The last tomato.

[Bren In Pots]

I'm down to my last fresh greenhouse tom and I hate the thoughts of finding nice tasting ones so maybe this winter we'll have tomato-less salads.
I was wondering what others do who have been spoilt after eating tasty toms all summer.

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Mr Frosty and I sulk all winter (sorry we just cannot eat the ball bearings that pretend to be tomatoes and as sold by every supermarket). However this year and after much mooching from fellow Grapes I have already sown tomatoes for next year on Nov 1st) Well I got itchy fingers and sowed 4 Micro Tina seeds on 26/08. The aim is start getting fresh tomatoes as soon as possible next year (tried to upload photo of one of the Micro Tina plants but laptop does not want to play)

[Alison]

I grow some long keeping ones (can't remember the name) off Real Seeds which will keep until about Christmas if you keep them right which is a good start.

[Shadylane]

Only toms we eat through the winter are tinned. We try to eat seasonally for most things. We do cheat with fruit though as Himself likes to have an apple and banana with lunch. Also buy frozen peas. I stopped buying cucumbers last year and used pickle ones and courgies instead. It makes you really appreciate them when you grow your first one of the summer.

[Bren In Pots]

I thought I'd grown a good mix of toms but Alison if you find the Real seeds variety I'll add them to next years need to grow list.

Marmande
Amish paste
Shirley
Gardeners delight
Lemon tree

[Shadylane]

It's De Colgar. Not on their site at the mo though, but according to their blogspot they're saving seeds from them, so have a lookie in a month or so maybe (?)

[binley100]

I have a freezer full of passata made from home grown to help through the winter ........not much use in a salad tho

[veggiechicken]

I have a few tomatoes left in the fridge then that's it until next year. I have lots of self sown tomato seedlings in the greenhouse bed however. Is it worth potting them up and nurturing them? I will not be heating the greenhouse just for them though! Not even sure what variety they are as I was given a dozen plants this year. Any advice?

[Aberdeenplotter]

It one of the things I genuinely experience sorrow about relating to what I grow. "Real" tomatoes are delicious and when they are finished with more than 6 months to go before the new seasons ones are ready for the table really is a depressing thought. I also have some cooked (roasted with sea salt and garlic infused oil) and frozen so i do have a few treats to look forward to and I still have a few ripening on the windowsill with some green stragglers on the plants in my greenhouse at the plot which will probably end up as green tomato chutney. Roll on next years crop though

[Bren In Pots]

I've got a fair bit of passata in the freezer, then 6 jars of HFW's gluttony so that should keep us going over winter but I will miss real toms for salad
This is the first year all my toms ripened so they've done really well for me.

Shadylane I'll look out for those De Colgar toms later on thanks.

[zazen999]

I've still got toms in the greenhouse and out the back, growing away merrily.

[dogsbody]

I have a few fresh ones left in the kitchen and about 10 bags of chopped ones in the freezer. Still got fresh cucumbers around too, I feel some of Rat's soup coming on......

[Potstubsdustbins]

As a tomato freak "I love them" I have loads in the fridge in various guises. SWMBO will get some plum ones from the market over winter for salads which are quite reasonable. Yes I know their not like the real thing but the best we can do.

As AP says role on next season

Colin

[Shadylane]

No worries Bren .
Ours at home are still alive but been crap this year for various reasons, so haven't watered them or checked on them for a bit. The ones on the plot died a couple of weeks ago when we had a frost. Bizarrely, the chillies which were unprotected survived I need to go and pick all the green/semi ripe tommies and get the poly cover packed away before the gales come and the ladybirds get too settled in the zip covers, which they obviously think are an ideal hibernation spot.

[Florence Fennel]

There doesn't seem to be a way round this does there Bren? It's tasteless tomatoes or none. I do buy some supermarket toms for my salad, but I lather them in salt, pepper, celery salt and mayo and then pretend.