How to ripen my tomatoes?

[Andrew Cooper]

I am growing Gardener's delight and Money Maker outside in grow bags - watered and fed regularly. GD ripening nicely but MM staying green, although the fruits are larger and healthy. Any advice please?

[Neil Bromhall]

Hi Andrew,

You can pick the tomatoes and leave them to ripen in the sun. If you put other ripe fruit next to your tomatoes they give of a chemical that speeds up the ripening process.
You can pick the whole bunch keeping them on the stem or singularly.
By picking the fruit you stop the tomatoes from continuing to grow and they then go into ripening mode.
Alternatively you can reflect sunlight onto your plants. It will speed up the ripening process but with reflectors in your garden or alltment, it won't look very pretty.

Not all tomatoes ripen at the same time, so you may want to just leave naturew to do its thing.
best wishes
and good luck. I hope others may have more advice to offer.
Neil