Tomatoes turning

[Maximillian]

Have my first three ripe toms! Maybe a little less green chutney this after all.

[hsthst]

Why am I still buying supermarket tomatoes?

Tis with gritted teeth I buy yet another box of supermarket value bullets commonly marketed as tomotoes. My own outdoor varieties add microns to their size each day...........what are they doing with all that water and regular feed? They are green, as green as my untended lawn after the monsoon summer we have had here. If and when they turn ( wishful ) I'm not going to feel summery anymore.....the kids will have gone back to school and it'll be dark at 8pm........the evenings will have a chill in the air, leaves will have started to fall, there'll be konkers on the trees!! . Thats not how or when I envisaged gorging on fresh bright, juice dripping fruits ( ala jamie Oliver paradise bubble world)..............my salads were to glisten red,yellow,purple in the deep summer sun.........instead we'll probably end up making batches of chutney........chutney!

I gotta get a greenhouse and start sowing straight after Christmas Dinner this year!

[BumbleB]

Just noticed amongst the tangle of toms in my greenhouse that the Aldi mini plum toms have all formed mini trusses and are beginning to turn. Can't wait to taste these from a saved tomatoe seed.

[salilah]

How do I know when a Black Russian is ready??? First time growing them!!
thanks
S

[RobintheBobin]

How do I know when a Black Russian is ready??? First time growing them!!
thanks
S

If it's anything like my Cherokee Purple it goes the colour of a bad bruise and the only way to tell if it is ready is to squeeze it...I was waiting for the damn things to go purple but it seems they should really be called Cherokee Muddy Red, Purple and Browny Tomatoes

Maybe yours are Muddy Red, Purple and Browny Russian Tomatoes?

[RobintheBobin]

How do I know when a Black Russian is ready??? First time growing them!!
thanks
S

If it's anything like my Cherokee Purple it goes the colour of a bad bruise and the only way to tell if it is ready is to squeeze it...I was waiting for the damn things to go purple but it seems they should really be called Cherokee Muddy Red, Purple and Browny Tomatoes

Maybe yours are Muddy Red, Purple and Browny Russian Tomatoes?

[nelliegemini]

Tis with gritted teeth I buy yet another box of supermarket value bullets commonly marketed as tomotoes. My own outdoor varieties add microns to their size each day...........what are they doing with all that water and regular feed? They are green, as green as my untended lawn after the monsoon summer we have had here. If and when they turn ( wishful ) I'm not going to feel summery anymore.....the kids will have gone back to school and it'll be dark at 8pm........the evenings will have a chill in the air, leaves will have started to fall, there'll be konkers on the trees!! . Thats not how or when I envisaged gorging on fresh bright, juice dripping fruits ( ala jamie Oliver paradise bubble world)..............my salads were to glisten red,yellow,purple in the deep summer sun.........instead we'll probably end up making batches of chutney........chutney!

I gotta get a greenhouse and start sowing straight after Christmas Dinner this year!

Is this a Wirral thing then?

[Herbie]

Really chuffed this year with tomatoes. We have been eating them for weeks. We have had sungold (yum, have trouble getting these from greenhouse to the kitchen!), balconi red, tigerella, stupice, cherry, morgage lifter and today picked about six snow white.

Lots more to come but will definately participate in the early growing experiment again next year its worked great for me this year.

[Magiccat1978]

Some of my gardeners delight in the greenhouse are starting to go red at last

[Lavenderblue]

At last! i have a small weird tomatos ripe - no idea what sort they are but errm...they are male! and lots of Galina yellow ones. these taste really lovely, I am going to seedsave these and grow them again.

[johnnyt93]

In the last week my toms have gone mad producing quite a glut but I love them so its great

Heres some of them

[RickinDarwen]

Out of approx 100 toms in my tunnel, many of which are full size I only have a couple of red ones.
Is there a danger of them not ripening? Or do they generally get there in the end?

I have been looking at the recipes for chutney!

[BumbleB]

I found that once the first ones started the rest seemed to get going a week later. You have lots of time still left. I would think that the end of September would be the time to think about picking off excess green ones for chutney. But if you like green chutney a batch now would not hurt - also keep an eye that the green ones remain healthy and no signs of rot on them.

[reetnproper]

I'm beginning to think someone mixed the Tomato seeds up at Suttons as my Ailsa Craigs are still very, very green BUT are the size of Beefsteak tomatoes!!!!

My poor hubby is desperate for them to ripen so he can have them grilled with his fry-up or the T-Bone steak he seems to think we're going to be getting, to do them justice

The Gardeners Delight are abundant, red and delightful - at least that's what my 2 little girls think. I wouldn't know, as they rarely make it as far as the house .

Regards
Reet
xx

[tiachica]

My tomatoes keep growing and growing, but it's only now the first one is turning.
It's supposed to be a green tomatoe to be picked when the outside turns yellow-green, but I have seen somebody kept them on the plant until red outside, but they'd still be green inside. So I am unsure as to when to pick it.

Any insight?