If you grow tomatoes…

Leave them growing and on the vines (tomatoes ripened on the vine have a better taste), it is unlikely there will be any frosts until mid October in SE England. If frosts are forecast, pick them and they will ripen on a windowsill. If you then want to hasten the ripening of green tomatoes, put in a plastic bag with a ripe banana

My cherry tomatoes are outside and are ripening. So far there’s no sign of black leg but that usually gets the plants by the end of September.

When the night start to get chilly I cut off tresses and ripen them indoors, either in a paper bag in the drawer or on the window sill with a banana.

I think about green tomato chutney round about mid-October!

Ours are still outside - it really depends on the amount of sun, which I always thinks makes the tomatoes taste better. We are away next week and will review when we come back in the middle of September.