Tomatoes in my pond!!

[linspins]

We had a birthday party for dd yesterday, she's 4 now, and one of her darling friends picked all my outdoor tomatoes and threw them in the (small fetid) pond. I didn't see them there until this morning - otherwise I'd have fished them out and washed them ...but I'm thinking it's too late now, they've probably been nibbled by bugs.
I just wanted to share my EXTREME annoyance with this. I'd nurtured and watered those tomatoes all summer, and they were lovely and big and finally about to ripen. GRRRRRRRRR!!
Sorry if this post shouldn't be in the gardening section (is there a cross rant section? )I thought other gardeners would sympathise.

No-one around today to share my misery..... Poor tomatoes...

Oh, how absolutely miserable. You must be feeling murderous.

Thanks Grendelsmum! I am feeling decidedly cheesed off - and I have strong suspicions as to which (not-so) sweet child it was. I can't say anything to his Mum though, she'd be so ashamed of him.

So sorry for your poor toms. You say your outdoor tomatoes - do you have some indoor ones too? Maybe you can transfer all your love and care to them. I know its not the same though.

Have you got a compost heap? I put my pond tomatoes on the compost heap last year and this year I've had loads of tomato plants coming up everywhere, which is lucky because my DD also has a penchant for tomato-chucking.

If you're anywhere in my vicinity, you're welcome to some of my overflowing bounty of tomatoes - I've just been round to my neighbours with a bagful.

But I see you're in Kent. The tomatoes probably wouldn't make it that far!

I've got some in the greenhouse too (- which aren't ripening either!)
Thanks anyway Grendelsmum.
It's been a bit of a bad year for my veg. I'm fairly new to it all and so far: potatoes that we grew all turn totally mushy upon cooking unless roasted, my courgette only produced male flowers until recently, when it grew 2 tiny courgettes that were BOTH eaten by squirrels, the runner beans went in too early and were severely damaged by frost and then ravaged beyond belief by blackfly (although have rallied in the last month and are finally cropping! Hurrah). And the sweetcorn stopped growing half way through- but we ate it anyway. Now my toms are in the pond....
It's enough to put a girl off grow-your-own. Might as well buy some organic veg from Waitrose??

linspins,
I am darn sarf too and it's been wet and cold overnight and the tommies don't like it. Try putting a banana or a ripened red tomato with your green ones in the greenhouse - that should get them ripening up. If they don't go red you can always make green tomato chutney.