[hubballi]

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  

[pdblake]

I didn't even get that many when I was supposed to

[DD.]

Well done in the tomatoes.

Sorry to say that the rooting of side shoots is a well known technique.

[mumofstig]

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 

[GrannieAnnie]

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?   

[Spana]

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:

[shoozie]

Well done with your tomatoes Hubballi 

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

[shokkyy]

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?

[mumofstig]

Some of mine always do the same, I think it's the ones that were not mature enough when picked.

[GrannieAnnie]

I've had a few wrinkled ones, but not many considering how many tomatoes I've had again this year!

[allotmenteer]

still got toms in the poly tunnel cherry plum and beef.

[snowdrops]

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.

[hubballi]

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.

[sarajane]

Well Done Hubballi.  How positive for you 

[Spana]

No need to make green Tom chutney

Well, i have a confession 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: