Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: hubballi on November 29, 2012, 14:32
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I am hoping that I may be the only one on this forum or even in the UK who is still getting tomatoes from a growing vine. There are some in the greenhouse still hanging on and some that were pulled up and hung upside down so the sap feeds the fruit. It's getting a bit dodgy now because the bubble wrapped greenhouse is only just above freezing so I may bring them in.
The thing is, I planted my suckers after pulling them off and they made new plants which produced fruit. In the kitchen windowsill one very sucker plant has 2 ripe red toms ready to be picked :)
I may have discovered a use for suckers nobody thought about ;)
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I didn't even get that many when I was supposed to ::)
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Well done in the tomatoes.
Sorry to say that the rooting of side shoots is a well known technique.
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Well done on getting some late tomatoes ;)
some people carry on rooting the sideshoots all the way through winter in order to get an early start for next year :D
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I pulled all my plants now, but still got about 5lb of green fruits left on kitchen windowsill which are ripening now.
Lovely to be still eating your own fresh toms at the end of November isn't it? :)
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My late rooted side shoots are still producing, but my greenhouse is very warm and i can keep them going all year if i want :happy: I have one really good plant where a branch of the summer plant came down, touched the soil and rooted. :happy:
I usually pull the whole lot out on boxing day 'cause i'm fed up with looking after them by then. I've never thought about rooting another lot of side shoots to get an early start. I'm going to try that with a few shoots off the rooted branch plant, thanks mum. :happy:
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Well done with your tomatoes Hubballi :D
I've planted up side shoots - and tops that I've accidentally beheaded. Never thought of over wintering sideshoots though.
Best of luck there Spana and look forward to hearing how that goes
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I pulled all my plants now, but still got about 5lb of green fruits left on kitchen windowsill which are ripening now.
Lovely to be still eating your own fresh toms at the end of November isn't it? :)
I had to ripen off a lot of mine on the windowsill, but I really hate doing that. Yes, they turn red, but I always get a good percentage of them that go a bit sort of wrinkled and fossilised looking. Anyone else find this or are mine getting a bit too warm/cold/whatever?
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Some of mine always do the same, I think it's the ones that were not mature enough when picked.
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I've had a few wrinkled ones, but not many considering how many tomatoes I've had again this year! :)
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still got toms in the poly tunnel cherry plum and beef.
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Well done Hubballi & everyone else,I've never expected to have them this late & like to clear the greenhouse out early,the plus is I got some green tom chutney made this year.
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No need to make green Tom chutney as they will go red in the kitchen without heat or sun. Our kitchen is freezing cold because it's got no radiator in but they still ripen if all kept together.
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Well Done Hubballi. How positive for you :)
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No need to make green Tom chutney
Well, i have a confession :blush: I could see early on that i had a really good crop this year so i picked a couple of pounds of green toms before i had any red ones.
We were running low on chutney and as i didn't have much else that was successful out in the open this year green tomato chutney was the way to go, and we like it :happy:
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I've still got a bag of frozen green tomatoes from last year! Brian doesn't like chutney, but must sort something out. Don't want to throw them away.
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make some just for you, treat yourself - don't worry about him all the time :nowink:
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I've been picking cherry-sized toms that have finally ripened this week for salads. I may have planted them too late as there are still loads of green ones on the 4 plants that are still going in the conservatory. Its getting really cold in there now so I expect I'll be trying some green chutney for the 1st time this weekend.
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... must sort something out. Don't want to throw them away.
Fried Green Tomatoes (http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/fried_green_tomatoes/). :) And the film is quite good too. :D
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No need to make green Tom chutney as they will go red in the kitchen without heat or sun. Our kitchen is freezing cold because it's got no radiator in but they still ripen if all kept together.
Ahh but I like it :D & some is for Christmas presents
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Picked some Sungold today.
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I have just peeled off 3 sideshoots from a Tigerella plant in the greenhouse and potted them in small pots in the house with cutting compost. They should grow for next year's crop ?
Another thing, it is said that toms need heat and sun to ripen. My plant in our unheated, freezing cold kitchen has just produced 2 small cherry toms that have ripened.
How did they do that with no sun or heat ?
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Compared to the great outdoors it'll be warm. It will still get some sun.
Less warmth and light doesn't mean they won't ripen, just take a lot longer.
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I hung the unripened trusses of Gardener's Delight on the lemon tree that I brought into the kitchne, on the window sill (North facing) in the third week of October.
They have looked great and are mainly ripe now. Munching on the go is the order of the day here :lol:
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I picked the last of mine today. They were not quite ripe red and were planted outdoors against a south facing wall. The vines have succumbed to the frost, however, I'm quite taken with the fact that I've got home grown tomatoes in December!
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I have bubblewrapped the greenhouse inside but the temp is still near freezing. I bought all my tender plants inside too for protection but not sure they will survive now.