[TheSpartacat]

*Sigh*
Just off the phone to my Mum in Ireland and she's still harvesting tomatoes from the heritage seeds I sent her.
She brought her plants into the conservatory before it got cold and still has 10 plants going strong and even still have flowers forming!!

I wouldn't mind but her conservatory is not the warmest- no heating in it. (Its usually freezing when i visit her)
 

I feel properly jealous! Is that normal to be able to still get tomato crops this late in an unheated greenhouse??

[RichardA]

I am still taking about 8 toms a week from last 4 plants in a cold polytunnel in North Lincolnshire
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[cjskts]

I've only just taken mine down today and they still had flowers. I only took them down because i wanted to start work preparing the greenhouse for next year, early i know, but they hard started to die off.

[arugula]

We haven't taken the hanging ones down yet, they still have lovely sweet fruits on them. The Roma in the polytunnel came out yesterday leaving a large bowlful of green fruits for me to deal with.

[shokkyy]

I've still got a couple of chilli plants thriving in my cold greenhouse. And when I say cold i mean really cold, there's panes of glass missing.

[savbo]

I pulled up ours yesterday, still plenty of fruits on but many are blemished and the ones that are ok aren't keeping at all well...

[Salmo]

As I sit here I see a truss of semi=ripe fruits on my Gardeners Delight outside. Picked the rest of then 3 weks ago to ripen inside and left these as too green to bother with.

[Babstreefern]

I took my plants down last week.  I still had some green ones on, and one or two flowers .

I've also got one very large, and now very red pepper, (the other peppers had been taken down a couple of weeks ago).  So this week, that one will be plucked and used in my Spag bol for this week's tea

[arugula]

Our dwarf peppers are still in the cold frame with loads of ripening fruits, however they do need to come in soon before they get frosted.

[viettaclark]

Are peppers self-pollinating? I brought mine in and they're growing strong with loads of flowers......

[dumpling]

I seem to remember growing different varities of chilli peppers, and pollinating them with a brush so they didn't cross-pollinate, so they must be self pollinating?

[mumofstig]

I think you have to tap them the same as you do for tomatoes 

[Marston]

What do you mean "tap" them

[mumofstig]

giving the stems a little tap/shake  makes the flowers release their pollen, so they should self pollinate

[Bizzi Lizzi]

We haven't taken the hanging ones down yet, they still have lovely sweet fruits on them. The Roma in the polytunnel came out yesterday leaving a large bowlful of green fruits for me to deal with.

I had a fantastic crop from just one Roma plant I was trying for the first time and I'm still eating them as they rippen. 

Do you think they are a good plum variety for me to grow again next year or is their better?