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
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!
I watched the programme to and thought, "oh I need to grow some of those!" They looked great.
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
Did anyone know what the big yellow beefsteak one was as well?
Green Zebra - definitely!. But not hugely prolific & needs picking at the right time.
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? :-\
Nothing to lose?
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
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
Aw bless ya, hope its not long before you're mended so you can bounce around the lottie ;) :D
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
I'm giving evergreen a go this year! have high hopes xx
I've never grown a green tomato before. How do you know when they are ripe? ???
They lighten up considerably... almost translucent... Green sausage was great when I grew it in the poly..
;D
Slight yellowing.
And a gentle feel!
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..... :-\
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
Tomatillo maybe?
HFW used them in a lot of his programms. Predominately an addition to his Salsas.
Great in chutney too!
Had a very nice reply from Jamie olivers team re the varieties that were used in his tomato salad. Bit of book push, but a good reply. All those who guessed green zebra can go to the front of the class.
"Thanks for your email and enquiry.
The complete range of fruit and vegetables that Jamie grows are listed
at the back of his book "Jamie At Home" available now from all good
book
retailers. But here's a small sample for you:
Tomatoes:
Yellow - Yellow pear, Lemon boy
Green - Green zebra
Pinky-purple - Prudens purple
Orange - Auriga
Dark red/almost brown - Chocodel
I hope this helps you a little!
Keep growing and keep cooking!"
Does anyone have Prudens Purple, Auriga or Chocodel???
I think I am going to have to google as haven't heard of these. :-\
Chocodel = brown berry and I have these already.
Prudens Purple available from heirloom seeds a USA company.
Still looking for Auriga
I have Aurega, Prudens Purple, Green Zebra. Yellow Pear
XX Jeannine
Auriga orange are 75p per pack from Park Seeds, i might have some spares if you like, ill check in my seed library!!!
Question: if you could only grow two tomato plants, would a green tomato be one of them?
No, if only two but yes if I could grow 5 XX Jeannine
Gunnerbee thanks for the offer of Auriga toms - but I received my order from Baker Creek today - I think this will keep me going for a while I had forgotten I ordered another 9 different types of toms after the programme. Now have pink, green, more yellow, orange, and purple to go with the red, yellow and black types I was already growing. If not quite Jamies types I think I can create the same visual effect. :) Hopefully!!