The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: pgkevet on November 10, 2019, 10:17:04 pm
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I've not had them last this late into the season without blight before (better ventilation this year?). Inerestingly with mild frosts it's the one's turning just yellow that split.. there's still a few green one's I'm picking to ripen indoors but the leaves have shrivelled from frost and I'm slowly ripping everything out.
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I picked all mine before the first minus 5 frost here about 10 days ago. They are ripening indoors. Some are fine to eat fresh and I have made red tomato and apple chutney. Now I will make green tomato and apple chutney with some of the rest. At the same time I clear picked the chillis and as well as using them in the other chutneys I shall make some very hot chilli, apple and date chutney, using a pound of chillis :chili: :chili: :chili: :chili: :chili: :chili: :chili: :chili: - I didn't grow the dates!
There are still several more trays of ripening fruit to work through after all that. Instead of my usual blight tolerant Sakura, I grew Pomona toms from Italy - they have taken so long to grow and ripen they had barely started being pickable before the frost came, so although they are really tasty and showed no blight, I shall not grow them again. I also grew Mountain Magic which is blight resistant and they were late to ripen too. Back to Sakura next year :tomato: :tomato: :tomato:
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I only grow yellow toms now..seem to be sweeter and always get attention from visitors and very popular when i give surplus away. Can't remember the current variety 'golden something'
Chillis also picked but V and I keep eating them halved and batter-fried. I grow jalopenos for that. I did plant some scotch bonnet but very slow to fruit in comparison. Also lots of bell peppers and suprised myself by finding a few i hadn't noticed when i stripped out the plants....
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I've been chopping chillis for chilli chutney this morning. Just over 1 lb of them - 100 chillis! They are Basket of Fire which are 80,000 CHU so hot but not daftly so. I wonder how many jars I will get? I'm making up the recipe as I go along!
I don't find yellow tomatoes grown here are all that sweet - not enough sun. You must have much better growing conditions.
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I still have some ripening in the greenhouse which I will pick in the next few days. We had our first frost Sunday night but it wasn't very cold so they survived it.
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All toms finished , glasshouse emptied , soapy water cleaned & the slabbed floor bleach sterilized . It's now holding 36 plus overwintering geraniums & four tubs of strawberries which are still giving fruit due to using a home made 28 hr candle as a heater in the glasshouse . The geraniums are in good bloom too .
All spent tomato compost on the veg beds with the stems & roots being chopped up for the compost bin.