Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Details To Do With How To Ripen Tomatoes

By Edna Booker


Most are the times when individuals find themselves held up in a situation where it is the end of the harvest season and yet their tomatoes are not yet ripe. This can be a huge setback to most people but with the right set of knowledge and skills, a solution to this can be sought. In relation to this, below are some tips on how to ripen tomatoes.

Most of the individuals just follow an easy procedure which does not require a lot of stress ventured into it. It includes plucking these tomatoes from the garden and preparing a special place for them to be put in order for them to ripen on their own. This is the most preferred method because it is not very demanding.

Once they are picked from the garden, it is important to first wash the dirt off them and wipe them using a clean towel and leave them to dry. It is advisable to use running water so as to make sure that all the dirt and other types of bacteria have been successfully gotten rid of. Failure to use running water may lead to their further contamination.

The next step now is spreading all these tomatoes on a flat surface and observing to see which of them appear to have spots, are soft or even appear to be rotting. It is important to separate these from the rest to avoid making the whole harvest go bad. In the event that they are not pretty much affected, the farmer may decide to try ripening them separately.

The length of time take greatly varies from one variety to the next. For some, a period of just some several days is taken while others take as long as several weeks for them to ripen. Other contributing factors include the room temperature where they are kept and the amount of water vapor present in that room. The temperatures are not supposed to be very high since this is a conducive environment for the growth of bacteria which can lead to rotting.

It is important to observe the tomatoes from time to time, may it be on a daily or a weekly basis. Those which are observed to be at least fifty percent red should be removed and left to become ripe in the kitchen counter. Any signs of rotting tomatoes should be done away with as fast as possible to see to it that they do not contaminate the others. This inspection should be made with a lot of care.

It should be seen to it that these green tomatoes are kept in an area with free flow of air. In order to hasten this process, bananas can be put together with them and through the process of releasing ethylene gas, this helps them ripen faster. This has even been proved scientifically.

Lastly, those who have tried this indoor method of tomato ripening have come to appreciate it very much. It is a rather faster way of getting those ripe juicy tomatoes instead of having to wait until the harvest season. However, there are some who say that the taste is not that inviting but most people have come to appreciate these home ripened ones.




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