Out of curiosity, how do you store your cannas? I'm always looking for new ideas.

This is my first year growing them, so I'm a newbie! I do grow dahlias and have been told cannas should be stored virtually the same way. I have read recently that there is no benefit to letting the cannas experience freezing temps, so it's ok to move them now. My pots are heavy and ceramic, I'll not be moving them with plants in them. My plan is to cut the stalks down to a few inches, take them out of their pots and either put them individually into plastic trash bags or paper bags. I'll keep the bags open until I think they're dry enough not to mold, then store against the north wall of my laundry room. It's the coolest room of the house. All the outbuildings are unheated and would get too cold for them. I also read that you should check them once a month or so and spritz/spray with water so they don't completely dry out.

Does that sound about right or do you do it differently?

Last year, I tried lifting the tubers for about half of mine and storing them in the garage in boxes with wood chips. I would say it was not very successful. But I had hoped it would save some room doing it that way. And that's the way my uncle does his and he has great success with it.

For all prior years, I had been doing it similar to your method. I kept them all in their large pots (usually plastic although some were in ceramic). I cut the stalks down to 4". Then I put a brown paper bag over the pot (to keep them in the dark basically) and wrap the whole pot in bubble wrap. Then I store in the garage. I never look at them until April 1 (no water nothing). April 1, I bring them out, unwrap them, and start watering them. I top-dress with some fertilizer. In the day they go outside, I roll them back into the garage at night until May when they go outside permanently. I've had around 80% success this way.\

I have never been able to store dahlias. I have one huge one now and I am not sure what I'm doing with it! Because I suck at dahlia storage.

It's going to freeze for the first time tonight in Laramie, WY. It's about 25 days later than average.

Popmama,

You do not suck at dahlia storage, you just haven't found the right method yet! You're a great gardener, I've seen pictures you've posted here! Thanks for the tips on storing and getting the cannas started next spring. Is your garage attached so it gets some heat from the house? I have an outbuilding with a chest freezer in it. I know it puts off some heat, I'm just not sure it'd be enough to store dahlias and cannas for the winter, especially at the -20 we get once in a while. I might pick one as a sacrificial lamb and overwinter it near the back of the freezer to see if it survives. My house is small and storage space is at a premium, so storing them elsewhere sounds appealing!

Hi Lane, it's nice to "see" you here! Welcome to the friendliest little garden group in the west! So you get frost way early, at least a few weeks earlier than us. Although we know frost can happen it September here too, some years. How cold did it get?

We dodged the bullet last night. It's 47 here this morning. Noaa was off by 10 degrees! I'm not complaining and imagine the cloud cover is what saved us from dropping lower. After I picked through the tomatoes and covered the beans I realized I'd forgotten about the golden delicious apples. I couldn't get all the apples picked before dark, so I'm glad for a few more days to do that. I wasn't expecting apples this year! I didn't see much flowering in the spring, so I was surprised to see apples this summer.

The latest forecast shows 40ish night temps for the rest of the week, then 36 Saturday night and 32 Sunday night. I'm glad for a bit more time!

I got 26.8 at my house. NWS said it got 21 at their station wherever that is. I'm on higher ground than their station which I think is at the airport which is out of town and gets colder there. Anyway, they were predicting 30! So it got quite a bit colder than what they were predicting.

Anyway, it's pretty shocking how badly the forecasters can be off.

And my wife grew up in Brighton, so not too far from Ft. Lupton (she calls it Ft. Lopez), and she can't believe how much that area has changed. We're in our early 30s so a lot has changed in not much time. Soon Laramie will feel a heat island effect from all the development in CO!

Treebarb,

Yes, my garage is attached to the house. I put the cannas on the side of the garage that is the north-facing wall which is not the house side. It gets cold in the garage but never below freezing.

I'm not sure what I'm doing with the big old dahlia yet.

L Clark,

I work in Brighton, small world! It has grown. They got a couple of mini malls and a movie theater about 10 years ago. We figured we'd "arrived" then, lol! It is nice to drive 15 minutes instead of 45 to see a movie. The trade off is, 20 years ago it took me 15 minutes to get to work and I had 2 traffic lights to go through. Now it's 11 lights and takes 25 to 30 minutes. That seems ridiculous when I'm only covering 15 miles! It's gotten very crowded and expensive to live here. I hope Wyoming doesn't get deemed the place to be like Colorado has!

Brrr, 21, even 26 sounds cold! I guess I better get my winter game face on, it's coming!

Popmama,

I hope to have an attached garage at some point in my life! I think if you store the dahlia the same as the cannas, it'll be fine. Just don't put it into storage wet, so it doesn't mold and rot. We'll have to share our storage experiences next spring.

Does anyone else want to chime in on what they're doing to get ready for winter? Part of why I posted this was to have others remind me of what I'm forgetting to do!

Barb

Nice. There is a Mexican restaurant we like in Brighton, La Estralita, or something like that. Anyway, Wyoming will never blow up like CO. The weather is too terrible. lol. However, if you can get past the weather it's a fantastic place to live and to raise a family.

It has been 26f twice at my place for coldest mornings. No, it is not early but it came in an unusual way - with a storm, instead of the clear night that just quietly ushers in frosts and Autumn.

I have an old house and a basement. There is one basement room with a "dirt" floor. (It's actually gravel because that is what our dirt is ;o) It is a good location for dahlia storage - I don't know about cannas.

The roots are trimmed a little and stored in plastic bags in peat moss. The tops of the bags are left open. The temperature varies from about 50f down to 35f if we are having several days of much below zero weather. There is a gas furnace and water heater in the next room, separated by a door.

My guess is that storage in other circumstances may have to be different but this arrangement has carried our dahlias through in that room for a couple of decades.

Steve

Hi Steve,

One of the things I'd forgotten was your spectacular dahlia bed! I don't have a basement, but do have a dirt floor crawl space under the house. I've not been down there much since the 2013 flood.

When I woke up that September morning and realized we were flooding, I opened the crawl space door. It was full of water and rising. l dropped a sump pump down there and ran the hose out the window. Once the water level started going down, I hopped down there and dug a small pit in the mud, then set the pump in it. I think we ran it off and on for 2 days. It kept the water from reaching the drywall, maybe saved the house. Good times, NOT!

Anyway, it hadn't occurred to me until now that might be a good place to store dahlias! I may have to face a fear or two and get down there again. We do have a heat run down there to keep the pipes from freezing.

Digit, was it the storm that smacked Montana that got you, too? That's an abrupt way to end the season!

Barb

Yes. Same storm - dropped out of B.C. and did a counterclockwise pirouette.

It would nearly take a glacial flood to create standing water in this valley. Hundreds of feet of gravel on the ancient valley floor.

Please, I said "nearly." Good Heavens, we don't need a test!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_Floods

Steve

Thanks for the info on your dahlia storage, Digit. Much appreciated! My garage would have similar temps. I saw someone else using plastic bag recently. Maybe I'll try that. I need to get some new peat moss.

Yep, Wed. and Sat. are looking like freezes around here!

Good luck with everyone's Dahlia storage! Sounds like a bit of work, but I imagine the beautiful flowers in the spring are worth it ;^)

I've been doing some research and many recommend letting the dahlias experience the first killing frost. Apparently it's like a signal to them that it's time to go to bed for the winter. So I will wait until after this frost to put my one dahlia away. I will try the plastic bag method this year. I bought some new, fresh peat today.

Thanks popmama! I will take dahlias off the to do list for today! I am pulling cannas, here and at Mom's. I'm just waiting for it to warm up a bit this morning. I'm glad to have chores, as it's been hard to lose the time I've wasted watching the Broncos so far this year. Maybe they'll turn it around if I don't watch!

Today I am bringing in: three tropical hibiscus, one flowering maple (abutilon), two poinsettias, one agapanthus, a few tender succulents and all the geraniums. My plant room is going to be very crowded! Plus outdoor rugs and cushions.

Next week I will do the cannas and the one dahlia if we get that frost. I have one canna Cleopatra that still has a gorgeous bud on it. It got a really late start! I will drag it into the house later this week and put it back out again hoping for it to finish its bloom before I chop it down. It's so gorgeous!

In an over abundance of caution we blew out our sprinkler system on Sun. We were going to wait till Wed. but didn't want to risk the weather forecasters being wrong. They were predicting some snow for Thurs. so hope that comes as we were going to water on Wed. Also covered the tomatoes that night to try and get a few more out of them. What do people do with all the green ones?

I was disappointed that after a couple of hard frosts, the 4 backyard tomatoes had been burned right through the two tarps that I had over them.

They had mostly undamaged leaves and were covered with green fruit. Three are cherries. They have steadily dropped that fruit - looks like the most mature go in first. I rescued a few and have left them uncovered. It's terribly windy and going into the 20's again, probably by tomorrow AM.

Green cherries, I'm not sure. Green tomatoes are usually made into soup as they ripen. A kid who grew up sprinkling a few drops of Tabasco in hot V8 juice: I can do better than the Campbell's that Mom used to give me. Everything in the blender. Sauteed onions and garlic, I like Maggi sauce instead of salt, grated cheddar there at the last ... it's soup!

Steve

This is what I do with my tomato plants when it's gonna freeze out!

For many years now I've been cutting them off at the soil level, tying the bottoms of the stems (of each variety) together, and hanging them from the rafters in the garage! When I first tried it I left all the foliage on, but, oy!, what a mess when it dries and falls off all over the place, so in recent years I've cut off all the foliage before I cut them down. Yeah, it's quite a job, but it's SO much easier to hang them, and easier to see what's ripening and what's not, and I'm pretty sure that not having all the dehydrating foliage around them and sticking to them helps keep them from rotting as they ripen--and NO mess!

I cut them and lay them down on a blanket on the grass to tie the bottoms, then carefully lift them up to carry them into the garage to hang them. The reason I lift them "carefully" is that when you're lifting them up from the bottom of the plant--after they've been growing all summer with the bottom on the bottom--you're "reversing" they way they're attached to the plant, so I usually have a couple fall off, which I just store separately till they're ripe enough to eat! By being "gentle" with them, most, and sometimes all, of them will stay attached to the plant--which, I don't have any scientific proof for this!, but I believe the ripening tomatoes benefit from having the "moisture" in the stems of the plant as they're ripening--at least until the stems are ALL the way dehydrated!

Before I started hanging them I tried other "recommended" ways of ripening them, including wrapping them, individually, in newspaper and putting them in a cardboard box! I think it's possible that might actually work--but it sure didn't for me! I "never got around to" unwrapping each tomato to see how ripe it was, and eventually most of them rotted in their nice protected little wrappings! Also! When I first found out about the "hanging" option it said to pull them out of the ground with the roots still on them and "shake off" the dirt! The year I tried that I was hanging them in the (carpeted!) basement where I was living, and if you think the foliage makes a total mess as it dries and falls off, just consider having DIRT constantly falling off of those "shaken clean" roots! Never did that again!

I can't post pics anymore--and wouldn't now that houzz owns the site anyway!--but here are two threads from '08 and '09 where I posted pics of my hanging tomatoes. In the '08 thread scroll down to the two pics, and in the '09 thread scroll down to the three pics. In the one thread I comment that one year when it was going to get cold enough to freeze even in the garage I had cut the stems in pieces, laid them on trays, and put them in an unheated bedroom. I don't do that anymore! For the last two years I've had an oil-filled radiator heater in the corner by the (hanging) tomatoes, and if it's gonna get "too" cold I now hang a few of my "garden covering" sheets around the tomatoes, have the heater right in the middle of them, and turn it on low--or higher depending on the predictions!--and it does an amazing job of keeping them warm--without keeping them "too" warm. The "top" of my sheets is "open," so, yeah, the heat goes up and out, but the oil-filled heaters are really good at heating, and it's done an amazing job for the last couple years at protecting the tomatoes until they're ripe enough to eat. This last year I still had a few left out there into February!

Won't have any in February this year because of my Tomato Catastrophe this year--when they apparently got hit by some "drifting" roundup this spring! They weren't producing much of anything at all when I left on my trip the beginning of Sept., but by the time I got home the end of Sept they had finally started producing fruit, and, while it's nowhere near what I would have gotten in past years, at least I DO have "some" tomatoes--all green but a couple of Cherokee Purples, but--they'll ripen in the garage! I spent a couple hours cutting off leaves yesterday, and tomorrow/Wednesday they'll be cut off, tied together, and hung!

Hanging them works for me! It might work for any of you too!

Skybird

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2142287/tomato-evaluations#n=26

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2143513/indor-tomatoes#n=23

Coincidence you wrote this today, Skybird - we plan to hang our tomatoes this year! Gonna pull them out tomorrow and hang them in the basement. Glad you mentioned about the leaves, as I was wondering about leaving them on. Makes sense to take them off after reading about the mess they made!

Previous years, I've picked the tomatoes and put them in brown paper bags and placed on top the refrigerator for ripening. It works well, and easy enough to peak in on them to see how the ripening is going, but want to try the hanging method to see if the flavor and texture is better.

HI Misty,

The cooler your basement is, the more slowly they'll ripen, so you'll have them to eat fresh for longer. And since they are going in a basement I'd recommend you put a sheet or a blanket down on the floor under them just to catch "anything" that might fall off--including an occasional tomato! It should be easier for you to keep an eye out for any tomatoes that fall off, but in my garage (there are pieces of pretty thick carpet under them) they sometimes fall off--cherries especially--and roll under something where I don't see them and they eventually rot and dehydrate--sticking to the carpet--which I don't really care much about--after they totally dry up, usually in spring, I go over it really well with the vacuum and it gets virtually anything vacuumed back up! If an occasional "big" tomato falls off, and falls "far enough" they can split open, so if you have hard floor in the basement you might want to consider putting some old carpet or a few layers of old blankets or something under them for a little bit of "cushioning." And, again, if you have hard floor I'd recommend hanging them as "low" as you can so they don't have far to fall if they do. Now! Having said all that! It sounds like a lot of them are gonna be falling off! In my experience that's not true--but it does happen sometimes!

I think I might have a problem this year again that mine are gonna ripen TOO fast! After a couple-day cold snap we're supposed to be warming up pretty much again, and while I can heat the garage if needed, I can't "cool" it off, so if it stays "too warm" out there for too long they'll ripen more quickly! I really like to have them to eat over a long period of time--spreading out the wonderful flavor of Real Tomatoes, so I hope that doesn't happen again! No way I can control it, so I'll just wait to see what happens!

In a couple months let us know what you thought of the ones you hung,

Skybird

We got cold enough Sunday night to kill off the dahlia foliage. I'd covered the bush beans with blankets, but by Monday morning they'd frozen anyway. I guess that's a blessing in a way, now I don't have to worry about trying to salvage anything above ground from the veggie garden. I'll pull the dahlias out of their pots after work, bag them and put them in storage. Will have to drain the hoses, too, but that's about it! All the tender plants, the geraniums, cannas and non-hardy cacti are inside now. I'm about as ready as I can get.

Skybird, if the tomatoes ripen faster than you can eat them fresh, you can blanch, peel and freeze them for future ratatouille or tomato sauce.

Good luck to all in their pre-freeze prep. It looks like we're going to have a nice weekend for post storm clean up!

Barb

Well, won't get to try the hanging of the tomatoes this year. DH wasn't feeling too well today, so he ended up just cutting branches off and putting all in a wheelbarrow. He said he noticed some bugs flying around in them, and was concerned about them getting into the house. By the time I got home and got around to tending to them, it was already cooling off and getting really windy. So I just decided to pick off the tomatoes and paper bag them like usual. I did leave some mini branches on clusters. Thanks for the reminder about the temperature for ripening. I have 3 bags, so think I'll put 2 in the basement and keep 1 bag in the kitchen.

Barb's tip on freezing them is a good one. I also cook small batches down into sauce (no spices) and water bath can them. Tastes so much better than store bought in whatever recipe you up end adding them to! But I agree, it is really nice if they can be stretched out for just slicing and eating!

Next year hopefully I'll have more time to prepare for hanging them! Good luck with yours, Skybird!

Our's went into a paper bag. Couldn't believe it when the news guy said it had only been 5 mths since our last snow storm. Summer seemed really short this year.

We have a huge amount of green tomatoes this year. It really isn't feasible to do the hanging upside down in the house or garage. Right now they're mostly in boxes. After we get things sorted out they'll mostly go into bags. We'll include some apples and bananas in each bag to release ethylene gas. It's been fairly successful in the past.

What! A! Day! Yesterday!

I was planning to finish up with bringing in the tomatoes and then posting that it was the first time I had ever done it when it was HOT out! Well! It WAS hot out when I started—and I was rather leisurely untying them from their “cages,” “bundling the stems,” and hanging them in the garage—when all of a sudden…..

OMG! The wind picked up like there was a hurricane moving in! The “hot” got COLD! The olde cottonwoods in the neighbors’ yards were blowing around so furiously that I was pretty sure it wasn’t even safe to stay out there—but I was NOT gonna desert my tomatoes to the wind and the cold! The twine I tie around 6’ stakes to cage them was Blowin’ in the Wind! I could hardly figure out which piece went which way to get it all off of the stakes it was tangling up so badly in the wind! And my hands were getting too cold to effectively use! I came in for a half an hour to watch the National news and warm up a bit—and switched from shorts to long pants and put on a flannel shirt to “stay warm” and went back out to “finish” the last 5 plants! The long pants and shirt didn’t help much at all in staying “warm!” And my hands were once again quickly close to unusable!

I usually wind up cutting them down in a “cold drizzle,” and I was delighted this year to have “good weather” to do it in! HA! It was dark—and I still had two cherries to extricate from their “cages!” The cherries are always the “hardest” to get down because of all the tiny tomatoes that get tangled up in each other and the twine and stakes—and between the dark, the wind-blown tangled twine, and fingers that weren’t working anymore, the Sungold got half “pulled” off of the stakes and the twine! The tomatoes that fell or got pulled off got picked up—some by sight and some by touch!—and put in a tray to ripen. I managed to weight down a blanket enough to get the plant “mostly” on it—and it’s now laying on the floor in the garage! Gonna carry it in the house soon to get the stems tied together and hang it! And there was still one last red cherry, ‘Farthest North’, a “trial” one for me this year! It was a LOT smaller than the Sungold (Is there anything that gets as big as Sungold?) and I did pretty much the same thing with it—undid as many of the strings as I could—and pulled! It too is on a blanket in the garage—to be hung!

I was freezing, and miserable, and very unhappy after the wind came up—but I am SO happy to have them safely in the garage—where I will, hopefully, be eating them little by little over the next couple months! There were two—smallish—ripe Cherokee Purple, and I see a large BLT in my immediate future! Have one Amana Orange that's about half ripe and a Brandywine (first year) that’s starting to ripen—ALL the rest are totally green! That’s because almost none of the plants set fruit until the plants were starting to “recover” from their Close Encounter with roundup this spring shortly after they were put in the ground. So virtually all the fruit I have set and developed after I left on my fall trip on August 30! Considering that, I’m absolutely amazed how many green tomatoes there are! All smaller than in a “normal year,” but still large enough to ripen in the garage. There are only a couple of obviously “immature” ones that won’t ever ripen! Considering that for all summer, thru August, I thought I was only gonna get a couple cherries and maybe a couple Cherokee Purples, I’m delighted with what I wound up with! And I sure hope I never have to go thru another Roundup Catastrophe again—ever!

After the tomatoes—practically frozen stiff!—I put a BIG box over my paprika peppers—which I had “prepared” earlier in the day—hoping to be able to keep them in the ground long enough to ripen! There are LOTS of large, long GREEN peppers on them (ever hear of green paprika?), and they do NOT ripen once they’re cut/picked, so my only hope is to see if I can keep them alive in the ground long enough to ripen. I had covered the BIG corrugated box with a HUGE trash bag to keep it from getting soggy, and I have the inside of the box “lined” with “another layer” of corrugated cardboard. It fits perfectly over the plants—all planted very close together. My hands were so cold by then I was having a problem even manipulating something as large as a big cardboard box—but I don’t give up easily!!! I laid a couple large rocks on top of it to keep it from blowing away—and partly to help add “heat,” maybe, and I put bricks all the way around the bottom—to keep out any possible wind—and, again, to hopefully add a bit of heat. The box will stay till it’s for sure staying above freezing over nite, so it’ll be a couple days till I see if I’m successful! The sun is coming out now and in a while I’m going out to throw some heavy blankets over the box, and the snow!—couldn’t do that last nite because of the WIND! I have my fingers crossed—and this is all to give the peppers to a friend who uses paprika if I successfully get them to ripen! I don’t use enough to keep them for myself!

Then I came in to warm up—and looked at my list! Uh-oh! I had forgotten to cut down the basil—which goes to a neighbor who makes pesto! Back outside! Cut the green ones and stuffed them in a bag—and cut down the one nice purple one I have/had and it’s now in a vase by my kitchen sink—perfuming the air!

Back in to the list! Uh-oh! I forgot to cut down the roses! Back out—the front door this time—and with (thin) leather gloves on! It was pretty hard to see what I was doing but I cut anything that looked like it might still be good—and a whole bunch of buds—and right now a have a large pitcher and a large bucket stuffed with them! Later today, or, more likely!, tomorrow I’ll put on my (better) leather gloves and go thru them and put them into actual vases! Most of them are the yellow one I have—which is my favorite anyway—and with all the buds I suspect I’ll have them around for a couple weeks! (But the gloves I put on quickly last nite were “too” thin and I got badly stuck several times! But they ARE pretty!) I’m sure glad I made up the list, ‘cause by then I NEVER would have remembered those things—until it was WAY too late!

The only thing I did not get done last nite was to fill ALL the bird feeders—I had filled two fairly big ones in the morning, so at least the birds had “something”—when I wasn’t going back and forth in the yard at least! Earlier in the day—during the Leisurely part of the day I had “dismantled” the birdbath—actually a VERY large pot saucer!—and scrubbed all the scum out of it (barefoot and in shorts!), and scrubbed the rocks I keep in the water for the birds to get onto, and got that all reassembled—WITH the defroster in it! So the birds were/are good to go with water—no matter how cold it gets! Every year when I plug it in for the first time I keep my fingers crossed that it still works—and, this morning, no ice, so it does! Happy drinking and bathing, birds! And now it’s time to get out there and fill up ALL of the feeders so they can eat to their heart’s content!

I sure wish it had stayed “too hot” out there so I could have finished it all “comfortably” and “in a leisurely way,” and much more quickly than what actually transpired—but it DID all eventually get done—and that makes me really happy! And I’m all toasty warm again! Life is good!

Skybird

Drat! I forgot about the basil so mine is still out there. This is my first year with so many buds and rose flowers so I didn't cut off as many buds as I should have. I think they would have opened if I had but it is too late now. Psychologically it was very hard to be cutting everything off in 80 degree weather.

Oh my, Skybird! What a feat!! I can just picture your little self out there, in your shorts no less, when the front moved in - oh man!! It's a good think you didn't live up to your online name and go flying!! Congrats on making it through most everything on your list. Hope your paprika's make it.

Agree mmmm - very weird battening down the hatches with the pleasant weather we had during that day!

Great tip on the apple or banana in the tomato bag, gjcore. I may do that as well.

Just wanted to give an update on Skybird's garage tomato method. These plants are from seed volunteers from last year's garden. I gave my mom 5 seedlings and they grew like crazy. She used the garage method just before that first October snow. She is still harvesting tomatoes today. In fact, she was gone for over two weeks and the tomatoes just kept on ripening in the garage waiting for her return.

Thanks for posting that, Popmama! They're lookin' good!

I'll be eating fresh tomatoes thru November, and probably thru December again this year. I'm still amazed how many were on the plants when I cut the foliage off--considering the "tomato catastrophe" I had this year. Right now I have two really nice size Amana Orange out there ready to eat--I'm gonna get me a couple more to-die-for BLTs yet this year! And I have 3 kind of average size Cherokee Purples out there about ripe and ready to go, with several more green ones on both of those two and green ones on 4 or 5 other small to medium size ones, plus lots and lots and lots of cherries, both red and Sungold.

Some of the very smallest ones, the ones that are "immature" and haven't fully developed won't ripen, but almost all of them usually ripen for me--eventually!

I did hang the sheets around mine this year when it started to get really cold out, and put the oil-filled radiator in there with them--just in case! And I have turned it on a couple nites, just so I wouldn't lay awake in bed wondering if they'd be ok! And when it was getting down in the single digits I did flip a small sheet over the top so I wouldn't be wasting too much heat when the radiator is on. I have an indoor/outdoor thermometer in the "tomato room" so I can keep an eye on the temp to know if I want to turn on the heater or not! When I do turn it on it's to just keep the temp barely above freezing--the cooler they stay, the more slowly they ripen, and I try to stretch the "harvest" out as much as possible. In my opinion the "pink stuff" you buy in stores isn't even worth wasting the money on!

Glad you're happy with what you're seeing in her garage, and I hope more of you will decide to give it a try next year!

Skybird

We put ours in a paper bag in the house with the tomatillos. They have all ripened and were pretty much done eating them. Just a couple of cherry tomatoes to go. Still have the tomatillos. Had a wonderful harvest there at the end and without this forum they would all have gone to waste. We have never picked the green ones to ripen before because there usually aren't that many. It has been great feasting on them.