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After all these months of stress with rubbish weather and my tomato plants growing so slowly and seeming to be way beind everyone else's, I almost have a ripe tomato! 
That might not seem like much, but this is the first year I've grown anything at all and I don't have ideal conditions for growing anything (no garden of my own and a huge horse chestnut tree outside my flat that blocks out a lot of sunlight). I've been watching them daily (and have discovered that a watched tomato never ripens) and a couple of days ago I felt this particular tomato was a yellowish green rather than totally green, but that could have just been the way the light was catching it. Well today there is no mistaking it - the top third of the tomato is orange After all these months, a poor choice of variety (I didn't really make a conscious choice - just picked up a tomato growing kit in B&Q) and crap weather I almost have my first ever tomato ready for picking. I have had some tomatoes from the plants I bought at the garden centre, but this will be the first from a plant I've grown from seed. I am so ridiculously excited!! Is it normal to be this excited about your first tomato? I can't believe I've grown tomatoes - I've not even succumbed to blight (yet). I also have loads of alicante that look ready to ripen. If only the promised forecast for this next week is true, I just might get some tomatoes! There have been so many occasions when I really thought these plants were dead but they have come good in the end.
Far from being discouraged by the weather this summer, I'm actually encouraged. Heck, if I can grow anything at all this year there'll be no stopping me in a good year
Apologies if anyone thought this thread was going to be about something really exciting! This is exciting to me.
That might not seem like much, but this is the first year I've grown anything at all and I don't have ideal conditions for growing anything (no garden of my own and a huge horse chestnut tree outside my flat that blocks out a lot of sunlight). I've been watching them daily (and have discovered that a watched tomato never ripens) and a couple of days ago I felt this particular tomato was a yellowish green rather than totally green, but that could have just been the way the light was catching it. Well today there is no mistaking it - the top third of the tomato is orange After all these months, a poor choice of variety (I didn't really make a conscious choice - just picked up a tomato growing kit in B&Q) and crap weather I almost have my first ever tomato ready for picking. I have had some tomatoes from the plants I bought at the garden centre, but this will be the first from a plant I've grown from seed. I am so ridiculously excited!! Is it normal to be this excited about your first tomato? I can't believe I've grown tomatoes - I've not even succumbed to blight (yet). I also have loads of alicante that look ready to ripen. If only the promised forecast for this next week is true, I just might get some tomatoes! There have been so many occasions when I really thought these plants were dead but they have come good in the end.Far from being discouraged by the weather this summer, I'm actually encouraged. Heck, if I can grow anything at all this year there'll be no stopping me in a good year
Apologies if anyone thought this thread was going to be about something really exciting! This is exciting to me.
I felt like a kid opening pressies yesterday was I was prepping the corn I grew for the freezer!
Its one of the bought plants - the golden peardrop. patches on the stem but the fruit is fine. I'm not taking any chances so I've removed the green tomatoes that are full size and the rest has gone. The other plants are showing no sign of it so fingers crossed they either won't get it or I will get some ripe tomatoes before they show signs of it.
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