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Properly Store Picked Tomatoes in Buckets

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For most round, fleshy tomatoes, place them with the 'blossom end' (where it attaches to the plant) facing down in the bucket. This specific orientation helps prevent bruising and subsequent rotting. Remove any small stems or 'peckers' from the stem end before placing them. For sensitive varieties, only fill buckets up to two layers deep to minimize pressure and bruising. For more robust Roma tomatoes, you can fill the bucket halfway. It's crucial to minimize handling and pressure on the tomatoes to ensure they ripen properly.

Goal: Store partially ripe tomatoes in buckets by placing them stem-end down to prevent bruising and promote even ripening.

Tools and materials

  • Buckets
  • Tomatoes (various ripeness)

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types of tomatoes let's go down here this is the Tomato you've got to pick right here and this is the Tomato that you have to store and you store them with this end down I'll show you once again there's a thousand schools of thought on how to store tomatoes this tomato is not ripe okay it's still got some green on it but the way we store it is with this end the the uh blossom end or where it attaches to the plant down okay we always want to store that down and we want to pluck off what I call the little pecker we want to pluck off the pecker and store it down just like that right there okay don't store your Tomatoes like this don't store them like that because it'll cause rot in these places you want to store them with that end down okay just like this one that end down so guys the wonderful thing about having the chickens near the garden here is that we'll take two buckets down with us and we're only going to fill our buckets probably to about right here okay we're not going to fill our buckets all the way full we want to put a layer of two deep Tomatoes okay the Romas we can fill halfway full but the other Tomatoes they're so sensitive to bruising we'll only do them too deep we'll take them put them in the house and then we'll come back I've got four buckets here one bucket will be dedicated for chicken food anything that's got a worm in it rot on it whatever like that we need to get it off the vine we'll take it dump it in there for the chickens and let them make some delicious eggs out of it so let's get busy and get to picking all

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