Don, I have heard of ripening various types of fruit by putting them in a brown paper bag with a ripe banana or two. Results will probably vary depending on how close to ripe the green tomatoes are at the start of the process. Robert rjones@mediaone.net Donn Townsend wrote: > > Has anyone out there got green tomatoes to ripen by wrapping them in > newspaper. If so could you give me the details on how? I tried years ago > but it didn't work.