Tomatoes are one of the most beloved and useful vegetable crops that are grown by many gardeners and vegetable growers.
However, it is not always possible to get a harvest of ripe and juicy tomatoes, especially in regions with short and cold summers. How can you speed up the ripening of tomatoes and enjoy them before the frosts come?
There are many ways to speed up the ripening of tomatoes, such as fertilizing, pruning, covering, removing ovaries, etc. However, today you will learn about the simplest and most effective method, which does not require any costs or special efforts.
This method involves simply placing one or more ripe bananas in a basket or box with unripe tomatoes.
Bananas release ethylene, a gas that stimulates the ripening of fruits and vegetables.
Ethylene spreads throughout the entire volume of the basket or box and affects the tomatoes, accelerating their ripening.
This method works not only with bananas, but also with other fruits that emit ethylene, such as apples, pears, apricots, peaches, etc. However, bananas are the most effective and affordable for this purpose.
If you want to speed up the ripening of tomatoes even more, you can add some straw or newspaper to the bananas.
This will create an additional greenhouse gas effect and increase the temperature inside the basket or box.
So, you can get ripe and tasty tomatoes in just a few days using a simple and effective method with bananas. Try it and you will not regret it!
