Growing Tomatoes 2011. Week 34.

by Sally on November 21, 2011

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Who would have thought it? But here’s the evidence. Taken yesterday afternoon before the mist/fog really descended and made everything look very other worldly.

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kevs November 21, 2011 at 8:20 pm

that’s fantastic; perhaps you could over-winter them indoors, or clone them, for an early start next year. I still have some raspberries on the canes, and I’ve brought my not-so-chilli chilli plants inside, and lo and behold they’ve turned red! (the chilies, not the plants!).

Meanwhile, last night I converted 1 1/2 lbs of green toms and more free Bramleys into chutney. That’s the third batch I’ve made this year – the W.I. would be inpressed! :-)

Scyrene November 22, 2011 at 1:01 am

One of my ‘Summer Cider’ plants has grown to about 8 feet and is still flowering away… Not sure it’s worth trying to keep it going next year though. I’d worry it might pass over pests and diseases from this year’s plants to next year’s seedlings.

On another note, have any of you tried keeping harvested tomatoes for any length of time? I’ve had loads lying round in an admittedly cool and humid kitchen, but some have survived weeks intact. Anything that extends the season is a good thing! :)

Sally November 28, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Funnily enough I bought some Green Tomato Chutney from the WI the other day – it looks very good – and I can’t wait to crack open the jar – but I think it came with the strict instruction not to open till xmas – so in the mean time I am enjoying some very good Rhubarb and Ginger jam from the same source and then on to Fig and Ginger – very good with icecream apparently – that’s all the prompting I needed! I’m taking the easy route to having a Glut Cupboard!

Sally November 28, 2011 at 10:10 pm

I do love that name “Summer Cider” – I think it must be to with tinges of “Cider with Rosie”.

There are always those stories of home growers who have their last tomato of the year in a drawer and bring it out with a flourish – for a burnish – and then a bite on Christmas Day – so just as the plants seem destined to be with us for much longer than usual this year – maybe the fruit will be as well!

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