{"id":544,"date":"2008-09-08T01:18:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T08:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-10-02T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T18:09:09","slug":"tomatoes-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/tomatoes-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Tomatoes in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cherry-toms-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-545\" title=\"cherry-toms-001\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cherry-toms-001-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cherry-toms-001-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cherry-toms-001.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am picking more and more Cherry Tomatoes as the days get longer. I still have a lot of other vines in the greenhouse with fruit to pick and if they won&#8217;t ripen <strong>I will try some of these tips.<\/strong> Let me know if you have other methods.<\/p>\n<h3>Encourage late ripening<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If you haven&#8217;t taken the greenhouse shading off, do so and clean all the glass.<\/li>\n<li>Bunny Guinness suggests you cover plants with horticultural fleece or perforated plastic.<\/li>\n<li>Stop pinching out as it is too late and excess water can be transpired through the new leaves to help avoid splitting.<\/li>\n<li>Reduce the plants work load by selecting the fruit you want to ripen and take the rest off.<\/li>\n<li>If you pick green tomatoes hang vines in a dark dry place to ripen.<\/li>\n<li>Wrap a tomato in newspaper and put in a drawer\u00c2\u00a0 or cardboard box. Tomatoes ripen best in the dark and sunlight will make the skins get tough.<\/li>\n<li>Put a banana in with green tomatoes will speed up the ripening\/decay process<\/li>\n<li>Pick green tomatoes as they start to change colour. Hard, dark green tomatoes get to a point where they won&#8217;t ripen and are only good for Chutney.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am picking more and more Cherry Tomatoes as the days get longer. I still have a lot of other vines in the greenhouse with fruit to pick and if they won&#8217;t ripen I will try some of these tips. Let me know if you have other methods. Encourage late ripening If you haven&#8217;t taken the greenhouse shading off, do so and clean all the glass. Bunny Guinness suggests you cover plants with horticultural fleece or perforated plastic. Stop pinching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/tomatoes-in-september\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}