1st cherry tomato

[hawthorns]

today ive harvested my first home grown tom. it was lovely and i had been waiting for ages to pick it. roll on the rest of the toms to ripen.

[Alice]

Congratulations Hawthorns. My first cherry toms are still the size of fleas. So treat still to come.

[welshgirl78]

Wow lucky you - I just have a few flowers

[Flummery]

Heck, well done that lad! I console myself that you are down in Wiltshire but I'll catch up eventually! I think my first to ripen will be Golden Sunrise - they are swelling up a treat and begining to look light in colour. Can't wait - it's a sort of ceremony here - half each of the first tomato.

[Cutecumber]

Well done Hawthorn!

I've had my first Bloody Butcher tomato this week, which is particularly pleasing as they have been outside since late April. The plants themsleves look terrible, unfortunately - they've obviously given their all!!

This isn't the norm - there are only a very few early fruits ripening on these and the Golden Sunrise - but it's interesting that you can get some early ones if you put in the effort early on in the year.

[gemlady]

Well done! Here's to many more

[Garden_girlie21]

I can see them ripening in my GH!!!! So excited, I was beginning to think they were going to stay permenantly green!!!

Jennifer

[squashysu]

great going and well done, mine are growing lovely, just cant wait to eat them now !!

SS

[gojiberry]

Have plenty of green ones but none near ripening. Just have to be patient.

Ian

[Demeter]

Yay!
I've a fair few green ones an dlots more coming, but only one that looks as though it's starting to think about ripening. It'll be a little while yet I think for me

[kittykat8]

I pick 2 red onws last night and give them to my husband to take to work and eat, So I have yet to taste any tomatoes, also pick cucumber and pepper my cucumbers are going mad.

Marion

[pjh75]

My first one (urbikany) fell off the plant a couple of days ago and was still slightly green... luckily it has ripened up anyway so I'm going to eat it later in a salad with a mini-white cucumber. I hope it still tastes okay.

[lynda66]

i think it's about time they invented green tomatoes that are ripe

[lzyjo]

Congratulations, hawthorns!
Here comes the tomato flood.

[Claire72]

Mine are still small and green, still a while away yet.
Aren't you supposed to leave the first red one on to help ripen the rest???