It's a bit early to give up on ripening tomatoes, but these ones grown in a growbag with a flimsy plastic canopy got the chop.
Not from me but from the weight of fruit and the blustery wind. The stalk just snapped.
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To make the best of it I made up some of our favourite Green Tomato Chutney.
So not a complete disaster after all. I should add that these were Gardeners Delight but we also have 5 Sungold plants, grown from seed, already producing a steady supply of ripe red (actually orange) cherry tomatoes.
I've had some problems of a similar nature with my bigger varieties of tomato - the crop is too heavy for the plants to support! This is one reason why I often pick the big toms as soon as they show some colour, and ripen them indoors. I don't think they are any less good than ones 100% ripened on the vine.
ReplyDeleteSungold must be one of the most popular tomatoes and rightly so.
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