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Re: Saving green tomatoes?

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Bonnie wrote: I read once where you could keep green tomatoes longer for
storage and
>ripening if they were first dipped in a solution of water and bleach
>maybe?  I can't remember what you dipped them in.  Does anyone out there
>know?  I'm getting ready to pick all my green tomatoes since a frost is
>sure to come soon here in southern Indiana.


The idea of washing the fruit in a bleach-water solution is to kill and
bacteria or fungi that would cause rotting.  It's not a bad idea for
long-term storage.  You would use a 5 percent solution--kills about
anything, including the AIDS virus.  I, too, picked all my green tomatoes in
anticipation of a hard freeze and the weather guy's prediction of snow.
But, in the week or so these tomatoes have been in the house laid out in a
single layer in shallow boxes, about 40 percent of them have started to
ripen.  In fact, I'm having a second tomato explosion, where I go
door-to-door begging the neighbors to take some.  And, I can see signs of
the remaining green ones softening.  I guess I'll have to get out the canner
AGAIN!
Doreen Howard
Zone 5b--Central Illinois


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