2016 Tomato Growing

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My plants are outside guess I'm just unlucky or useless at growing toms had it all this year blight, blossom end rot thank you for your advise

 

Today's harvest

 

What's the name of that long red ones? Tasty?

 

A whole bowl of tomatoes dehydrated! Not much in there but they are so extremely tasty. Loving them chopped up on cheese on toast.

 

I'm a chef don't understand why you would dehydrate toms cut them into quarters tiny bit of sugar and salt and blush them in a really low oven or on a sunny windowsill until they weep then keep them in a stererlized jar with olive oil and garlic they taste so much better and the oil gets better and better just my thoughts I'm old school when I first started cooking we never had a microwave

 

Storing the toms in oil, especially with garlic carries a high risk of botulism poisoning, that's why I choose to fully dehydrate them.

 

The pH of the semi-dried tomatoes needs to be below 5.5 to remove the risk of botulism. One issue is that many modern varieties of tomato have been bred to taste sweet through having low level of plant acids. I believe Americans in the central states, where bottling toms is popular, buy citric acid in to lower the pH to just under 5.5 The risk of botulism is very slight, but it's very nasty.

 

Ok, will grow it next year, I like both sungold and black cherry

 

I have been squishing about 6 a day little bleeps! Have got brown ones which are easier to spot than the green ones

 

T&M Suncherry, unlike many cherry toms they'll all be OK for eating if the whole lot are left until the complete truss are all ripe.



Reckon this is going to be my biggest tomato this year, it's about 6" diameter and still growing.