[Diana in Wisconsin]

I always leave my tomatoes on the vine until red/ripe. They taste much better!

At the END of your growing season, but before a hard freeze (32 degrees & below) if you have a lot of full-size but still-green tomatoes, you can wrap each separately in b&w newspaper, store them in a single layer in a box or basket, and keep them somewhere cool and dark (unheated basement, or a garage that won’t get below 40 degrees) and they’ll ripen up just fine, in a few weeks.

[SaveFerris]

Thanks. I’ll try that.

I pulled a red tomato 2 days ago - found a huge black stripe on the bottom which I cleanly cut off - it was like an eye.

Hope that was good enough - appears to be so.

Got 3 or 4 slight red/orange/green out there. I’ll just wait.