They're green on the vine. Typically they ripen to red on the vine, but we had our first frost of the year last night, so we picked all the green ones.

Tom's grandmother has been a canning/gardening maven for years, and according to her if you wrap the green tomatoes in newspaper and keep them in the basement, they'll ripen (to red) in due time. Supposedly they do the ripening at *night*, which I find intriguing!

Anyhow, I'll be sure to post one way or the other regarding the validity of the ripening-in-a-cold-dark-basement theory.