Tomato Growing Thread 2022

Was away for a few days, decent harvest to come back too. Also dehydrating them for the first time, what temperature is best? I was doing 45c, I think it goes up to 70c but that would cook them.

Also picked the first ripe outside tomato, a crimson crush. Was extremely tasty and crunchy even though it tasted perfectly ripe. The plant is blight affected but seems to be battling on.

Also last to ripen plant in the greenhouse, a dwarf parfait, a green beefsteak. Really low yield wont grow again

 

@Hanglow what a nice thing to come back to. They look great! I did my dehydrating at 50 but this is my first time and I was using an instapot to dehydrate not a specific dehydrator.

I think this deserves a little tune to celebrate

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=86&v=BoDVEIUR4xs&feature=emb_logo

 

Yep - you'll need to put your teeth in @pete
Jenny namaste

 

Some more new to me varieties.

On the left, Delicious. This type once held the record for largest tomato at 7pounds I think. This has been broken by other varieties since then. Apparently the average weight is 1 pound, this one is nowhere near that and not many fruit per plant, I might give it another go next year but there will be other outside contenders. The other one is lucky Tiger, apparently tangy and very pretty with orange, green and gold colouring.

 

This is a video I shot in my greenhouse in the past week, just click on the link and turn on the sound if you want to hear me waffling on.
Headless gardeners greenhouse crop - YouTube

 

Today's haul is going to take some time. Glad things are now slowing down, freezer is full...

 

Being up in the North East of Scotland I reckon I'm a week or two behind most of you, just hope we don't get an early frost, we had the Aurora Borealis last night, winter not far away!.

 

This site has Tomato Borealis, multicolored!!!

 

JWK,

The freezer is full!.

There are still masses of tomatoes, both in the greenhouse and outside so we have decided to go ahead and buy a dehydrator to preserve the remaining tomatoes and chilis. Following on from the advice you gave in a previous dehydrator posting, we decided to follow your lead and buy the Andrew James dehydrator. I also ordered four more trays and twelve silicon sheets in case we have a go at fruit leather.

I just have a couple of questions: -

Do you salt your tomatoes before dehydration and do you add any herbs (Oregano, Thyme...)?

Any other tips would be appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation.

Ademission

 

@Ademission don't rule out making paste yet. I've done loads of dehydrated tomatoes, now filled my freezer with deseeded tomatoes in ziplock bags. So I am now making paste using up 10ib of tomatoes at a time. I'm reckoning I need to reduce the remainIng fruit down to the smallest size possible. Anyone got a spare black hole available...?

 

We've just had tomato and Anaheim pepper soup for lunch, that used up a lot of fruit and tasted delicious.

 

I haven't been able to "harvest" enough tomatoes from my 10 remaining plants for a meal even!