Topic: 2006 tomatoes

[Andy H]

I started with a little blue bucket and ended up with the trug full! It was heavy going back to the car! Thats just the plot, had as many from 2 greenhouses at home! ;D
We put through machine that takes out skin and pips and bag,seal & freeze.
Just add to stews etc.

(Still think she grew to many again this though)
3 freezerz full already.

[deboydoyd]

Selection of tomatoes including gardenpearl, alicante and costpluto fiorentino. The top one take's after me (I have a large nose).

[ruud]

Here are some more tomatoes

grushovski nice tom from russia

khurma

naygous nice black tom

wapsipinicon very strange tom with a fuzzy skin,tasts sweet for a tom

jersey sunrise great crop nice tom.

[Mrs Ava]

Golden Green


Mississippi love apple


White Beauty


Trug full of alicante, gardeners delight, reisentraube, white beauty, super marmande, orange berry, golden green and yellow cherry.

[supersprout]

Now I know why you need a hectare EJ! :o

[Mrs Ava]

The aim is to freezer 52 bags of tom pulp for a years use.  ;D  We eat a lot of things with toms throughout the year, and last year I had to resort to tinned toms during early summer before the first toms were ready.  This year, fingers crossed!  I am over half way there and I still have a bucket full to cook down! :o

[Curryandchips]

Just trying to grasp the quantities you are talking about, I estimate that you are talking about 3-4 gallons of puree. Not beyond the realms of reality, since I have that amount of green tom curry ...  :D

[Andy H]

wish I had weighed mine this year.
Must have had 200lb...............
Thank god for my tom mashing machine! ;D

[moonbells]

Eeek! How much freezer space do you folks have???

I've two uprights and they're both full already, and I haven't been able to turn off the secondary one this year at all.

moonbells

[Andy H]

3 standard size uprights and a chest freezer!
All full of allotment stuff now.

[Mrs Ava]

One upright and one huge chest freezer - an old one, 6 foot long, 3 foot wide, 4 foot deep.  With careful stacking and packing, you can squeeze a fair amount into it.

[Andy H]

And every year we organise the chest to start with so we can get to everything and know where it all is.

NOPE!

Never happens, jan=sweetcorn
feb=peas
mar=beans
apr=toms
may=more beans............

just on the last stuff from last year now, making stew each week to bung everything in it to use old stock.

Little toms freeze in bag and the pop the marbles into stew.