Saving Green Tomatoes B4 Freezing

AlittleSalt · November 9, 2014

This is my first year of having tomatoes in the fall. There is a cold front coming with low temps around freezing starting 3 days from now. I've read about saving green tomatoes by picking them and ripening them inside. Things like not saving blemished or cracked tomatoes are easy to find info on, but what I am not sure about is picking the size of green tomatoes. Can I pick all of the green tomatoes or should I only pick near fully developed size tomatoes?

One Porter tomato plant has over 100 tomatoes on it. I quit counting at 100. I already have hundreds of seeds saved of Porter. So the green tomatoes, I want to eat them when they ripen eventually.

There are a lot of green Rutgers, but I have a pack of store bought seeds saved, so again, I just want to ripen them to eat.

I grew Jelly Bean as an F1. I have two vine ripened tomatoes, and I do want to save seeds from them. Can I save seeds from the green Jelly Bean tomatoes after they ripen on a sunny windowsill?

Sorry if I misworded anything - I have had a headache for three straight days. At least nothing is showing up on the speelcheck r

November 9, 2014	#1
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	Saving Green Tomatoes B4 Freezing This is my first year of having tomatoes in the fall. There is a cold front coming with low temps around freezing starting 3 days from now. I've read about saving green tomatoes by picking them and ripening them inside. Things like not saving blemished or cracked tomatoes are easy to find info on, but what I am not sure about is picking the size of green tomatoes. Can I pick all of the green tomatoes or should I only pick near fully developed size tomatoes? One Porter tomato plant has over 100 tomatoes on it. I quit counting at 100. I already have hundreds of seeds saved of Porter. So the green tomatoes, I want to eat them when they ripen eventually. There are a lot of green Rutgers, but I have a pack of store bought seeds saved, so again, I just want to ripen them to eat. I grew Jelly Bean as an F1. I have two vine ripened tomatoes, and I do want to save seeds from them. Can I save seeds from the green Jelly Bean tomatoes after they ripen on a sunny windowsill? Sorry if I misworded anything - I have had a headache for three straight days. At least nothing is showing up on the speelcheck r