Stupid tomatoes, grumble grumble.

[Kathyis6incheshigh]

Anyone want to join me in grumbling about their tomatoes?

I've just given up on most of mine after only having about 2 dozen edible ones.

Gardener's Delight seem to be just about still ok, had a few nice Tamina but mostly they rotted, and I didn't get a single edible one off 3 Supermarmande plants. Hrrumph.

We have had about 6 red edible Tiger Toms, but the rest are green and have been picked to make green tomato chutney.

Are Tiger Toms good? Should I grow those next year, since I'm def not going to waste my time on Marmande again?

Sensible of you to pick while still green instead of leaving them there to rot. THing is, last year I picked half a carrier bag full green because we were away in October and they all ripened over the course of the month, so I assumed I just had to be patient.

All mine got washed out

We've got four tomato plants which are producing about 1 tomato per week between them.

Dd's beetroot also came up as just leaves and roots, poor thing she was so disappointed.

Have just been to my Mum's house and got absolutely loads of tomatoes from her plants, and they are v yummy too. Still loads left which are green, but I guess will ripen since the others have.
I will ask her which variety she used - btw they are planted in the ground and not in a gro-bag, do you think this would make any difference?

Yes please do ask her MingMing - I would love to know!

Mine are in growbags, but if anything I would have expected ones in the ground to do worse as in a growbag you're more in control of how much water they get.

I have had a really good crop this year, although I am not sure what variety they all are.

They were from QVC 2 haning and 3 in bag type pots. I was really unsure as we are in the frozen north, but I am pleased. They are only tiny though

Mine had a shakey start with blossom end rot & I thought it was going to be a terrible year. However I moved them from their growbags to the soil (They do better planted out - they can spread their roots better and need less watering and are much much less likely to go all limp from lack of water) and they recovered well & I began harvesting nice red rot free ones on 31st July. 6 plants have provided loads ever since and still going strong.

They were Tamina too Kathy. Was it blossom end rot yours got too? I think the solution is to move them from the growbags as its a mineral deficency thing exacerbated by watering issues from what I've read.

Judging by pics in books I think what mine had was tomato blight rather than blossom end rot - apparently it's caused by warm wet weather, so that would figure. I think I'll plant them out next year though.

I'm getting a plastic greenhouse next year!
Outdoor toms just don't work for me

No the tiger toms have produced about a kilo of fruit between 6 plants, so I wouldn't say they were very good, DD's just wanted to try them as they were stripey!

Now if we were talking about runner beans and carrots that's a different story, we are onto our fourth flowering of beans, they seem never ending.

What variety of beans were they CurrantBM - mine have been hopeless this year.

I had none

they were all green

they are all in the compost as of yesterday tho they did smell very lovely as I put them in

My mum made green tom chutney with most of hers, but put the rest on a sunny windowsill and they have ripened beautifully.

I planted mine too late and ended up throwing them all out a few weeks ago when they were not even setting fruit. Hopeless.

oh midnight your mum is saintly

i just got sick of looking at em

Not had a single green one

Half of them are trying and failing to ripen with some bananas in the fruit bowl (ds kindly picked them for me ) A load more are still on the plants but I think I'm just going to have to pick them all and make chutney

Have just made delicious hot green tomato and ginger chutney, so all is not lost. Hurrah!

My Moneymakers have been excellent. Gardeners delight alright too for a cherry tom. St. Pierre and Red Cherry both very poor.

My cherry toms have been a triumph this year but ordinary ones (not sure what variety as got plants from a relative) were late in, outside & all bright green.

Am taking them off to try & ripen on windowsills.

Cherry toms were gartenperle and planted in pots, with a shedload of organic granule feed mixed in with the compost.

ooh tomato geeks - hello

the ones i had in the greenhouse in one of those big-tub-with-drip-watering-line-to several-pots setups did amazingly for most of the summer. they were like day of the triffids, bloody enormous things.
the small yellow cherries were the most delicious... dont think a single one made it to the kitchen i just ate them all right off the plants.
ones out in the veg patch were awful. what fruits there were didnt ripen and eventually, like just about everything else in the patch, it all succumbed to blight with the constant rain and sogginess.

mmmmm, i am loving tomatoes atm [oddball]

Hey, I'll join your grumble, I had 6 tomato plants given to me - so not sure of the variety - after a summer of careful nurturing I last week had three red tomoates ...I managed to eat one and my three year old went to eat the others but found a little spider sitting on them so she threw them both into our compost bin...gutted!

sungold - lovely.
but last years all got blight - so depressing, we picked them but they still all went horrid off the plant.