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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thank you keith.  Since the bushes are dead, I will clip the branches as you 
advised, and cover then with newspaper on the kitchen counter.  thanks again, 
bobford

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--- On Fri, 1/2/09, keith bellinger <bartermn AT epix.net> wrote:

> From: keith bellinger <bartermn AT epix.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tomato question
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 12:39 PM
> Bob,
> Somewhere I have a recipe for pickled green cherry
> tomatoes; I'll dig it out. If I remember right they were
> called fireballs or something like that because they are
> spicy. There might even be a couple pints in the pantry. As
> for ripening them, yeah, pick them and spread them out,
> cover with newspaper; or Gin likes to put a couple in a
> brown paper sack to ripen quicker. I like to clip a whole
> bunch of cherry tomatoes, branch and all, and let them ripen
> on the stick.
> 
> 
> bobf wrote:
> > Bev, if you are still online this am (or somewone else
> that has a minute); a few nights ago. it was cold enough to
> kill most of one of my two tomato patches.  Most of most of
> the bushes are dead.  But, they are filled with green
> tomatoes.  Should I leave them on the dead bushes to ripen
> as long as possible.  Will they ripen on the windowsill if I
> pick them green?  I could make fried green tomatoes out of
> the bigger one , but I have bushes full of green cherry
> tomatoes, aslo.  I' would prefer for them all to ripen,
> if there is a way
> > 
> >