Picking

Vine ripe fruit is excellent, but tomatoes can also be ripened successfully by picking fruit when it is just pink in colour. An old wives tale tells us to leave them in the window sill, but they will actually ripen to a better flavour away from direct sunlight.
Storing

Don’t store home grown fruit in the refrigerator - it will taste better if ripened and stored at room temperature. You might not notice the difference with a supermarket tomato, but allow the full flavour to develop from your home grown tomato by keeping in a bowl. Use a plain brown paper bag or Peakfresh® bag for long keeping.

The secret of the biggest tomato

There are excellent organic sources of beefsteak tomatoes, and other ‘huge-fruited’ varieties. Pruning off most of the fruit shortly after fruit set concentrates the energy of the plant into fewer, larger fruit. Always cull the fruit furthest from the vine in each cluster - the closest fruit to the stem is always the largest.

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