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  • #1

    Will the ripen?

    OK, out of my remaining tomato plants, suddenly, they've all sprung to life and have loads of green tomatoes on them...

    Will these ripen, or am I making chutney again this year?

    Last year my Gardeners Delight lasted until the end of October, when I pulled them up because I was sick of cherry tomatoes...

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    Beef toms probably won't get to ripen now if they're only just forming but smaller varieties should be OK, especially if we get this Indian summer we keep being promised (fingers crossed!). I think I was picking for well over a month from now last year. Even if they don't as you say, you can make green tomato chutney.

    Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

    Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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    • #3
      I'm hoping the remaining few I've got will ripen. I was reading somewhere about lifting the plants & laying them down on straw & covering with a cloche to ripen toms at the end of the season, don't know how effective it is though.
      Into every life a little rain must fall.

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      • #4
        With a bit of luck OWG we could get a couple of weeks decent weather and your tomatoes will ripen. Good luck. I'm counting on it.

        From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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        • #5
          OWG
          you can use cherry tomatoes to make tomato sauce to save throwing them away, roasting in the oven with herbs, onions, garlic, peppers and a stick of celery and then put it through a sieve and you get a gorgeous gloopy sauce.
          best wishes
          Sue

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          • #6
            Leave them on the plants as long as you feasibly can - this gives them a better chance. At some stage you will have to decide whether to leave them or crop them. My decision point came when I realised they had botrytis so I ended up with lots of pots of green tomato chutney. Good luck!!

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