Tomato Growing 2024

Anybody who knows

 

@BB3 I think it depends if you want to remove the seeds or not.

 

I must be fussy as I take off the skins and most of the seeds.

 

Not being fussy: I eat raw or cook skins seeds and all. No clatting round peeling, whizzing or sieving.
If making soup for a guest I might fish the skins out of their portion.

 

I don't peel or de-seed either. When making soup I use a stick blender and it ends up perfectly smooth.

 

Thanks all.

 

Thanks @JWK - not had it here luckily.

 

I'm the same as you @NigelJ - they get eaten with everything still there, whether raw or cooked, and the only time I ever remove some seed is when I make bruschetta, because it can make the bread a bit soggy if it's all left in.
I often add excess toms to sauces, but they just get cut up a little, and chucked in.

 

Physalis growing enormous, no mildew, no blight, nada. About 30 fruit on it, most wont ripen before the first frost so Ill need to get it indoors somehow...!! how!!



Blightpocalypse in the background along with old cucumbers. Apologies to everyone else I havent gotten the blighted plants down, its been bucketing every evening. Got a lot of tidying up to do

 

During the weekend I pulled out remaining basil, marigolds etc. and washed my greenhouse. Marigolds chopped and dug in. Then I properly watered the soil, and sowed phacelia next day. Come February phacelia will be chopped and dug in and compost topped up.

Overall I admire you, guys, who still have or had recently plants still producing. Mine somehow always stop growing in July. Still doing something wrong. Live and learn.

 

Sometimes it just depends on when you start, maybe you get going early, I rarely get fruit on outdoor toms before end June/ July so they keep going till later. Maybe yours run short on food /water ( do you go on holiday in July??) . So many factors, every season a bit different, there's always next year

 

I find the biggest governing factor is blight, if they dont they can go on for weeks until it gets really cold.