Although green tomatoes are safe to eat, you might not wish for your entire yield to be green, and it can be disheartening when particularly stubborn tomatoes just won't turn red. Well, Monty Don is here to save the day with a ripening hack that requires just one thing - a banana.
The celebrity gardening expert, and presenter of Gardeners' World in the UK, has shared his top tips for harvesting tomatoes as part of your late-summer and early-fall gardening checklist. In his jobs for September blog post, Monty reveals why tomatoes may be staying green: 'Tomatoes ripen best when the temperature is between 26 and 30 degrees Celsius (78.8-86°F), so this summer was too hot for many of them - especially if grown under glass and meant that many stayed green much longer than in a cooler summer.'
