You know you planted too many tomato plants when.....

**Tazmanfishing** · 15-09-2008, 10:53 AM

Nice Crop,

I had the same problem, The Missus made a superd Tom and Basil soup.

Enjoy your chutney.

Brian.

**Duronal** · 15-09-2008, 10:58 AM

The crazy thing is that these were grown from 1 or 2 supermarket 'baby plum' tomatoes. This was a really a furthering of last years experiment, I'm so pleased to have managed to grow such a great variety of taste, shapes and sizes from two shop bought toms.

i will restrict myself next year to the 7 packet varieties i think, if not i'll be swimming in them

**Alison** · 15-09-2008, 11:02 AM

Am still letting mine ripen on the plants for another couple of weeks as I've still got green chutney left from last year!

**Duronal** · 15-09-2008, 11:06 AM

i wanted to alison but unfortunately some of the fruits had started to brown with blight. This was half cull and half harvest

**Alison** · 15-09-2008, 11:56 AM

Bad luck with the blight - have managed to avoid so far (quickly grabs a large piece of wood!) but live in fear of it attacking!

**HayleyB** · 15-09-2008, 03:15 PM

Don't talk to me about blight - aaaaaaggggggghhhhhh

**number 1 suspect** · 15-09-2008, 05:56 PM

about 25 litres of pasata so far. another batch to do tonight and still buckets of toms to go......... AAAaaarrrrhgghh!!!!!!! Stil, I had planned to make them alst till next year and we do aet a lot of pasta (home made of course) :-)

**Mrs Dobby** · 15-09-2008, 07:32 PM

We've 45 x 1 1/2lb bags of frozen passatta / pasta sauce in one of the freezers, 8 1lb jars of tomato puree, 5 bottles (750ml) of tomato sauce already stored, and another 8lb of toms ready to be processed this week, plus of course what ripens this week, with I guess another 40 or 50lb of toms still ripening / growing at present! Guess we may have enough to see us thru the winter, perhaps, maybe! lol!

Maybe 62 tomato plants was a little bt overkill, but after last years dismal harvest I really wanted to make sure we had enough to see us thru the winter! lol!

**squashysu** · 15-09-2008, 07:37 PM

wow and well done to you, can i have some please, as my toms are all finished and the last being ripened before eating! i was never the greatest tom lover before, but now i am, i have made roasted tom relish and it looks simply devine, i cant wait to eat it!!!

**lynda66** · 15-09-2008, 08:04 PM

i've just got flowers on mine ...... I'm jealous

**Duronal** · 15-09-2008, 11:07 PM

ahh sorry guys, it would appear i was lucky. I planted in april/march from a scooped out tom into a pot and then pricked out the seedlings......for weeks!

long live crazy experiments. Next up the TPS challange in march,

**jackie j** · 16-09-2008, 07:46 AM

Not one tomato for me 16 plants out of over 60 seeds sown got blight so well done you.

**kwa50** · 16-09-2008, 04:58 PM

How do you make pasta sauce, just tomatoes, garlic.... any recipes greatly appreciated. Is there anything else that can be made using tomatoes - I too have been inundated.....

kwa50
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**Mrs Dobby** · 16-09-2008, 07:12 PM

Hi kwa50! For the pasta sauces that I've frozen, I've basically made a sauce as I would to eat immediately, but not added any meat, then just bagged and frozen it, for the ketchup and puree, then I've used a combination of the info from below! Hope these are of some help!

Canning / Bottling / Preserving info
Article: Food Preserving - Reviving a Tradition
Message in a bottle — The taste of summer, preserved in glass :: by Jennifer Savage :: Culinate
How to can tomatoes at home, from fresh tomatoes - easy and illustrated!

Ketchup recipes
BBC - Food - Recipes - Tomato ketchup
Recipe - Fresh Tomato Ketchup
Tomato Ketchup - Cornucopia Forum - GardenWeb
Recipes : Famous Tomato Ketchup : Food Network
Jamie Oliver - Forums / tomato ketchup recipe this week on tv...
Planet Ketchup Recipes
UKTV Food: Recipes: Tomato ketchup

Puree Recipes
Recipe-Tomato Puree

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