Disappointing tomatoes

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Kkkaty, Aug 21, 2020.

  1. I see you’re cursed with crazy paving as well as us. Out with the pickaxe!
     
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  2. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    It’s on my list Snots :D
     
  3. Mine’s been on the list for 20 years. Hate it!
     
  4. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    must be time for 'decking meets crazy' by collyp :)
    haven't posted in a while

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  5. How long did that take you :eek:?
     
  6. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    Couple a days. Full width of the house / garden :)
     
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  7. Doesn’t look too bad. Quite apeeling.
     
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  8. STILL
    NOT
    RIPE

    rubbish they get till Tues then I want the space in the green house
     
  9. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    That is actually so much better than just slicing it straight with a Stihl saw.
     
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  10. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    You were lucky to get any tomatoes at all. Mine have succumbed to late blight and the whole lot are going rotten on the vine. They'll have to be burned. Apparently it's caused by one or two warm humid nights.

    Strangely enough, the potatoes had a good crop with no blight even though it's the same fungus which causes it.
     
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  11. Mine are in the bin..
    Not even the compost one either I don't want them seeding utter bobbins
     
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  12. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    Take them off the plant. Place in an egg box by the windowsill next to some ripe ones. Or bananas which release ethene gas more than ripe tomatoes do, making the green ones ripen, picking them off the bush makes the plant produce more fruit.

    Then make chutney out of the green ones.

    We use a tumbler variety called "Tumbler" ..

    Commercial tomatoes are grown over several years as semi-perennials if you can afford the greenhouse heating. After getting to the top of the string, they are lead across, down the next string and so on.
    Its how they grow in the swamps of America. When the locals arent shooting at them in a drug crazed haze or whatever .

    Blight relies on neighbours making sure you get it too. Our allotment suffers from people who grow loads of potatoes then leave them all blighted spreading fungus.
     
    Last edited: Sep 16, 2020
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  13. I did try to ripen a couple but no luck. Back to my normal toms next year
     
  14. Little Nellie

    Little Nellie Supporter

    Followed advice to remove leaves that are shading the fruits and stop watering. Result is a sick looking plant but by 7th October tomatos are actually very nice.

    If I can avoid frost I think they’ll all be edible soon

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  15. Put the green ones in a brown paper bag with an apple, two weeks , hey presto, green toms and a rotten apple. No really it does work.
     
  16. nell#2

    nell#2 Supporter

    Even Monty dons failed I feel better for that lol
     
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  17. Little Nellie

    Little Nellie Supporter

    Sounds like a Tommy Cooper trick - I’ll try it with some of them!
     
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  18. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    About forty years ago I had some green tomatoes. I put them in a kitchen drawer and a few weeks later they turned red. Result!
     
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  19. Soggz

    Soggz Supporter

    B7BB1363-38DF-4A09-8312-BC4319C7D46E.jpeg Not many this year.
     

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