Comments on: The Great Green Tomato Rescue

By: wendy Y.

wendy Y. — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:12:56 +0000

Hey Bentley,

It has been a long time since my last question to you………something interesting happened in my worm bin.. just the other day I discovered a collection of “black bean shapped” cluster on the top of the worm compost…..when I picked up a hand full and smashed it to see what was inside I was amazed to find something wiggling like a larve or some thing… any idea as to what it may be?

the clusters look just like black beans…same color and shape however these are soft as opposesed to the beans which are hard on the surface

are they dagerous to my worms? If some I will compeaty replace my bin

since my purchase from you in may…. my worm count has grown into two wooden containers……learning alot from you websit
I actually witnessed a worm hatching from the coccooon…..

although I am not sure of what I am going to do for the winter….not sure if I am going to move them inside….I have very little space to spare

always looking forward to reading your website
warm regards,

Wendy Y
New Jersey

By: Verlene

Verlene — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:57:04 +0000

Veggie chili? Yum! You must be a vegetarian.

Doctor Oz had a shocking segment on his show today about worms that
can enter humans, then continue to live and grow inside their hosts. One
of his guests had a worm in her brain, which was removed, and she lived
to tell her story. They say to make sure your meat is well cooked. Worms
are not the only problem with meat. There’s a long list of diseases and
chemicals, drugs, hormones, mercury, lead etc. etc. It’s just not worth it!

By: Bentley

Bentley — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:55:10 +0000

BOB – sorry to disappoint, but one thing I’ve learned about owning multiple websites is that it is better to put most of your energy on just one site than to spread yourself too thin! While, the topic of this post may have made it a bit more appropriate for CG, the tomato garden (and disease issues) have been discussed here, in my last trench update – so I figured it would make more sense to write about it here.

Don’t worry – I’m not giving up on CG (that’s my nickname after all!), and I do appreciate the reminder about keeping things going over there!
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As for everyone else – WOW, thanks for all the great suggestions! I only have a small quantity of unfrozen tomatoes left now (and many of them have ripened out in the bucket), but I will certainly keep your tips in mind for next time.

Kim – you are right about fried green tomatoes as well! I love them!

Also appreciate the other green tomato recipe ideas!
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By: Eve

Eve — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:35:08 +0000

Mom used to make green tomato sweet relish and green tomato jam. Mom wouldn’t ever tell people what kind of jam it was, would make them guess. No one ever guessed tomato.

You can easly store home grown green tomatoes, just like the cold storage tomatoes you find at the market in winter. The store bought tomatoes are picked green and stored in cold storage buildings. Cases are removed from cold storage throughout the winter to ripen up for the markets.

Kim from Milwaukee gave you one good method for storage.

We used a slightly different version of the same method. The tomatoes were placed in shallow cardboard containers with a covering of newspapers. That way we could just lift the paper up and look to see if any were starting to ripen up.

By: Jayefuu

Jayefuu — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:06:44 +0000

@ Kim from Milwaukee

Thanks for posting the link to my green tomato chutney recipe! It really is a GREAT way to use up and preserve excess green tomatoes. Mine too were planted far too close together and the weather wasn’t great for them this year.

@Bentley

Although I didn’t have as many as you Bentley, after picking I had about 5kg of toms which made about 14 jars. Plenty of chutney to keep me going! (If you’d like to add a link to my instructable I’d be greatfull)

James

By: catherine

catherine — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:39:15 +0000

Hi Bentley- try putting some of your tomatoes in a paper bag with a very ripe banana or two and leave them somewhere warm. The tomatoes should ripen up in a week or so.

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:38:32 +0000

I usually end up with a bunch of tomatoes that can’t ripen enough before a freeze, so I’ve tried my hand at pickling them. I prefer pickled cherry tomatoes over the larger sliced tomatoes. The amount you have in the buckets up there would require a lot of jars! 😀

By: Kim from Milwaukee

Kim from Milwaukee — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:56:16 +0000

Green Tomato Chutney!

http://www.instructables.com/id/Grans-Green-Tomato-Chutney/

By: Bob Packard

Bob Packard — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:13:01 +0000

Bentley, I’m disappointed that you are not posting your garden adventures over at “The Compost Guy” site? The flowers from Monet”s Pallette are beginning to wilt! If you tire of that site, let me know.

By: Kim from Milwaukee

Kim from Milwaukee — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:10:34 +0000

My grandma used to wrap green tomatoes in newspaper and keep them in the cellar…they’d eventually ripen up. I usually keep them on the windowsill to get some sun and they do ripen in time.

How about fried green tomatoes? They’re really good!