Comments on: Comparing 12 Tomato Varieties https://forksinthedirt.com/comparing-12-tomato-varieties/ Crossing Paths with Farmers, Food and Doing Good Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:18:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michelle Bruhn https://forksinthedirt.com/comparing-12-tomato-varieties/#comment-2104 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:11:26 +0000 https://forksinthedirt.com/?p=9244#comment-2104 In reply to Chic Fitts.

Hey Chic, thanks for your note, I’ve done that ripening method before, but just cutting vines at the soil level and had continually ripening tomatoes until December in Minnesota. But really, we’re so happy with out harvests for the year and have so much canned that we’ll likely pick them green and lay them out to ripen a bit more, but I love making fermented green tomato salsa too… just started more cilantro for that recipe! Happy gardening!
Michelle

]]> By: Chic Fitts https://forksinthedirt.com/comparing-12-tomato-varieties/#comment-2103 Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:03:26 +0000 https://forksinthedirt.com/?p=9244#comment-2103 You sound like you have tomatoes on the bush that won’t ripen before the first frost. I used to veg garden in Missoula, and every year I’d lose lots of pounds of tomatoes that way. Then I read: fruit ready to ripen has all the ingredients on board to finish –> so I’d uproot the 6′ bushes, trying not to shake off the remaining fruit, and take them one by one to the cellar and hang them upside down –> pick tomatoes until nearly Christmas. Of course: everything gets drier and drier (particularly ripening fruit, so the last ones are pretty dried up; and in truth, the ripening process seems to go better, tastier, sweeter, etc., with an intact and functioning root and branch system (not really surprising). Then you can add the bushes to your compost rounds. It works, you’ll have “fresh” tomatoes for your fall soups, and it’s fun. Long as your cellar doesn’t freeze.

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