F) Grow cherry or grape type tomatoes next year. When living in Surrey I could never get a slicing tomatoes much beyond green before the season ended, despite growing several varieties recommend for outdoor in England.
They usually still ripen well when it is between 15 and 20C. It's almost never over 25C here.
10-15C it's slow, under 10C it stops. Which means that tomatoes are ripening here outside until mid-October usually (unless blight gets them which usually does outside).
I used to grow both cherries and salad tomatoes outside in North Wales, not beefsteaks though.
I only harvested my 1st larger tomato (Ukrainian purple) of this year 2 days ago, from a greenhouse. All others are green, some still small. I still expect a good crop.
I usually stop my plants in mid-August because it takes at least two months from the pollination to ripening.
This month’s Which? Gardening has objectively tested the various methods of ripening green tomatoes, including the tips mentioned here plus several more, and came to the conclusion there is precious little difference in ripening time between any of them.
What was interesting, though, is how well tomatoes kept after ripening. Definitely the worst was using bananas to facilitate ripening as these tomatoes were the first to go soft and wrinkled. Not recommended either was putting the fruit in a paper bag or leaving it in a bowl next to other ripening fruit. The best advice is to leave the fruit in a dark place with fairly uniform, warm temperatures. A kitchen drawer is best (but who has got an empty one of those waiting for the early autumn glut?)
We grow our tomatoes against a south facing brick wall, so they ripen quite readily. However, I don't dislike green tomatoes as I use them to make chutney, which we all enjoy. Furthermore, we like fried green tomatoes too; but, it must be frustrating if all your tomatoes refuse to behave themselves. As others have said, perhaps one needs to be really patient.
Usually to grow outside ( before I had a bigger garden) I used a plastic greenhouse to grow toms in. I bought plants April/May and grew them on the window sill until end of May, at which time they were about 45cm tall. Planted them out, sometimes with little toms on the lower trusses. I always thought that I was doing well to get the first one ripe by the last weekend in July ( Usually a cherry variety) so two months from the first fruit set was the usual timing. Hope this helps @Javi.xeneize 😁
Kitchen windowsill is good , I bring them in when they start to turn on the vine...then wash them and put into a bowl on the windowsill. Two day max they are red and shiny. I have two varieties a plum small one and good medium size one. But im hoping for some green leftovers for the end of season ....green tomato chutney.. scrummy with cheese in the winter months.
Nothing unusual about this, I've planted tomatoes in the past which haven't ripened until September, October or even November. I now mainly grow varieties which will ripen earlier - I get Sungold toms from around late June into November or even December ( in a greenhouse), Tigerella from late July until around the same time, and this year my Nimbus toms have started ripening mid August. Don't panic yet!
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What was interesting, though, is how well tomatoes kept after ripening. Definitely the worst was using bananas to facilitate ripening as these tomatoes were the first to go soft and wrinkled. Not recommended either was putting the fruit in a paper bag or leaving it in a bowl next to other ripening fruit. The best advice is to leave the fruit in a dark place with fairly uniform, warm temperatures. A kitchen drawer is best (but who has got an empty one of those waiting for the early autumn glut?)
Hope this helps @Javi.xeneize 😁
I have two varieties a plum small one and good medium size one.
But im hoping for some green leftovers for the end of season ....green tomato chutney.. scrummy with cheese in the winter months.