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Post by Moose on Oct 8, 2015 22:34:10 GMT
I've got at least two dozen tomatoes and several that are still green. The thing is that they are all still very small ... most are not even cherry tom size. Should I harvest them? I assume that, at this time of year, they're really not likely to get any bigger and I don't want them to just die (what does happen to unharvested tomatoes once the frost sets in?). I am pleased that at least I have some but I must admit that I was hoping for something a bit more .. spectacular.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 9, 2015 11:01:40 GMT
You mustn't eat them. Since this is the gardening board not the food board.
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Post by Moose on Oct 9, 2015 17:40:48 GMT
I doubt I can eat all of them but I will take some to my mum's
I dreamed last night that I was on a bus tour of the South East and in every window I passed people had bigger and bigger tomato plants and mine felt inferior.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 10, 2015 11:48:52 GMT
The tomato plants obviously symbolise something, but what?
Possibly your feelings about your ability to grow tomatoes.
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Post by Moose on Oct 16, 2015 20:49:00 GMT
i might have inadvertently picked a small type
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 19, 2015 3:23:33 GMT
I've got at least two dozen tomatoes and several that are still green. The thing is that they are all still very small ... most are not even cherry tom size. Should I harvest them? I assume that, at this time of year, they're really not likely to get any bigger and I don't want them to just die (what does happen to unharvested tomatoes once the frost sets in?). I am pleased that at least I have some but I must admit that I was hoping for something a bit more .. spectacular. I wouldn't feel bad. You are pretty far north for tomato production. Ideally, you should wait until the tomato changes color and easily separates from the stem attaching it to the plant. However, as the apparant position of the sun dips low to the south and daylight hours shrink appreciably, they don't tend to ripen as well. Then it becomes a question of whether one intends to deal with green fruit. You can pick them and then place them in a sunny spot on your kitchen counter and hope they ripen up. I have a friend, who, when frost threatens, uproots her plants and hangs the plants, fruit and all, upside down in her cellar. The fruit ripen, she claims. Or, search out some green tomato recipes (which are out there). What happens to fruit which are left on after the frost? They usually rot, drop to the ground, and position a fair number of seeds to volunteer next spring. Tomatoes are very good at volunteering, if the conditions (soil, sun, and water) are right.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 19, 2015 8:58:35 GMT
However, as the apparant position of the sun dips low to the south and daylight hours shrink appreciably, they don't tend to ripen as well. Most of the time, for the next several months, the apparent position of the sun in Cumbria will be "What sun?"
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 19, 2015 15:41:17 GMT
A look at Googlemaps shows Whitehaven to be at the same latitude as Prince Rupert, British Columbia, which is not far from Ketchikan, Alaska.
Given that, I'd say that if you intend to grow tomatoes, you might want to look in to putting together a coldframe/greenhouse.
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Post by Moose on Oct 25, 2015 21:22:10 GMT
well I got a fair few this year though they were not particularly big. I am not sure if they were meant to be big or not or if I just accidentally picked a cherry version.
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 26, 2015 15:26:54 GMT
well I got a fair few this year though they were not particularly big. I am not sure if they were meant to be big or not or if I just accidentally picked a cherry version. Yeah, I saw your pix on FB. I think you got a cherry version. They looked to all be reasonably uniform in size.
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