Every time we pick tomatoes we put them in brown paper bags to ripen a little more or if they are ripe just for storage. They seem to keep a lot better that way. If we are ripening them a little more we put a banana in with them and if we're not we don't. Something about the peel helps the process. Anyway, at this point we have 3 brown paper bags full of all different types, shapes, and sizes and I have given a small bag to a friend, 2 small bags to my mom and 1 large bag. We have about 100+ more tomatoes on the vines at different stages of growth and ripeness and 25 of those are ready for picking but we rather them ripen as far as naturally possible on the vine than bring them in to rot. It's amazing! Mike's dad has attempted growing tomatoes in containers every single year since we've been here and every single year they either get eaten or don't ripen. I think that's why he wanted so many plants this year and my green thumb prevailed, even the container ha set forth 3 ripe tomatoes and only keeps growing and ripening. Yah, we over did it a bit but its nice to have some veggies to give away.
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