Do outdoor tomatoes need to be brought in to ripen now?

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It has turned colder.
Tomatoes are outdoors, in London.
Is the weather too cold now for them to continue ripening outdoors?
I have some that are almost completely ripe, some that are starting to gain colour, some still green, but pale green now.

Shall I pick them all and bring them indoors and ripen in a paper bag?

I’d like to know this too. My crop is pitiful so far!

Mr too. I've had quite t a few tomatoes but there are almost the same again lef. I have started picking any that are pale red all over and letting them rippen in a bowl. This seems to work alright . I regularly take out the most ripe ones from the bowl and put them seperately to use , then replace those with pale red ones . . It has worked quite well so far but I now have quite a few left on plants in varying shades of green, yellowy green, orangey, pale red etc.

I did but off a shed load of leaves about 10 days ago and now lots seem to be going red all at once. Before it was 2-4 per plant Evey few days

We leave them on a window sill

Following as I have a glut of green tomatoes!

Bring them in, take as many leaves off as you dare and put them on a sunny windowsill. There's been a problem with tomatoes this year getting them to ripen due to the strange year and the light being 'in the wrong order' or something.

Apparently picking them, putting them in a drawer with a ripe banana can help them turn red.

Yes, bring them inside. It's the warmth that turns them red, the sunshine hardens the skin (so says Monty Don in the Daily Mail this morning.)

I'm at the "fuck it , green tomato chutney it is, then " stage

I'm picking any that even have the slightest blush and putting them in a paper bag with a banana. Seems to be working. Still have a number of Moneymaker that have gotten huge but are still resolutely green. Not sure how to tackle them - they are in the sunniest possible spot, against patio glass doors and still nothing. Sun is out but the wind is biting

I've just collected all the ones from the garden, mainly because they were starting to drop off the stem. I think because the plants had picked up an infection, but the tomatoes are mainly fine. I've separated them into ripe and still ripening too.
But I've got a healthy plant by the front door where the tomatoes are still ripening nicely, so I'm leaving those a little longer.

Does anyone have a good recipe to make them into tomato passata?

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Following as I have a glut of green tomatoes!

So do I

Green tomato passata?

Make some chutney with the green ones?

I’ve just stripped my plants and spread the green ones out on a plate with a slightly overripe banana.

Ok, thank you all.
So pick ALL our tomatoes now, whatever state they are in?

You don't have to do that. Just strip the leaves and see what happens. Mine are turning since I did that.

Weve brought all ours in today, but are several 100 miles north of London!

I've got loads on the plant but they are tiny.
Not sure what you do. Wait for them.to get bigger or just pick them?
Any advice?
Its really cold here now. I cant bring them in. No space.

I am in Surrey and will be leaving them out for another couple of weeks. I picked a bowl full of ripe ones today. Have removed all the lower leaves, and ones covering the fruit, and they are ripening well. Next week is going to be warmer again.

Monty recommends bringing them in by the end of September so I’m leaving mine until Wednesday.

Wrap them in newspaper and pop in the orangery or conservatory.
Lots of green tomato chutney for the cheeseboard on another thread.

These were orange but turned red on the windowsill. But there are green ones - might try the banana trick!

I’m so glad I stumbled upon this thread! We’ve accidentally grown tomatoes in our compost heap which are starting to ripen and I was wondering what to do with them 😁

I still have mine on the plant. Under cover in Scotland. We’ve had some glorious days and it was 23 in my greenhouse today. 2 at night though!

I’ve just read that once they start to change colour you should pick them, as they will ripen fine in a drawer. Green tomatoes won’t ripen though. If you pick the just orange ones then supposedly the green ones ripen faster.

No harm on leaving the green ones on the plant and seeing if they will start to ripen, at least until first frost.

Wrap them in newspaper and pop in the orangery or conservatory. well played, CP.

In the unlikely event that you have neither an orangery nor a conservatory (), a sunny windowsill, or table in the sun will do. It's so cold now that I've bought all my tomatoes in, and I have loads so they're dotted about everywhere with a ripe banana or a ripe apple in each tray.