KEEPING TOMATOES
Sin,—A few months ago the writer of your " Country Life " notes gave two suggestions for keeping tomatoes fresh, one being from a doctor-gardener who advocated packing the tomatoes, picked green, between layers of sawdust in biscuit-tins, claiming that in this way ripe fruit in very good condition could be eaten up to the end of February. As one who followed the instruction very carefully, I would like to point out that, on inspection, I found a dozen tomatoes bad out of forty, and, what was even more disappointing, I have discovered that these tomatoes, which had coloured and kept sound, had acquired a strangely bitter and unpalatable taste, when either eaten raw or cooked, making them quite uneatable. Ordinary sawdust from a saw-mill was used, and the tomatoes were stored in a good dry cupboard, with a normal temperature. It would be instructive to hear if other of your readers who followed the suggestion have had similar results.—Yours faithfully, J. M. WADSWORTH. zz Aldermary Road, Bromley, Kent.
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