Storing tomatoes in wood ash

[smitty55]

I plan on trying this old Amish method of storing ripe tomatoes. Don't know if I will do any canning of sauce this year so this could be a great way to stretch them out for fresh eating. The main concern I have is that my Greeks are very thin skinned and from what I've researched it works best on thicker skinned varieties.
So I'm just wondering if anyone here has any experience trying this out and what their experience was like. Tks

 

[big rockpile]

I wish I had the extra Wood Ash to try. I’m using it for my Chickens to dust in and Fertilizer.

Be very careful with Wood Ash I’ve had it take all the Skin and some Meat off my Fingers. Every one of them.

big rockpile

 

[smitty55]

I wish I had the extra Wood Ash to try. I’m using it for my Chickens to dust in and Fertilizer.

Be very careful with Wood Ash I’ve had it take all the Skin and some Meat off my Fingers. Every one of them.

big rockpile

That would be from the lye that results from the ashes getting wet.

 

[Meadowlark]

Haven't tried it but always wanted to do so. I would use only perfect dry unwashed tomatoes placing them stem down in the ash and I'd add some bay leaves to the ash for bacteria protection.

Interested in your results.

 

[big rockpile]

That would be from the lye that results from the ashes getting wet.

Yelp I was using it to take hair off a hide. Didn’t wash it or used rubber gloves and paid for it.

big rockpile

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Interesting, but I just don't have wood ash by the end of summer. End of Winter, yes, loads of it, but I have been fertilising tomatoes with it

 

[smitty55]

Haven't tried it but always wanted to do so. I would use only perfect dry unwashed tomatoes placing them stem down in the ash and I'd add some bay leaves to the ash for bacteria protection.

Interested in your results.

Every single article I saw said to put them stem up in the ash. No problem with bay leaves, I have a large pot of bay laurel growing.

 

[Meadowlark]

Yes, I got it backwards @smitty55

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Yes, I got it backwards @smitty55

No, upside down

One of my must do jobs, cut the top six or eight feet of the massively overgrown bay.