Keep tomatoes fresh longer--right on the counter!
Have you heard of Green Bags? They’re green plastic bags that help keep your produce from going bad for two to three times longer than using normal storage methods.
If you have a garden you need these green bags, especially at this time of year.
I first purchased my green bags two years ago from Home Shopping Network. They’re one of the best investments I’ve ever made. You can reuse them up to ten times. Just rinse them out and air dry.
I’ve kept citrus—lemons, limes and oranges—for over a month. Lettuce and cucumbers stay crisp and fresh for a week or two. Almost everything stays fresher in green bags.
When frost threatened in late October last fall, I picked all of the peppers in my garden and placed them in green bags. I stored the bags in a closet in an unheated hallway. I was still using the peppers a month later. They even ripened to yellow, orange and red in the bags and remained crisp until nearly Thanksgiving. Pepperoncini peppers in green bags kept fresh in the crisper drawer in the refrigerator until December.
Home Shopping Network has several collections of green bags and the best bargain. If you’d like to purchase a smaller quantity to try out, visit www.greenbags.com and the inventor, Debbie Meyer, will explain the concept to you personally.
Every gardener needs green bags, especially in late summer when the garden is producing everything in large quantities. Maybe this year you won’t have to annomyously leave zucchini on your neighbor’s doorstep.
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