SAVE Your GREEN TOMATOES | How to Store & Preserve
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- A few days ago, I had to go out into my garden and harvest all my tomatoes - even the green ones. Blight has set in, and I don't want to lose what's left of this crop. But what do I do with two giant baskets of green tomatoes? In this video, I'll show you my tip on how to store them for months, as they slowly ripen, and also share a bunch of my favorite canning recipes to use them up. Links for videos / recipes referenced are below:
Green Tomato Curry: • THE GREEN TOMATO CANNI...
Green Tomato Ketchup: • AMAZING GREEN TOMATO K...
Green Tomato Jelly: • Green Tomato "Strawber...
Pickled Green Tomato Slices: • SO MANY GREEN TOMATOES...
Green Tomato Chocolate Muffins: • GREEN TOMATO Sweet Bre...
Green Tomato Salsa Verde: • Making Salsa Verde | P...
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If you are pulling tomatoes because of frost predictions rather than blight, you can pull up the entire plant, roots and all, and hand them upside down in a root cellar or basement. They will continue to ripen for several months. The last time I did this, I pulled the plants in late September and finished the last vine ripened tomato just after Christmas.
I live right at the line separating zones 7 and 8. We can wait until October, sometimes November, to harvest all of our green tomatoes. It was November in 2021. We store them in brown paper grocery bags, rolling the top of the bag closed - and only one layer. Place the bags in a closet that doesn’t get hot. We ate our last ripe tomato in February 2022! Then it was time to plant in our high tunnel in March.
Question......does this method, attract mice?
Awesome!! I’ll have to try it:)
I do the paper bag method every year. works perfect!!
I am zone 6b and our frost date is around October 13/15 so I still have time but I’m not sure if the smoke will effect them in Washington stay
Wow I’m going to try that! Thankyou
I live in Fort Worth. I didn't have any tomatoes get a good size and I only got about ten of what did show up. The drought was awful. It's been so hard watching all the beautiful harvests on TH-cam. I put the little ones in a basket I kept what little produce I got. I hadn't looked in the bottom for quite a while and when I did, there were some ripe ones and blushing ones. I was so shocked, but happy. Have a great weekend.
I have learned so much about green tomatoes. As an Aussie, I have never known it was even possible to eat green tomatoes! We just don't. I will now though ❤️
Fried green 🍅 tomatoes are great.. you can also wrap them in news paper and store them, I've done it...👍❤️
Hi fellow aussie! ❤️ I made some green tomato salsa Verde with market bought end of season green tomatoes last month to trial it and it was a hit so I will definitely be doing it myself.
Hey y'all can look for some of the tomatoes that are green when they are ripe if you want to use red tomatoes that have not turned yet look for firm ones and pay attention the the varieties as some are more or less sour and if you do or do not like the sour flavor you can remember the ones you like. I been eating fried green tomatoes and fried okra all my life and it would not be summer without them!
Omgosh...green tomatoes are cut dipped in egg and flour or cornmeal or both in the south in America and fried...try it...so good
From Saskatchewan Canada. I rarely get any vine ripened tomatoes because we have a short growing season here. I picked all mine a few days ago because we had frost warning already. We are very used to ripening our tomatoes indoors. I just dump them in boxes amd cover box with newspaper. Look through them every couple of days and pick out ripe ones. As they ripen either perserve or put in freezer for later. I currently have 6 huge boxes in my garage. Will soon be ready!
My favorite thing to make with green tomatoes is Fried Green Tomatoes. Yummy
"Dal" are pulses such as lentils "Curry" is a word made up by the english to denote anything flavored with Indian spices. India has regional cuisines and a lot of the seasonings overlap, but the combinations and base ingredients are not quite the same because the climates in the various agricultural regions are not quite the same. I've just started my Indian continent culinary exploration, so I thought I'd share. 🥰
The Tamil word for sauce is Kari. Many English tried to use the words they heard as they lived with the locals and had food made by the locals. The generalisations are as much a part of any social group as they live in a foreign land. For example ketchup was originally very different to what we know now. Chutney is a salsa in the US but you have the Mexican inclusion while we have the Indian.
Hey Rachel, I have been doing this for several years now. I will attest to everyone this works every single year not just sometimes. There are a few tomatoes I plant on the 4th of July, Just for this reason, knowing that these will be green at the first frost. So that day a clip them off leave the plug or stem in the tomato and then store them just as you did. Once a week just go through and look for the ones starting to turn and bring them upstairs to use. Most years we for sure make it to Thanksgiving and some years beyond it really depends upon when the frost comes.
We make fried green tomatoes and fried okra all summer into the fall as long as we can here in Minnesota zone 4A. Green tomatoes with cumin and lime work great as a base for fajita seasoning. Thank you for the video and all the great ideas. Take care be safe bye for now
Thanks for sharing. I lay down paper towels in a flat clear plastic storage container, then a single layer of green tomatoes, covered with another layer of paper towels. I leave a bit of space between the tomatoes, just in case one starts going bad, I can see it easier. Put the lid on and put them under the bed. Check them every day or two. Yum.
What a crop! I'm so envious. I'd be making passata until the cows come home.
I’ve made green tomato relish for years. It has almost the same amount of red and green peppers as tomatoes. It’s sweet and spicy, and very delicious. It’s wonderful on burgers, hot dogs, turkey sandwiches, ham sandwiches or mixed in tuna salad.
This sounds like my mother-in-law"s Pepper relish
Made green tomato relish last year. Still have enough till next year. So since I haven't gotten any ripe tomatoes this year. Their all going to be salsa Verde.
In the South, we fry and eat them. They are delicious 😋
Yep! In cornmeal!😋
Thanks for all of the green tomato ideas Rachel.
Again, thank you so much Rachel! I am continuing to learn so much from you. Providing nutrition straight from our little city yard. ❤️
Learned something new today!
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Fried green tomatoes is one of my favorite dishes.
This is awesome. So excited to try saving my green tomatoes for fresh eating! I made your ketchup with the majority of green tomatoes and it’s yummy!
Thanks for the ideas!
Have made your salsa verde before and it is amazing! Love being able to use the green tomatoes up and end of year.
Thank you for the informative video. Never knew green tomatoes had so many uses!! Can't wait for your pantry update!! Thanks again!! Stay safe!!
Thanks for the great video! So many great ideas. Game changer on how to store green tomatoes! Will definitely be sharing with my kids!
I do this too. I’ve had them through Christmas. Stored in a cool place (the garage). I continue to can, make salsa, and sauces. I pick through for rotten ones every couple days.
Yes I have green tomatoes now. Thanks for all the info and uses for them.
This was perfect timing. My tomato plants got sick too & I have 2 small baskets with no counter space to let them ripen. Thanks for the inspiration!
Woohoo, just made the curry, sort of followed a recipe-ish, House smells amazing. Thank you x
I love your pantry shelves and everything on them😊
I’m so glad you make videos on this! I never knew about this and the other day I made the green tomato chocolate bread you made in your past videos, and holy moly they are delicious! And it totally reminds me of zucchini bread - yum! I’ll be making more to freeze and some salsa verde with the rest. Thanks so much for renewed inspiration in the kitchen ♥️
I'm new to your channel and excited to learn more. My husband and I started canning, dehydrating and freeze drying. This year we produced the biggest garden we've ever had and with an early frost are now loaded with baskets and totes full of green tomatoes. I'm so grateful for your suggestions!
This is brilliant! I'm going to share this video with my husband.
OH MY GOODNESS! Thank you for sharing this. You are right I didn’t even think about saving or storing them. I have always pitched the green ones… I actually just gave a ton to my chicken last week. Now I know!
Thanks for all the great ideas. I did make salsa verde one year and was impressed with the results!!
Thank you so much for sharing. It might seem easy when you’ve done it all before, but I SO appreciate the advice, knowledge and experience you share. Thank you for the encouragement and motivation - PS I am listening to this whilst sowing peppers in the Southern Hemisphere so it’s Really motivating!!!!!
I like when you give other ideas for uses of a fruit/veg. Thanks ❤
Love love love your ideas for using green tomatoes... Thank You Rachel 🥰🙏 Kendra
Thanks for your video...I just pulled out a great tomato plant, from blight. I have lots of green tomatoes that wasn't sure what to do with. Didn't know potatoes and tomatoes not compatible until I saw your last video. Ty again!
I made the green tomato curry, it's AWESOME! I made 3 batches with my green tomatoes. Thank you for that recipe!
I live in the thumb of Michigan. I just picked green and tomatoes with a slight touch of color. I stored them in my garage without any installation. I covered them with towels. Some of them developed spots of rot and others ripened. I would look at them occasionally and toss out the rotting tomatoes. However, I did harvest red tomatoes into November.
I’ve made the green tomato curry… it is awesome!
Thank you so much Rachel...we just had our first hard freeze so I pulled all the larger green tomatoes...nothing compared to what you have. I think this summer was too cool and my tomatoes did not get large at all. The temps were in the 40s at night throughout the summer! Living at 7200 ft in elevation has it challenges!!
Thx for ideas Rachel!
Thank you!! I'm freezing sliced green tomatoes for frying in the winter. I'm so happy you shared this video!!
I have always made green tomato mincemeat. Great for Christmas baking.
Gorgeous!!
Your pantry is looking amazing,a testament to all your hard work growing, harvesting and preserving. My Mother used to make green tomato chutney, it was delicious.
Awesome video and suggestions, thank you so much!
Super helpful. My daughter and I were just wondering what all we could do with our green tomatoes. Thank you!
Thanks for the ideas.. I also make green tomato relish to use with beans and fish!
Wow love your pantry so full and organized. I too have many many green tomatoes I would not like them to ripen that fast so I guess I should put some in a cooler place to slow things down. Also I noticed through the years even when red they will store well in a dark shelf in my cool basement it is amazing how long they last in the perfect spot Thank you
Thank you Rachel!
This is what we do- put in cardboard box and cover layers with newspaper, or wrap each one in newspaper. Keep in a cool place. The tomatos will ripen and last a few months.I also made a green tomato bread from a recipe on Allrecipes. It is a moist banana bread like taste and texture. The family and neighbors loved it. Read modifications in the ,"I made it review column." I modified it with less sugar, & less oil [ used part applesauce].As others have stated; fried green tomatos are good too!
This is my first time on you’re you tube channel . Love it. My mom used to wrap green tomatoes in newspapers and we had them through Thanksgiving. I started canning after not doing it for years. Picking my green Tomatoes tomorrow as it is going to frost Monday . I would line to know how to find you’re recipes. I hope you see this and let me know. I picked Red one’s today so will have a few more jars to can. Thank you for the info. You explain things very clear and make it easy to understand. Jann from Ohio USA
Would love to see a pantry update, especially what you feel you need to make more of for the year off.
Another great video. I wanted to say I made your peach salsa. Its fantastic, I wish I had made more.
My mother used to make a green tomato relish. We ate it with beans and peas. Was really good. Some went in boxes under our bed to ripen later. We had ripe tomatoes for Thanksgiving.
My mother-in-law taught me to make Pepper Relish using green tomato. I have my grandmother's Piccadilly recipe the used green tomatoes. Both are a mandatory condiments to have on the shelf.
Rachel I love green tomatoes. God Bless!
So helpful thank you!! We are in Eastern Ontario Canada and getting very close to the nights going down to freezing. I was worried my green tomatoes were done! I am going to harvest them now!
I make Chow Chow with my green tomatoes and chop up the rest and freeze them for the next season of Chow Chow in case I don't get enough for next year
I'm gonna try this, this year! Rachel I've had success with wrapping them in newspaper but Too Much TIME! So this is gonna be awesome thanks! ♥️ Y'all, Kristy in Missouri zone 6b😀🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Within the last week I've made 2 different chutneys with my green tomatoes; green tomato pineapple chutney and green tomato apple chutney. Both a wonderful on grilled meats and I make them every year!
I have made mock raspberry jam with my green tomatoes and my grandkids love it. Another favorite of mine is mock mincemeat pie filling. Great to have in a jar all ready for the pie shell.
Would you share your recipe I have lost mine
Your tips for using green tomatoes are invaluable. A lot of my family and friends are surprised when I tell them that I can tomato-basil jam--my favorite. It is great on ham-and-cheese buns, which, if I heard the last name correctly in a prior, your husband is of Dutch-descent and so would be very familiar with the Dutch love of ham-and-cheese buns? (I am also of Dutch descent.) I like to spice up the traditional ham-and-cheese buns by slathering on a bit of tomato jam.
thank you you always share awesome ideas
Will try next year with the green tomatoes
We make fried green tomatoes and pickled green tomatoes and green tomato relish. Love your channel.
My tomatoes are loaded with green tomatoes. The plants look like they are coming back and reblooming!!! I've never had this variety before but Atkinson is a winner in my book!!!! My grandmother would cover the Maters until a killing frost. If it was going to get real cold she would pick everything take the stem off and turn upside down on cardboard or newspaper. They ripen up good in a cool dark location!
I would really enjoy seeing how u make your salsa verde with green tomatoes!
Now I'm gonna have to look for that jam recipe
Great method of saving grn toms
Thank you sooo much for sharing your way of storing green tomatoes!!! I was taught to put my green tomatoes in brown paper bags!!! It worked but I always had smashed tomatoes!!! I would loose about half of them because of that!!!
Sorry I hit the wrong button!!! I wasn't done!!! God Bless!!!
I agree that keeping things clean is important and I wouldn't purposefully leave diseased foliage in my garden but, most disease causing "bugs" are in all gardens. If conditions are right for good/bad bacteria just as good/bad fungi, they will flourish. Jadam gardening helped me to realize this and it just makes sense. I had late blight this year and once I would have freaked myself out about it but I'm just going to add as much health to my beds before putting them to bed for the winter and give myself a some grace. Thanks for the storage tips!!!
Make wonderful green tomato mince (without beef) or mincemeat w beef or hamburger. This is AWESOME for pies and cookies. My gramma and mama made this all the time. Sooo good!!!! ❤️❤️
I always did this in Canada just before the first killing freeze. I always grew tomatoes in my little greenhouse to extend the season but always had a lot of green tomatoes.
Thank you. I just picked three buckets of green tomatoes so far. I also have late blight.
Awesome ideas
I made your green tomato ketchup and funny enough, I put it on my meatloaf. It was wonderful and much better than the red ketchup. Love your videos and they always give me ideas.
Last year I harvested over 52 lbs of green tomatoes. I made salsa Verde and shared some.
Great produce, Rachel! Canning is hardly ever used here in Norway. When I make jam or other things, I always freeze everything. I don’t even know if you can get hold of a canner here.
If you have a deep enough stockpot (a couple of inches deeper than your jars), you can use it as a waterbath canner. Use wire or twist ties to fasten canning rings together to form a platform for the jars to sit on 🙂
Just saw you already have a video out on salsa verde using green tomatoes! Will have a look at that....
I cut the plants off at the ground & hang them in my shop. I too made it into November last year with fresh tomatoes. 😋
in Appalachia, im in western NC near cherokee, folks wrap them in newspaper and store under a bed and have fresh tomatoes until Thanksgiving.
I envy you people that have a Root Cellar or basement to store your food.
Also on the strawberry 🍓 you make using tomatoes, my sil did the same only with figs. I enjoy your videos. Thank you and God bless.
Love your videos thanks
We plant a winter garden, and tomatoes are in that garden, and we have fresh until frost, and bring in the rest of the green ones then. We have eaten tomatoes on out in December, doing them this way.
We love you so much!!!!!
Im from Nova Scotia, my mom and grandmother made Green tomatoe chow chow ...im sure theres a recipe
I dont have it right now , but it is a delicious condiment, tom, onions
Not sure rest right off....give it a try
I always learn so much from your videos. Why did you place them stem down?
We pulled out tomatoes todaas they are forecasting frost for us tonight so we have alot of green tomatoe thanks for some great ideasy
We say sweet breads in my area too. Minnesota. Envious of your tomatoes, mine didn't do too well this year.
HI I do the same thing as does my neighbour and we will eat them well into the new year Feb even, but some varieties if it is too cold will get a black spot that will ruin the tomato so you have to watch closely and pull it. Perhaps washing them better or look closely before you store them with the rest it might be a tiny black dot. Trust her this is the way to go !
We make green enchilada sauce, it's so good!
I can whole green tomatoes then drain n slice them fry them. I also like to toss some wedges into a roast. ( It adds a wonderful tartness).
I have never saved green tomatoes but maybe I’ll give some of these recipes a try. Do green tomatoes without any blush ever ripen? Love your channel!!
💕~Cheryl~💕
I'm from the UK my mum and Granny used to make green tomato chutney from excess green tomatoes. There are plenty of recipes on the Internet.
thank you
Breaded & fried for me 👍
Hey Rachel. I love tomatoes 🍅. But I tried green tomatoes 🍅, but it didn't taste good plan. So, when I buy them later. I will make fried green tomatoes 🍅. With rib's. God Bless you Rachel. And thank you for sharing. Stay healthy. Mari'a. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅
Perfect timing for me in the UK just had to pull all mine Im due to the storm risks
My Mom used to make green tomato relish, with the green tomatoes. She also made fried green tomatoes,
My mom used to wrap the green tomatoes in newspaper and sometimes we'd have them until February. I use this big long strawberry boxes from the grocery store if I don't have canning boxes empty