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

[growmore]

My toms are a little late this year . Took this pic this morning I noticed one or 2 are on the turn .Still a bit early to take salt pot with me. :)
Types Shirley and Buffalo..

[growmore]

[jennym]

Everyone's pics look so good  :)
My tomatoes, sown & planted out a little late are all flowering well, and I see some have started to set fruit.
As to yield, well, sometimes theres good years and sometimes bad. Grown outside, sown and planted really early, I'm fairly certain I've had 16lbs (approx 8 kgs) per plant from Roma and Incas plum tomatoes - no trusses removed or any care really except keeping them off the ground. Don't even water them after they're established, but then suppose that's one of the advantages of a clay soil (pretty dreadful to work with, but does hold the water well).
But then last year was awful, remember we all got blight really early, around first week July? Lets hope this year is better.

[tim]

WOW Jim!!

So why, Jenny, can I not get half that harvest? Even INDOORS! Or maybe I haven't measured well. I'll try a plant this year.

[Gobby]

Loads of flowers, but not one tom yet, think i got a "inadaquete" pack! have some in the greenhouse that have started to wilt..think i'll lose the lot..still cuc's comming along lovely!

[Deb P]

I've been excitedly planning the harvest of my first ripe tomato for the past week, a Jaune Flamme....watched it slowly turn a burnt orange colour....couldn't wait any longer this afternoon, so picked it and turned it over....only to find a slimey had beaten me to it and knawed the bottom off! >:(

[Chris Graham]

I cant really complain, so far been quite good.

Had may be 20 Sungolds and 1 plum tomato, which I dont know the name of.

"Jelly Bean" tomato will be interesting this year.





Jelly Bean-

[electric landlady]

Fantastic pictures everyone! Yum!

Last year was the first time I tried to grow outdoor tomatoes, and as everyone knows blight was a nightmare and they all died only a few weeks after being planted out. I nearly didn't bother this year as it was so depressing seeing my poor babies nutured from seed going brown and frazzling up before my very eyes.

However I DID bother and (touch wood) so far they are going crazy out there...every day they seem to have grown another 6 inches and I have loads of tiny green ones. I'm hoping for a good crop of gardeners delight (my favourite) and 2 others I have never grown before due to lack of space until I got the allotment: marmande (seem to be developing in all sorts of wierd shapes) and tigerella (started off quite slowly but are catching up fast).

Next year I want to try a plum variety and if possible some more unusual ones....the trouble is I want to try ALL of them. But there's only so many tomatoes I can force my folks to eat.  :)

Tomatoes'n'custard anyone?

[nittynora]

Mmmmm sounds lovely! ;D

Ours arer starting to ripen now - 1st few sungold were snarfed by daughter last weekend... a few G delight are currently a pale orange colour

....... HURRY UP ! ! ! ! !  Please!!

[Jeannine]

LOL Electric Landlady...I can give you a recipe for green tomato pie..no kidding, it is actually very good. with spices and topped with custard it is one we enjoy.XX Jeannine

[littlebabybird]

LOL Electric Landlady...I can give you a recipe for green tomato pie..no kidding, it is actually very good. with spices and topped with custard it is one we enjoy.XX Jeannine

Jeannine  i would love some green tomatoe recipes,  is it ok to eat the green tomatoes that the plant drops? (they get knocked by the  children)
lbb

[Jeannine]

Hi, use your usual pie pastry..

It is one of my US recipes so is measured in cups. not by weight but by volume, if you don't have a measuring cup, use anything that would hold just 250 ml of water and use that.

For filling use


Sliced  firm green tomatoes, sliced thin and with skin left on. but cut the stem end off ,use about 3 cups full.

3/4 cup of soft brown sugar

1/2 cup molasses

1/4 cup water

2 tablespoons plain flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Cover the tomato slices with boiling water for about 10  minutes then drain, place them in an unbaked pastry shell, mix the spices, sugar. flour and water together and pour over the slices, cover with top crust and bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for a further 30 minutes.

Fried Green tomatoes..oh there are so many variations on this one..here is my favourite.

Slice toms into 1/4 inch slices, dip in beaten egg, then in flour to which I add a bit of finely grated Parmesan cheese(not too  much as it will get too salty)

Fry in butter or what you personally prefer,( my favourite is goose fat)and serve with bacon and egg.

They take longer to cook than red ones so allow for that when frying..not too fast or they will be browned before cooked through.

Yes ., you can eat the fallen ones. it is only the foliage that you can't eat.

After this they go into chutney, or a green tomato mincemeat, or a relish that is chopped smaller than the chutney and ends up more like a thick chunky sauce.

There is a start for you, I do have others.

XX Jeannine

[littlebabybird]

excellent, thank you Jeannine
lbb

[glosterwomble]

So green toms are ok to eat then?? I knocked some little gardeners delight off by accident and wasn't sure if I could eat them. Not enough to make a chutney out of but I can fry them and eat them then?

[Jeannine]

No problem at all, we specifically pick some green for  some things. XX Jeannine

[Robert_Brenchley]

Green toms sliced and fried aren't bad at all.

[GrannieAnnie]

Hi, use your usual pie pastry..

It is one of my US recipes so is measured in cups. not by weight but by volume, if you don't have a measuring cup, use anything that would hold just 250 ml of water and use that.

For filling use


Sliced  firm green tomatoes, sliced thin and with skin left on. but cut the stem end off ,use about 3 cups full.

3/4 cup of soft brown sugar

1/2 cup molasses

1/4 cup water.......

Jeanine, what does a green tom. pie taste like with those seasonings?  Apple pie?

[Jeannine]

No not quite apple although the texture is the same but I don't put  brown   sugar in my apple and also no molasses, so the taste is different, taste is more like shoo fly but not the same.

[Fork]

These are my first few tomatoes picked at 10:20pm last night by torchlight!

Strange you may think but I work shifts and I needed to water after work last night....I dont trust anyone else to do it.

[Jeannine]

Here is the other Fried Green tom recipe I mentioned.this is a bit more seasoned than the first one and is probably the most common one.. This is my favourite by far but is more faffy to get the ingredients together so i sometimes use the other one if rushed.

2 1bs green firm toms..large ones are best.
1/2 cup plain flour
1 cup of cornmeal..you can find this is in the UK..it gives the crunch to the slices, which is very authentic.
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon black pepper and the same amount of lemon pepper if you have it..if not double the black
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons of icy water
2 tablespoons butter AND 1/2 cup oil oil oil for frying.

Slice the toms into 1/2 inch rounds.

Mix the dry ingredients in1 bowl and in another beat the eggs with the water.

Heat the butter and oil.

Dip slices into dry mixture, them eggy mixture, then again into dry

Fry  gently and slowly  till golden brown.

Drain on paper towels.
These are good cooled to room temp if you have leftovers.

By the way, if making Green tomato Pie, you can use half apples and half green tomatoes if you are short of green toms.

XX Jeannine

[debster]

thank you Jeannine
fork what variety of toms are those???