[the Kergan]

My tommy plants are doing very well at the moment and have some nice large tomatoes on them and plenty of them as well. They are still very green at the moment and this is my first year with a greenhouse so not sure what to expect what with the rubbish weather this year that has slowed things down.

Has anyone got any ripe tomatoes yet?

I hear that hanging banana skins on the trusses can help set things off, I know how that works due to the gasses the skins give off but has anyone tried it and with what results.

Thanks.

[Lardman]

I picked 1 sungold today, It's been on the plant so long the skin was very thick.   

[shokkyy]

I've had a single ripe Gartenperle, but like yours it had been on the plant too long so it was yucky. Now the sun has started shining, and after a BFB feed for all the yellowing leaves, the plants have suddenly perked up and put off gazillions of flowers so hopefully they'll be burying me in tomatoes soon.

[Ian_A]

picked just over 1kg of ferline and have skinned and frozen 8 marmandes. Others coming along - blight-willing!! And will freeze about half to use in soups, stews and the like later in the year and early next year

[spuriousmonkey]

my cherry tomatoes just started to ripen. (sweet 100). I ate 2 and around 8 more of them are now turning colour.

They are in a semi protected environment and in pots (most in too small pots even). They vary in height from 1.5m to 2m.

Of the other varieties only stupice is showing one tomato turning colour, and ironically it is the one outside exposed to the elements on my allotment.

These weeks are supposed to be the hottest in Finland, but instead the sun has abandoned us and temperatures don't go above 20C. Not really ideal weather for a final growh/ripening spurt for most of my plants.

Still I can't complain, growing tomatoes without a greenhouse was an experiment here. I have seen so many people fail here (short summers, no possibility for a warm autumn) and I already got to eat some tomatoes.

I have 12 tomato plants in a semi-protected environment in my garden (on my terras, under a transparent roof). And over 20 on my allotment. I'm sure I am going to get something decent out of it.

[AnneB]

No.  Out of 15 plants I have 1 unripe tomato on my Golden Sunrise plant, but it has been there forever.  Now flowers on 12 of the remaining 14. 

[Flump]

I have lots o flowers but not one tomato forming!

[Plottered]

Lots of flowers and quite a few are fruiting but nothing rip yet...cant wait to pick a few for nibbling as we work

[JayG]

No ripe ones although yet again the Red Alert bushes are way in front of the cordon varieties in the greenhouse both in number and development of fruits.

Trouble is, the RA are in an open cold frame which doesn't provide much protection from the "B" word, and it's extremely hot and humid today..................

[mumofstig]

I've eaten quite a lot of the Gartenperle, sowed in the Early Tomato Expriment thread, so will be dong that again next year  

From the normal time sown varieties, I've had a couple of Black Cherry toms and that's it  
The plants are setting well, just not ripening yet...........................

Every year we moan about them not ripening quickly enough You'd think we'd be used to our summers by know Patience is a virtue n all that!

[Willow_Warren]

I've had a few sungold!  Considering I've got 8 plants which are quite mature I'd have expected more, but wasn't picking till nearly the end of August last year so it's an improvement on that

What's more they are yummy!

Hannah

[mickbrov]

as you know by now that i am a noob at growing things ,i will be glad to tell you.that i have 2 gardners delight ,plants with a few toms on about the size of maltesers, and my tigger melon plants are looking strong . but maybe too late for them.

[Growster...]

Nope!

[viettaclark]

No...and I won't get any. Binned 70 flowering plants today after a haircut didn't stop the blight spreading.

[sunshineband]

Sungold and Golden Sunrise, including one Sungold outside 


Fingers crossed against blight attack as I type