Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

How do you tell when a green tomato is ripe?!

We planted a number of unusual tomato varieties this year (Mr. Stripey, Arkansas Traveller, Green Zebra).

Our Green Zebra grew the fastest... and looked like it would be our first tomato of the summer but we had a dilemma -- how do you tell when a green tomato is ripe?! It slowly turned a vaguely yellowish green so I kept squeezing it until it felt soft enough that I guessed it was ripe...

Once it was soft we decided to take a chance and cut it open. It was delicious. It had a strong tomato flavor with hints of lime. Wonderful. It has also been hardy and prolific... so I think we will definitely grow it again next year.