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Our tomatoes refuse to turn red! Any thoughts? Other people seem to be having the same problem...
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So do mine, you just have to wait, it will happen.

11 Aug, 2011

 

They need some sun. If you find any send some our way, please.

11 Aug, 2011

 

Sun, sun, sun, that's what they need I'm afraid.

11 Aug, 2011

 

I sometimes end up sticking mine in a drawer till they ripen and or make green chutney. I thought with the hot early spring this year I would be streets ahead but the nights have been so called and very few sunny days.

11 Aug, 2011

 

Try putting a ripe one near them - the gas given off by ripe ones encourages the rest.(A supermarket one would be fine, if you can position it somewhere near a truss of green ones.)Then when you have some red ones leave one on the plant until another is ripening.

12 Aug, 2011

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