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Originally Posted by Snadger  Sorry for resurrecting this thread but I love sundried tomatoes and I am not particularily keen on eating them fresh! With this in mind I am growing some Roma type tomatoes but I don't have a dehydrator and the oven method seems a bit of a faff!
I was thinking of halving them and sun drying them on a high shelf in the greenhouse? I would imagine I would need to put net or fleece over them to keep the bugs out, but wondered roughly how long it should take?
There must be someone on here who's tried it to good effect?   |
Only problem I can think of with drying tomatoes this way is that the atmosphere in the greenhouse is moist, which will not help with drying tomatoes. I think they will tend to rot instead. Daughter and I made loads of tomato and chilli sauces last year by roasting toms, chillies and spices in the oven and then blending. Obviously this isn't sun dried tomatoes as such but I hope it helps. If you really want dried toms, then you need a hot sunny autumn, wire racks in the sun and wind so they dry properly, and then put them into jars with oil/vinegar.