Tomato Growing Thread 2012

I forgot post the last pick of Koraliks, and I've already been seriously snacking on them:




I've be covering up my bed of these to protect against frost as long as possible.

 

I can see a batch of Wonderful Cream of Tomato Soup in the making there Armandii. With a hunk of homemade wholemeal bread ....

 

Boy! Are we going to miss our toms when they've finished.

 

Too true Sheal....i'll have to wait months for a tomato sandwich

 

Not going to risk the shop ones then Loli?

 

No chance Sheal...can't remember the last time i had a shop Tom in a sandwich....actually i do but by the time i'd cut the 'core' out the middle and chewed my way through the skin i don't know why i bothered

 

My last four have started ripening, NO Green tomato chutney this year?

 

My 'pickings' today and a few more where they came from...just hung some banana skins up to help the greenies along

 

All my plot tomatoes (with the exception of Koraliks) have been wiped out by blight, but this runt of a Sungold plant that was chucked into a pallet compost bin ages ago decided to thrive, burst out the sides, and give me a few late Sungold toms.

Sadly, it also has now started to succumb to blight, despite no Blightwatch warnings being issued for either my area, or any surrounding areas for about 3 months.

 

Thanks John....i do love growing my Alicantes....on the whole all my toms have done me proud...only lost my Maskotkas to blight so i think i've been lucky

 

Touch and go as to whether my odd looking Striped German will ripen sufficiently to find out what they taste like.
Everything else is by now a little worse for wear.
My best tomato this year came from seed saved from a supermarket tomato which was complete with the infuriatingly unhelpful label of just 'vine tomato'. I have no idea whether it was an F1 or not but the tomatoes I got from the seed tasted wonderful and I saved more seed from this year's crop.

 

Hi Kevin, you CAN finish off the ripening process indoors! They've started! So they will finish!