It was supposed to frost the other night, so I did my final harvest. I have a buffet overflowing with sweet peppers in various stages of green. None of them are ripe and only a few have started to ripen over the past few days. I'm afraid they won't ripen and will, instead, go to waste. :-( Is there anything I can do with green peppers (like pickle them, maybe?) that will make them okay to eat? I don't eat green peppers, usually, because I can't digest them very well. I have a small amount of green tomatoes, too. If those don't ripen, is there something I can do with them, as well?

Thanks for any advice!

Love,

Gypsy

The only thing I can think of is fried green tomatoes, but those aren't raw...

You can always put them in a paper bag with a banana.

Some of the tomatoes and peppers have ripened (I've been keeping a ripe banana with them--thanks, jorgeben)! Lots of them are looking like they are getting a bit soft (slightly beginning to wrinkle), however, and they are still green. :-( Does anyone else have a suggestion for what I can do with them (I have *a lot*) so that they don't go to the compost bin? I'd love to be able to eat them, if possible.

Thanks!

Love,

Gypsy

i have two huge buckets of green tomoatos i had to pick aswell. ive left the peppers on the plants even though it frosted and they are still turning red. I do however eat the sweet peppers at all stages of growth. i like them a lot when they're tiny, they're like grape tomotos ina way. is it not good for digestion if they're not ripe? and how do you know when they hit that ripe stage?
for the tomatos, they've just been getting ripe over time. they're in bowel in front of my kitchen windows turning red slowly but enough to were i have at least 4-5 to eat everyday... just keep letting them get sun.
if they are rotting while they're still green then i dont know what to tell you, my moms friend told me to store the green ones in a box w/ newspaper and take some out to put in the window seal when i want them to ripen and somehow they're supost to work this way, and they are.

i dont mind eating my peppers a little wrinkled either, but thats just me and not wanting to compost them either im sure the wrikled garden peppers are tastier than the crunchy grocery peppers anyday.