How are your tomatoes doing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ugly gourd]

mine are poorly poorly :(

[ugly gourd]

[Mr Smith]

I put 16 'Beefsteak' plants in a small poly lean-to and I'm very pleased with the results, I will be having anther picking session on Saturday and fried toms for mi breaky on Sunday :)

[Tyke]

i planted 6 Balconi mini-toms this year - some yellow and some red. Put them in greenhouse until May and then moved a few outside. Only just started cropping a few weeks ago, but i am getting a handful every few days. They seem to have taken a long time to ripen - is this the lack of sun?

I would reckon we prob got a month left of tomato growing...

[zeed]

Mine are well grown, with lots of flowers and teeny tomatoes. These are outdoor varieties, but even the greenhouse ones are few and far between. Most of the ones on our allotments are the same. I thought it was just me! Not much sun for ripening. Its not for lack of watering either!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Mine are dead. RIP.

[Borlotti]

Mine are ready to be burnt.  I AM NOT GROWING THEM NEXT YEAR.

[nittynora]

Ours are hanging in there......  plenty of green toms and a few ripening slowly ......... orange "sungold" good, yellow "golden sunrise" and "ildi" coming .......... still waiting for red "hector" to colour.

Must find a good recipe for green tomato chutney, fried green tomatoes ...... etc......

[Jeannine]

I put some recipes on a couple of weeks ago for fried green tomatoes, two variations that I do, also a recipe for making a sweet pie filling with the greens. I made chutney today  .

XX Jeannine

[nittynora]

Thanks Jeannine.......... I'll definitely need those! ;D

[DAVIESFOZZIE]

just pulled up all of my tom plants from grow bags in the greenhouse all infested with blight and i have had a major infestation of slugs snails and even caterpillars totally destroyed

[baronvon]

getting there slowly, ripening a pain but i`ve but 3 bananas in the tumbling tom and must admit they are ripening faster



if it doesnt happen there is always photoshop lol



cheers

[DAVIESFOZZIE]

just threw out all my plants all have had small fruit eatenby slugs and cterpillars others fallen to disease in my greenhouse too wet too damp

[ninnyscrops]

Is that why they are called greenhouses? Two of them full of green toms and we don't eat chutney  :'(

[Dadnlad]

Outdoor toms at the plot will make a lovely bonfire tomorrow :'(  we nearly had a great year judging by the amount of green and ripening toms
Plot g/h toms are great  - Zogola/Earls Faux/Cherokee Purple ;D
Jap Trifele in Grandma's g/h are nearly ripe  - cant wait, maybe next week ? 8)

Next year will be even better ::)

[kitty]

hmmm...dont think we've done too bad in lincolnshire.......my toms were a little slow to start ripening but once they got growing they went like a rocket-did the last big picking last night cos the plants seem to be going over now,
costolutos,gardeners d.,red pear but the best 'do-er'has been tigerella
kitty
xx

[Debs]

All mine have been grown inside greenhouse. They are looking gr  8) 8)eat although have not ripened yet.

Patiently waiting for the sun to shine, shine, SHINE 8) ::)

[Debs]

whoops ;D

[grawrc]

Thought I'd share a pic of my first born with you! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :'(

[pippy]

Bless it Grawc !   Was the bottle opener for the christening?! ;)

[grawrc]

got it in one! Drowning my sorrows. ;D