first stage tomato madness

[Robert_Brenchley]

What do you do with all the tomatoes?

[Robert_Brenchley]

[theothermarg]

I feel almost sane, only 12 varieties (just discovered spellcheck good int it)
only trouble is 8by6 gr/hs can't grow on lotty cus of bl**** not to be said aloud  they are indoors being nursed on the w/sill at the moment  cus they
looked unhappy out there and it's easier to talk to them too

[ruud]

I make sauce,eat them and put them in almost every recipe,got a big family and friends,neighbours and compleet strangers.I have just read that in every tomato contains a little bit anti-cancer,scientists discovered a protien that helps your body to repair cel stucture,wenn it is damaged.So that is also a good motivation to eat them,they are super healty.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Healthy indeed, we eat masses. The only drawback is, it's going to be a question of a glut for a fairly short time, then back to the market for them. This year at least I'll be poised to make masses of chutney at the first sign of blight. Last year I lost half the crop, as I was too unwell to cope when the plague hit. I hadn't even been able to stake them, they were sprawling all over the ground, and fruiting like mad anyway.

[grawrc]

I don't have a problem with the reasons for growing them. I just can't imagine how peeps can grow vast quantities on a lottie. And find time to process the crop. And space to freeze it. and so on

I had 6 Alicante and 8 Shirley in my greenhouse last year and it was mega crowded!!

[littlegem]

last year i made loads of pasta sauces and jarred them. delicious all the year round, i also made some passatas and froze them in the chinese take-away plastic tubs you get, gluts of toms are no match for me!   ;)

[grawrc]

Mmmm... my questionwas where do you grow them?

[jennym]

Last year, grew Roma, a cooking tomato - about 12 plants, outside, on a patch measuring 3 ft wide by about 15 ft long. I reckon I got about 8-9 kg per plant, the yield for the area used was pretty good.

[grawrc]

Now that's an answer i can understand! Thanks Jen! :)

[legless]

just the six varieties for me (at the moment, hopefully do another couple after we have moved but i have been allowed one gravel tray full of seedlings to keep me going until then).

marmande - huge yields and ripened well outdoors in the north east last year
yellow pear - lovely and look great
sungella - yum
tiny tim - for a mixed edible border
garden pearl - again for a mixed edible border
roma - brilliant flavour and good yields

all grew and ripened outdoors up north last year, so i expect great things in new down south garden!

[grawrc]

I'm beginning to think I should sow another 10 trays! ;D ;D