Jamie Oliver's Green Tomatoes

[princescruffster]

I watched Jamie Olivers programme last night which focussed on tomatoes.  He used some pretty green tomatoes in his salad.  Does anyone know if they were just unripe or can you grow green tomatoes (that are green when ripe)? If so, does anyone know the variety.
???
Thanks

Nicola

[princescruffster]

[Biscombe]

There are lots of varieties of green tomatoes, and all are mostly green when ripe.

The only green tom I tried last year was cherokee green, I was knocked out by the taste! needless to say I'm growing lots more this year thanks to rentawreck!

[Doris_Pinks]

I watched the programme to and thought, "oh I need to grow some of those!" They looked great.

[ferg]

He he. I bet a lot of people thought that.

I thought I had my tomato seeds all bought for this year, saw the program and had to go online to order some more. Green Zebra, Purple Cherokee and Purple Russian from Plants of Distinction! :)

Just need to work out where to put them now.....

Ferg

[Suzanne]

Did anyone know what the big yellow beefsteak one was as well?

[tim]

Green Zebra - definitely!. But not hugely prolific & needs picking at the right time.

[Suzanne]

I have been a bit nerdy and asked for a list of the varieties grown and shown on the programme from his website. Now should I hold my breath?  :-\

[tim]

Nothing to lose?

[valmarg]

Green Grape is the only variety we've grown.

But for varieties of tomatoes Plants of Distinctions's Simply Vegetables catalogue has the widest number of varieties of the catalogues I receive.  But only has Green Zebra and Green Grape green varieties.

valmarg

[cleo]

I`m no fan of Mr Oliver but`Romano Pantanesco` is one suggested to be best slightly under ripe.

Big Yellow Beefsteak- Yellow Brandywine?-tricky cove that,under ripe and it`s tasteless,over ripe and it`s all mush-but when it`s baby bear it`s just right.

You can tell I`m geting really fed up with not being able to walk ;D

[star]

Aw bless ya, hope its not long before you're mended so you can bounce around the lottie ;) :D

[Jeannine]

Cleo, I agree with you about the Yellow Brandywine but I find the  Platfoot strain of Yellow Brandywine is much nicer, however I have to say that Yellow Mortgage Lifter is perhaps my current  large yellow favourite

There are many green and yellow toms, I have quite a few in my collection. On the whole I think the green are nicer than the yellow. I especially like Aunt Rubies German Green ,Green Zebra and Green Sausage but there are many to choose from.

It is a lot of fun to try different tomatoes.

XX Jeannine

Oops forgot Evergreen which I ma growing again this year, smashing flavour

[Biscombe]

I'm giving evergreen a go this year! have high hopes xx

[ferg]

I've never grown a green tomato before. How do you know when they are ripe? ???

[saddad]

They lighten up considerably... almost translucent... Green sausage was great when I grew it in the poly..
;D

[tim]

Slight yellowing.

And a gentle feel!

[Deb P]

I grew Green Grape in pots last year, first time growing green tomatoes. By the time I realised they were ripe, they all had blight! So never got to taste one..... :-\

[Suzanne]

Looks like I'll be buying seeds again - all these new ones to try! I had only just got into the black toms for this year my Boxing Day mega buying spree from Baker Creek, and then a few from seed swops.  ;D

[killerflies]

Tomatillo maybe?

HFW used them in a lot of his programms. Predominately an addition to his Salsas.

[Biscombe]

Great in chutney too!