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

[GrannieAnnie]

Tomatoes: the test of  one's Endurance!

[GrannieAnnie]

[thifasmom]

Not to good been away for a week and come back to this

commiserations those pics have brought back bad memories from last year and will probably give me nightmares tonight. :'(

[saddad]

Nothing like that here .... yet!  :-X

[Robert_Brenchley]

Some of mine have green toms coming, but they were hit by the flood (I thought it was blight at first, but it isn't) and I don't know whether they'll recover enough to start growing again.

[littlegem]

b*gger

I haven't been on here for a while, this is the first thread I've read today and got ingrossed in it, dying to see the pics of TGG's tomatoes.  I read all 11 pages..............and nothing! it's the middle of Aug and he's been promising the pics for about a month now! grrrr!

My toms are slow, had a few maskota and gardeners delight out the hanging baskets.  loads of flowers, half full of unripe fruit.  Got roma, red cherry, alicante and golden sunrise in g/h. much the same as the o/door toms which are marmande, alicante, golden sunrise and red cherry,  a fair few flowers, a fair few fuit but none ripe!
Going away on Sat for 2 weeks, what's the betting that they will ripen while i'm away? hopefully my sis will store them for me till I get back, can't wait to start making my passata! yummy!    :)

[daileg]

well mine have been hit by blight there all in the greenhouse .
had them too close to the spuds ,all getting very large now but im cutting leaves of the plants at a speed you cant believe trying to save as many as i can trying every day to push it to the next.
or i might have to continue to ripen them in the airing cudboard in brown paper .

looks like it will be a complete sanitation of the green house this year get rid of any bacteria 

[thifasmom]

well mine have been hit by blight there all in the greenhouse .
had them too close to the spuds ,all getting very large now but im cutting leaves of the plants at a speed you cant believe trying to save as many as i can trying every day to push it to the next.
or i might have to continue to ripen them in the airing cudboard in brown paper .

looks like it will be a complete sanitation of the green house this year get rid of any bacteria 

my neighbour says if you hang banana skins in the greenhouse it speeds up the ripening process.

[Fork]

Sulphate of potash will speed up the ripening process too but if used too heavily will actually stop the fruit getting any bigger.

No blight here yet either,well not on the tomatoes.Potatoes have suffered though.

[ferg]

The inevitability of blight.........

Just paid a visit to the allotment and after a smith period lasting 9 days (according to blightwatch) almost all my toms have got blight. I've been picking off infected leaves for about a week now but it's now spread into the stems which I think means its game over.

Real shame because although they've been late this year, they are all really hanging with fruit waiting to ripen. Only ones that have ripened in any numbers have been Sungold which have been absolutely delicious.

I know that you can ripen green tomatoes once they're picked, But is this limited to tomatoes that are close to being ripe or can you do it with tomatoes that still have a long way to go.???

By the way, my one Ferline plant still appears untainted. Fingers crossed.....

[baronvon]

Sulphate of potash will speed up the ripening process too

where can i obtain this ? my tumbler has maybe 50 fruit on it but due to the weather in scotland (I`ve never seen so much rain !!) they just arent going red !

cheers

[baronvon]

stupid hat on, ignore me !!

cheers

[thegreatgardener]

Here is picture of yesterdays harvest of san marzano's for sauce. about 4 kg of them

[valmarg]

If it's any consolation thifasmom, I appreciate your pictures, as I didn't know what blight looked like.  I feel very sorry for you.  It must be devastating.

valmarg

[BillBarnes]

mine have done well but one variety has done far better than the rest with huge well shaped tomatoes.  I grew four plants from a packet given to me by a friend who'd been abroad.   They were called "gross libre"  which I suspect means something like "big lovely" but I have no idea where they came from.  Has anybody any experience of this variety.  I will of course be keeping seeds for next year having thrown the packet away.

[Amazin]

Can't seem to locate it anywhere on the web, Bill, any other details?

[thifasmom]

If it's any consolation thifasmom, I appreciate your pictures, as I didn't know what blight looked like.  I feel very sorry for you.  It must be devastating.

valmarg

whole up a second Those pics weren't mine it was part of a quote. i was telling the unfortunate recipient of the blight that i also knew what that was like, as i also experienced complete failure of my crop last year. so far this year nothing and i can assure you everything is crossed and prayers have been said, so hey you keep Your evil eye off my toms ;D, only joking.

but seriously check out my posts in this topic for my hopeful solution to the problem. i will let everyone know at the end of the season if it worked i do have on outdoor tom which is not covered as control ( i refuse to sacrifice more ;)).
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,44646.0.html

[growmore]

I gave about 4lb of toms away this morning ..Here is what I picked this evening ..
Shirley, Buffalo and think the yellow is Apricot brandy wine  which was  grown from saved seeds..Our zone unknown  ;)

[valmarg]

Ooops sorry pardon thifsasmom.  It doesn't matter who the crop belongs to, it must be devastating.  Have never had the misfortune to have anything more than botrytis.

valmarg

[Jeannine]

Bill Barnes..had your friend been to Oz by any chance, there is a very popular tomato there that I had sent over some time ago called Gross Lisse..it is isn't known outside of Australia  by this name but can be found as Trophy in pther parts of the world. I know the name is a bit different but could that be it.

The French Canadians call it  Big Smooth.

It is...

Old tomato. large. round and red.

XX Jeannine

[Hyacinth]

I'm growing Grosse Lisse (which I refer to as Fat Lizzy) in the greenhouse and I think it may have been Mikey who sent me seeds a couple of years ago? Lovely large fruit, but still green atm..there again, all my toms are green ::)