Tomato ripening problem

[Garden Manager]

I need some advice. I grow tomatoes both in my greenhouse and outside in a warm sunny part of the garden. The problem is whilst the outdoor plants have produced loads of ripe fruits so far this season, the indoor ones have hardly ripened at all. I reckon about 10 ripe fruits from 9 plants.

All the plants are growing in pots of loam based compost of equal size, no different to any other year. All the plants have been fed and watered the same amount. The green house itself is in a warm sunny spot but is shaded with shading paint.  I am wondering if the shading itself might be a problem, not leting enough sun through to the fruits, so could removing some of the shading help or is something else going on here?

Advice please.

[Garden Manager]

[Jitterbug]

I was reading Bob Flowerdew's companion book and believe it or not he says that stinging nettles grown as a companion plant to tomatoes helps them ripen.  Sure wish I had read this before I pulled the one sprouting in the greenhouse ;D

Also borage near tomatoes helps prevent some kind of worm - can't remember its name - but I quickly popped a boarage plant into the greenhouse and replaced the marigolds which the slugs had chomped to bits.

Good luck ! 

Jitterbug

[Mrs Ava]

I am sure that someone on this site many moons ago showed us a cutting, or was a sciency person (maybe the vanished John Miller) and they said that toms won't ripen if the temps are toooo high.  However, patience Richard, loads of time left for them to ripen in your greenhouse - I was picking in December last year!  Surely you don't want them all at once, a nice constant steady stream seems the way to go.  The ones outside are probably ripening faster thanks to the deep root run and brighter days.