Outrageous amount of Green tomatoes

mschaef 10/2/2013, 6:29 pm

We are getting our first snow fall tomorrow so I went out today and pick everything. Now I have green tomatoes everywhere. My kitchen and table are covered. Does anyone have any great ideas on how to uses/ store them? I can only handle some many fried green tomatoes and dont have the space to allow them to turn red on the counters. Any ideas/ thoughts would be great, thanks!

cheyannarach 10/2/2013, 6:34 pm

Someone here, I think Turan, makes green tomato salsa!!

CapeCoddess 10/2/2013, 7:01 pm

Someone on here mentioned putting them single layer in a box under the bed to ripen.
I think I'd mark my calendar to remind me to check on them. Wink

CC

**donnainzone5** 10/2/2013, 7:14 pm

Likewise, I recently picked about three gallons of mostly green tomatoes. I plan to ripen some of the smaller and less numerous ones, like Beefmaster, inside on a counter top. I think the rest will go into paper bags, along with companion bananas. The Stupice still has a few nearly ripe on the vine.

Marc Iverson 10/2/2013, 8:29 pm

Let us know if you find especially good recipes! I'm new to green tomatoes, but found out I like 'em!

Went out to the garden today and found some green tomatoes had been blown off their vines, so I picked them up and brought them in. I still have dozens of greenies on my plants.

**sanderson** 10/2/2013, 10:23 pm

Donna and Marc, The amount of tomatoes that you have just boggles my mind. I picked all remaining green tomatoes and they filled a small bowl!! Embarassed

audrey.jeanne.roberts 10/2/2013, 10:50 pm

Last January I had 3 roma tomato plants in my makeshift hoop house that finally were dieing so I picked all the green tomatoes I could find that weren't diseased or damaged. I left a few I wasn't sure about and discovered that if they aren't perfect don't put them in storage, they WILL go bad.

I gently cleaned them, and layered them in a box that I put in the fridge. I pulled out a few at a time to ripen on my kitchen window sill and had tomatoes until around the middle of March if I remember correctly.

I had 3 boxes worth, so I put some in my garage and they didn't do well. I think it might have gotten too cold out there.

This year my tomatoes are still loaded. I have Roma with a final small crop, larger tomatoes that are throw backs from hybrid seeds (volunteers) and they have tons of green toms right now and then I have 2 types of cherry toms that are loaded as well.

**donnainzone5** 10/2/2013, 10:52 pm

Well, I DID have six tomato plants.... One of which, the Beefmaster, I started from seed. It produced very few tomatoes. The Stupice and Cherokee Purple were the most productive, although the Champion, Costoluto Genovese, and Arkansas Traveler did better than expected.

Next year, I swear I'll get all the summer crops in the first week in June! That is, if it looks like we'll HAVE a summer.

**walshevak** 10/3/2013, 9:48 am

Green tomato dill refrigerator pickles using quartered regular tomatoes. I have also used a regular dill pickle recipe and pouring the boiling brine over green cherry tomatoes and a 10 minute water bath per quart. Try green tomato chutney canned with a water bath. Chutney is great with crackers and cheddar cheese. I have 1 jar left. I found the recipes online and forgot to bookmark them.

I did find tastiest dill cherry tomatoes were the ones that had started to turn from dark green to light green. Color doesn't matter in the chutney.

Green tomatoes make a great addition to an oriental stir fry.

Kay

mschaef 10/3/2013, 10:19 am

Thanks all, I know what Ill be doing for a few days... Shocked

TxGramma 10/3/2013, 10:37 am

I wish I had your problem! There are lots of ways to use green tomatoes. I love fried green tomatoes and pickled green tomatoes. If you go to this link, Search - Green Tomatoes SB Canning , you will find a variety of canning recipes to use up all of those green tomatoes including a way to can them so that you can have fried green tomatoes later. I can't wait to have this problem so that I can use these recipes.

plantoid 10/3/2013, 9:00 pm

You can only have so many green tomato products , I had three 24 x 16 inch plastic trays of green toms to sort out .

So I graded them in colour and left them in our bedroom on the dresser by the window which face north . No tomatoes to touch another or they quickly go rotten if slightly damaged /bruised .

A few of the riper ones were kitchen window cill'ed where it gets sun form 09.00 to 16.00 .

The gentle heat in the bungalow turned some ten pounds of the green toms on tray's red in a matter of 5 days or so , these are the ones I've just canned . Each day I carefully turned the green bits towards the day light to get an even redness developing.

There is about another four pounds of green tomatoes left .I hope to make a green tomato & apple chutney with them tomorrow .

mschaef 10/3/2013, 9:59 pm

Well 5 lbs of green tomatoes used with some red tomatoes for homemade pasta sauce. Another 5 lbs given to friends. Now I have 20 more lbs to fried and can up. Thinking about pickling some and making up some chutney too. Going to the store to get more jars tomorrow.
Plantoid may I have your green tomato and apple chutney recipe please it sounds yummy

Marc Iverson 10/4/2013, 1:20 am

plantoid wrote:
There is about another four pounds of green tomatoes left .I hope to make a green tomato & apple chutney with them tomorrow .

That sounds pretty interesting. What do you spread it on? And can you share the recipe?

plantoid 10/4/2013, 7:25 am

The recipe is in here under apple chutney
http://www.sbcanning.com/search?q=Green+Tomatoes

We don't spread it on things per se but put a dollop on the plate beside cold meat or fish and have a bit of it with each fork full of flesh .
It's also nice in a similar manner when you have a leafy salad , ripe toms slice ,crunch light yellow/green celery stick raw onions and a strong hard white cheese ( or the cheese of your preference ) aka traditional ploughman's lunch or pork pie , haslet or salami
Add a bit of sweet pickled red cabbage and your in your seventh heaven

We also have it with crisp crunchy cheese crackers and Philadelphia cream cheese with a few chopped chives .
IE creamed cracker with cheese & chopped chive and a pimple of chutney on top .. white dry wine or a sweet fine herb wine in accompaniment or a thick syrupy black current/ black berry liqueur .. also good with Jagermeister & crunchy celery .

ilvalleygal 10/4/2013, 10:50 am

I have some of those plastic drawer/shelf things that I used for last year's green tomatoes. I put them in a single layer in the plastic drawers and covered the top with a layer of newspaper. The cart/shelf thing then sat near the washer in the basement so I could check on the tomatoes.

Most of the tomatoes slowly ripened in the drawers with a few that I didn't catch right away. Those went to compost. The ripened ones worked fine in sauces.

**sanderson** 10/4/2013, 1:28 pm

Plantoid, I must eat breakfast before I read your replies! drooling

Marc Iverson 10/4/2013, 3:12 pm

Well, that's LOTS of ideas -- thanks plantoid!

I just thought of a question, though -- I don't can, and wonder if you would change the recipe in any way if you were going to eat some of the chutney fresh(or after letting it sit a few days) and just freeze the rest? Maybe in small snack-size portions, or even in ice cube trays?

plantoid 10/4/2013, 7:50 pm

Eat fresh ....... in open jars will keep in a decent cold fridge @3 oC for a fortnight .

Don't know about freezing it .
Perhaps Google /Wikki .. " Can you freeze green tomato and apple chutney " .... or similar see what it says and use a bit of common sense when reading the replies.

Marc Iverson 10/4/2013, 10:02 pm

Thanks!

I really hate the idea of pulling up tomato vines early, but we're having so much rain that almost all my medium-size and larger tomatoes are splitting. Maybe it's best to pick them just so they don't keep getting ruined and forcing me to throw them away.

plantoid 10/5/2013, 6:24 am

When I was a kid in the mid 1950's mum used to make her chutneys and put them in simple warmed glass jars , slipping a disc of grease proof paper directly onto the top of the chutney and then holding a cellophane clear disc over the jar with an elastic band .

These would be made at apple fall time and we'd still be eating it at Easter .

I can't remember much more about it other than some times there was date and apple chutney and thick sugar heavy jam without the vinegar as the main preservative

mschaef 10/6/2013, 11:51 am

Man yesterday was a long day but I have goodies to show for it!! weeee

I canned up 3 pint jars of orange tomatoes sauce using what little red, orange, and yellow tomatoes I had with green ones. 4 pint jars of green tomatoes sauce. 5 pint jars of sliced green tomatoes in a pickling solution for fried green tomatoes later. And 6 jar of green tomato chutney. Seem to have misplaced the camera or I would post a picture. And I still have about 5 lbs of green tomatoes left. affraid

**walshevak** 10/6/2013, 4:26 pm

Yahoo!!!!! Congrats.

Kay

**jimmy cee** 10/6/2013, 10:16 pm

My wife swears by wrapping each tomato in a sheet of newspaper.
Then just storing it somewhere till needed.
I've seen her take red tomatoes out of the wrap.
Sorry I only grow them, she does the rest while I.... Outrageous amount of Green tomatoes 3170584802

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Ginger Blue 10/10/2016, 7:47 pm

Reconstituting another "oldie, but goodie" thread for the benefit of novices like me, who may find the info helpful...

In anticipation of first frost, today I harvested a shopping bag full of green cherry tomatoes - without a clue of what to do with them. This thread, along with the following article I found online, have given me some ideas to work with.

http://inmykitchengarden.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-ripen-green-tomatoes-indoors.html

Thanks, all!

GB

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