Tomato Crop

Lyn, it is always a battle with the slugs and bugs, but keep at it, the veg. out of the garden always tastes a thousand times better then the shop bought variety.

I picked some aubergines yesterday, only to stop the bugs having them.
Mum is going to make a nice chick-pea ad aubergine curry and I know those aubergines are going to taste the best in the world.
Might even pick 3 ripe tomatoes and use those in the curry to make the sauce.

 

Thats just it.
I don't think they taste better at all.
At least mine don't.
The tomatoes had none or very little taste and the lettuce was horrible.
Maybe we are conditioned to shop bought.
But I don't think I'll bother again not to just put them in the compost bin.
I tried really hard , I looked after them .
But with out using insecticide i don't think there is much point.
I even had caterpillars eating the nastursions sp? I put in for salads. :rolleyes: :D

 

I've just picked some of my tomatoes...I've had the best crop ever this year!! They are mainly cherry tomatoes...so delicious!!!

 

I'm growing Moneymaker inthe raised beds - large trusses at the mo, just starting to go red.

GardenersDelight in Pots, been eating these a while already!

Green tom chutney ahead me thinks!

 

For about 4 years now my tomatoes have been a total failure, ever since I put a load of well rotted stable manure into the greenhouse. Must post a picture when I find out how to do it, but they grow well for 3/4 weeks, then the top goes all thin, spindly, the leaves shrivel up, and the flowers don't set. Might be blight, but doesn't look like pictures of blight I've seen. Might be a hormone from the manure, but think a virus of some sort is the cause. Don't think there's a lot I can do about it if it is-anyone else had anything similar?

Aria

 

Such a shame to hear failures of tomato crops. It just does not make a lot of sense.
I am now giving away gardeners delight and tumblers.
With loads of trusses still developing I have pinched out the top growth and hope that those that are still green will at least ripen enough for the green chutney.
Robert

 

"Might be a hormone from the manure"

Have a look at JWK's problem with manure contaminated with herbicide:

http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=15248

 

Tomatoes still coming on strong with the promise of bucket loads to come.
Robert

 

I have just had to go to Tesco and buy 6 tomatoes. :o

The plant I have is now almost dead.
There are a few green tomatoes left on it.
But I'm not sure about eating them , I might just bin it. :(

 

Robert...will you shut up about your toms please....mine are still all green and I don't think there is any chance they will ripen.

 

Do you need one or two really ripe ones to give them encoragement?
Loads in Yorkshire...................

 

Sod off, heh,heh.

 

LoL
oK. I CAN TAKE THE HINT.....................Robert

 

We are all jealous Robert, but that doesn't make you a nice person in any case taunting us like that.
Though to be fair my Sun Baby variety has done well, been eating them for a while.
Also Alicante has got it's s**t together and is now ripening well.

Excuse bad language but I 'tis not fair having 30 lbs of green toms at this time of year

p.s. I think it's time for a green tomato autumn recipe thread!!!

biker

 

Over to you biker..I'll join in, cause my alicante's ain't playing. But I hope there are more answers than green tomato chutney.:thumb: