Toms results from this year

That's heartbreaking Balcony, what a shame. There's a limit to how much green chutney you can eat! You can ripen some off in the house but ripening all those would be something of a challenge! My Gardeners Delight have been good too - not as big as yours but keeping us going all summer. I bought a grafted plant of Indigo Rose to try - a very strange variety that turns almost black on top and a sort of pale orange underneath - but it doesn't seem to want to ripen. Made a very robust plant but only had one tomato ready so far! Lots of trusses but the fruit is small - it could be my fault for poor watering and feeding but I hope not - did my best. I have had more off the two Gardeners Delights.

Since the weather, especially the nights cooled during august my toms slowed up considerably in the gh, only 7c here this morning and clear skies, looks like a lovely day

Sorry you have so msny green ones, in the gh I just leave them and hope for the best.
its wrong isn't it about allowing the blight to just sit there in a heap.

It makes very interesting reading although growing tomatoes is not my thing, thanks for posting

Thanks for your comments everyone! :)

I had to pull up the plants on Monday & consign them to the rubbish tip at the top of the allotments field, beside the entrance gates.

There were many more plants there from other people's allotments as well. Some had enormous tomatoes but riddled with blight! ;-(( Just this evening I pulled up all the tomato plants on Gerry's 2 plots! :'(( We didn't get a single tomato that could have been eaten from any of the plants.

I think it was the cold, wet couple of weeks we had in August that produced such a devastating outbreak of blight so early in the season.

We don't make chutney as my wife (as well as her sister) has never been able to put up with the smell of vinegar. No vinegar has entered in our house in the 40 years of our marriage! She has only partially relented when our granddaughter asked for tomato ketchup! Even so I have to put it on her plate & my wife stays well away! I like vinegar by-the-way.

Does anybody know of a recipe for green tomatoes that doesn't include vinegar? We'd appreciate it if you could tell us.

Whe I worked in a schol library there waws a French cookery book that had a recipe for green tomato jam. Jus thad a quick look on he net and there are heaps of recipes for it! I'm with your wife on the vinegar.

Thanks for that, Stera, I'll have a look online to see what I can find.

Sorry to hear the tom woes . I had the same thing with the rain in August so feel for your loss there
As well as all the toms in my polytunnel I grew a few plants outside in my new raised beds so i could see the difference in growth. we had a good steady long hot spell and they did well but them they took ages to ripen and then we had the rains. Just as some were looking ready I noticed some blight and had to pull the lot.
I did try before outside for a couple of years a few years ago and got blight then so I know its about here on the patch.
In the poly I can keep the plants really dry so no probs.
I wont be bothering with outside toms again, funnily enough though my potatoes were not affected

Thanks, Stevie, it was a shame the cold wet weather we had in August - ruined many a good crop! I removed leaves at first at the first sign of infection but it was a losing battle from the outset!

Strange but I don't remember seeing many potatoes growing on the allotments this year. I, myself, didn't bother to plant main crop potatoes this year & our earlies finished just today - the first day of autumn! We had to BUY potatoes for the first time today in more than 3 months!

We have so many onions I think we may be self-sufficient till next summer - if I can keep them from rotting off over winter!

The tomato plants on my balcony have escaped blight - like they do most years - & I've been able to harvest quite a few small 'Gardener's Delight', a tomato I like very much! I have just one plant of 'Marmande', a seed that somehow got into my other tomatoes as I didn't sow any this year! Until it flowered I had no idea it wasn't one of the others! It also has escaped blight.

I certainly agree there on growing 'Gardener's Delight', they do very well in the poly and give loads of lovely small very sweet tasting toms, certainly my main choice for now.
Also good this year were the one or two cherry toms I grew, just very handy to pick at : )

They are handy to pick - & pop straight into your mouth! I eat them like sweets! I can never eat enough! The ones on my balcony are not nearly as big as those on the allotment but I still have enough to keep on harvesting till the first frost kills them perhaps in 3 or 4 weeks time!