s left.
It’s hot dry and miserable!
Blessings!
It is hot but try to look at this like a blessing. You have learned what will grow in this heat. I am going to be making a video soon about the best veggies for a hot summer. I just finished a video on runner beans/cowpeas that love the heat. Melons, squash, okra, eggplant, peppers, beans, sorghum (for grain or syrup), sweet potatoes, etc. There is a lot.
Bro you said East Texas and that's where I am at so you got a subscriber.
Awesome!
I had some fall off and they are currently sitting outside. Anything I should do for them to ripen?
As I mentioned, if they have a little yellow on them, you can bring them in and sit them on a windowsill to ripen for a few days.
Hello,
Have you ever pickled leftover green tomatoes when summer is over?
No. I don’t think I have ever eaten a pickled tomato.
You don't need to waste "leftover green tomatoes" at season end, they ripen the same as any tomato. I'm in Northern Maine and I have to pick everything in the garden the day before the first frost. Often I make at least 3 dozen cans of salsa. The tomatoes ripen just like any. You can look up how to do it.
A Spartan in East Texas!
Go Green!
How does ripening off the vine affect the taste?
No difference that i can detect.
Great reporting! I also grow tomatoes and like to freeze them! Any help on how to do that? By the way, this is the first year I am using shade cloth!!! Works great! I don’t have the funds to get a freeze dryer, just not in the budget. :(
Thanks. Sure. We did a video on freezing and canning tomatoes here.....ruclips.net/video/mWlO4KKOCr8/видео.html
Thanks for the video man.
A cheap pesticide is to find someone who smokes cigarettes. Get their butts and soak them in water for 24 hours. Use a coffee filter to drain the nicotine water into a container that you can spray your plants, fruits and vegetables (it works for trees too).
One bite and the bugs die of an overdose of nicotine.
Then simply wash your fruits and vegetables before consumption.
I’ve been using this solution for years in my garden and my small orchard
I appreciate the suggestion but I would not use that at all. Nicotine is a drug and it can leach through skin. There is no way I would put that on my plants just to keep off a few bugs.
Great comment! Yes it is effective.
Using nicotine in this way is an ancient and effective form of pest control going back to Egypt.
I find it interesting it was referred to it as a drug and yet folks are willing to use poisonous pesticides as if that were somehow more acceptable. 😂
too
We have ours in the window, ripening, but we're struggling with a crazy ant problem, embedding themselves in the ripening tomatoes, & they even have Xtra tough skin, from the heat I guess? Ants still get inside the tomato 💔???? Any suggestions?🤔
That is an interesting problem. Ours get a little hornworm damage and then the ants get in that way. No tough skin though.
GO SPARTANS!!!!
Go Green!
I pick mine early due to birds and my chickens will try to get the ripe fruit!
Luckily I’ve never had a bird problem.
So picking them in that real green stage , they won’t ripen ?
Correct
a spartan in Texas
Go Green!
Not at all. Pick them when they are orange colored.
Incorrect