THE TOMATO GROWING THREAD 2018

I live in Kent with Tetters

 

No sign of blight, manx marvels doing well outdoors, san marzano's ok and my "giants" ain't doing too bad either! I think neglecting them may have paid dividends?

 

My 3 crimson cherry’s are still going strong outside - they’re against a very sheltered wall, still picking handfuls every day!

 

Harvested the last of the normal tomatoes today.



They could have been left on the vine for longer but I decided to pull up the plants because I needed the space for another crop.

 

Said goodbye to my polytunnel tomatoes for the 3rd time yesterday afternoon. The 1st & 2nd times I picked 90% of everything remaining and have still managed to continue picking about 2 punnets a week, plus get another 2 or 3 from those ripening indoors (all either have, or are about to ripen).

Yesterday I picked every single green tomato. In my garden a short while ago the temperature was just about to dip below zero, the sky is clear and there's no wind. In the street cars are covered in thick frost. Temperatures at my edge of village plot will be a couple of degrees lower.

Tomato growing may be over, but we have a bowl full of ripe tomatoes and enough green ones to ripen well into November.

 

I thought I would be way ahead of you lot down south re frosts but no! Last night was our 1st and like Scrungee I can see thickish ice on the windscreens of our vehicles.
My Sungold were still going a pace but not too sure how they will have fared overnight in the unheated greenhouse. I'll find out today. Picked my last 8! cucumbers 2 days ago. They have been ridiculously good this season. There will be lots of green Sungold, I'll hopefully get the ones that have started to colour a little to ripen indoors, the solid green ones will go into chutney which I'll be making along with some of the massive crop of apples we got. Certainly there have been winners and losers this amazing summer. Mostly winners for me as I was lucky and able to water copiously for weeks.

 

Oh see you are dehydrating the green tomatoes. What do you use those for @JWK?

 

I agree, the late ones have little flavour.

I cleared out my greenhouse tomatoes a few weeks ago. The greenhouse is now full of citrus and other moderately tender stuff.

First frost here too last night.