Tomatoes

[nikkie]

Anyone elses plants flowering?

it was a very ancient one - from my working days ( trousers and smart shoes.

I waer socks now and comfy shoes

hello!

and a belated thank you for the heads up on what the brown patches are. just hope ive been watering enough otherwise coz theres loads of greenies on there and i REALLY want to eat them! (please turn red!)

had a wee giggle over peduncle clips or whatever they are. i use pipe cleaners! (no-one taught me that, im just shmart, me)

Why are they taking so long to turn red??? I have a huge crop of tomatoes and they are all green, have I done something wrong or is this normal and I just have to have patience?

I have mainly green ones, only turning one or two at a time!

just got back from the weekend at The Big Chill festivalwith the kids in tow...to find a crop of red tomatoes waiting for us!! hurrah!!

we have harvested, so far, 6 beefsteak toms, 2 cherry toms, 4 green peppers, and a total of 5 broad beans.

so thats a salad for dinner then, hehe.

My problem is that my tomatoes don't make to the salad as I eat them first

I spotted a green tomato at the weekend. As this is my first foray into growing vegetables (from seed), I was so excited that DH had to come into the garden to see what the fuss was all about.

If I'm lucky and get a healthy crop of tomatoes, should I just pick them as I need them? If not, what is the best way to store them until they are required? I would hate to see them become rotten before I could use them.

TIA

been steadily harvesting away for about a week or so now. marvellous. isnt it satisfying?!

from the lack of activity on this thread i would say youre all harvesting too, hence the reduced need to post anxiously on here

speedy - sorry, im as much of a newbie at growing as you so no help to you at all . good luck!

my tomatoes are just going orange ,will no doubt be juicy and red next week when we're on holiday

My toms once they start to turn seem to go red overnight so you should have some by Tues!

Harvest time chez iota

right now we are enjoying

• fried tomatoes on toast for breakfast
• cheese and tomato sandwiches for lunch
• pasta and tomato sauce for dinner

and may be for some days to come...........

mine came on great during the heatwave but have stopped I need sunshine!

well im not overly impressed with my beefsteak toms' flavour. but the cherry ones are yummy, and theres loads of em.
harvested my pot of potatoes and had them for dinner tonight. SO GOOD!!!

am so impressed with myself

We are just getting some ripe beefsteaks but I'm being a bit too eager and picking them before they are fully ripe.

my beefsteaks are still very green

Hi Ladies,
Hope you don't mind me hijacking,but my tomatoes are still very green and there's so sign of them changing colour soon.Does anyone know if they can be picked when they're green and ripened up somehow,please? I was told to wrap them in newspaper and leave them on a window sill but I haven't tried that yet.

a couple of my toms are going red. the rest better hurry up, i am going on hol in 6 days!

just harvested another dozen this morning

We are inundated with tomatoes at the moment (we have 5 plants). We had 2 varieties - lets call them "small" and "medium", for the sake of tachnical accuracy - and have been harvesting them for the last 3 weeks and they are just lovely. One thing that has been great is that the children (4 & 2)have really enjoyed it - love watering them, love picking them, and graze on them straight from the plant when they are out playing.

My courgettes on the other hand......

only 5 plants Anchovy.

We have 18 [smug emoticon]

Blimey! I think if we had 18 we would had to have one of those roadside stalls!

Anchovy -I'm thinking of supplying the local supermarket

It was all a bit of a mistake really - we grew some - dh wanted beefstead and I wanted normal, then my mum gave us half a dozen plants as well.

We had 20 originally - it seemed mean to kill any of them off, but in the end the 2 weakest were culled

next yr I'm going for more variety of veg - and fewer tomatoes - might grow some peppers nd cucumbers

I did tomatoes, courgettes, carrots and rocket this year. Rocket and tomatoes very successful, carrots not bad but a bit dull and the jury is still out on the courgettes. I think next year we will try potatoes, radishes and pumpkins. Also will look at staggering the sowings! By 2012 I'll be self sufficient and by 2015 I'll be elbowing Martin Fowler aside with my barrow in the market (obviously I'll be looking to you to supply me with cheap tomatoes )