Storing tomatoes in wood ash

umm, I am sorry I found this youtube video which doesn't seem like it would work in our temps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fttb4UNzi5c

But I  discovered that Okra can be preserved for a month in wood ash on this forum thread,  and am intrigued with their hanging tomatoes

https://permies.com/t/60968/kitchen/Stor...ash-months

One of the comments on the youtube video is
My great grandma did this, she wrapped them in newspaper, then put them in a box with cold wood ash, then in the root cellar. But she checked that all the time, and only did it with green ones. As they ripened she'd use them. And she never stored other stuff in the box with them.

Maybe????