[puravida]

okay - so my tomato plants were looking a bit brown and not too healthy recently but there was bundles of fruit just starting to ripen.

I gave them a decent feed and a good watering.

NOW though, the plants have completely died, dried out and withered. And all the fruit has fallen off - green and red!!

Gutted!!

Any ideas??

Can I still eat the fruit? And if so, how do I ripen the green ones??

[ytyynycefn]

Oh no!

I think the same thing is happenning to mine.  The plants are looking really rubbish, the four that had started to ripen have developed dark wrinkly patches and fell off in my hand when I went to look at them.   :?  

The green ones still look fairly OK, so I could do with some advice too!  Shall I cut my losses and start on the green tomato chutney? :mrgreen:

Mel

[puravida]

Mel - mine went in the space of a day or two.
If you think your's are heading the same direction then ABORT TOMS, ABORT TOMS!!

[ytyynycefn]

Oh dodo.  Luckily I have an awful lot of bananas, so will be making an artistic pyramid of bananas and toms in an effort to get the blooming things to ripen.  :?

My house growbag looks a bit healthier that the allotment ones, but we'll see.  Grr.

mx

[lentil987]

same happened to mine think it was blight.
Someone said it was due to the very wet weather we had in August.

[puravida]

bah! it sucks!

can I still eat the fruit??

how do I ripen the green ones?

[John]

Ripening the green ones is quite easy - put them in a sunny window with a banana - it works.

Some are too unripe though - these get turned into chutney

If you have brown patches on your toms, as we do on some - cut off the yucky bit, dip in boiling water to easily get the skin off and convert into sauce for freezing.

[puravida]

Many thanks for the advice John - I'll give it a shot!!!

[MumoftTwo]

Had blight too - Jake found a great Green Tomato Chutney recipe by Keith Floyd

Green Tom Chutney

[puravida]

oooh cool.
I'm going to have to google a few tomato chutney recipes I think.
I wonder if there is a special green cherry tomato recipe  
 

[big green bloke]

hi everyone ,
            i have been growing some old tomes from  Normanby hall in n.lincs  , the head gardener side that he lost the lable but knew that they where big ones . grown well in the poly tunnle and had a lot of 1lb or just over but they are going very soft and feel ready to eat but are still green . they do turn red but by then they are very soft some to soft to slice (turn these into sun dried toms) what have i done  wrong     or is it just the type  also how do i save the seed for next year  all i done is put the on paper to dry out will this work .  :?:  :?:  hope you can help your big green bloke