Tomatoes harvesting & dying 2018

I only grew 2 varieties this year. a salad one called Harbinger and a full sized plum tomato whose name I cant recall and I cant find its label. but both have cropped well and they still have plenty on but I doubt they will ripen on the vine now.

Our only really salad tomato was 'Alicante' which has given a good crop as well & there is still one plant with 3 trusses of unripe fruit.

Good to hear you got a god cop as well! It seems to have been a very good year for them!

No they will find it difficult to ripen now & I, myself, have removed some of the tomatoes that were showing any signs of starting to ripen. I pulled up several plants on Saturday that I had removed the last tomatoes from but I still have over half the plants with a few tomatoes on each. As we are forecast a "warmish" week I thought I would leave them a few more days.

hubby made a green tomato pie last year and it was almost as sweet as an apple pie. we had it with cheese. made the same way as an apple pie if you are interested.

Sounds interesting! Balcony how do you manage to eat all those tomatoes Guess you give lots away?

It's great that you could grow all those different types on the balcony, and it seems you've had good crops from them all.

Thanks for your comments! 😀

Thank you for that, SB!

Stera, I do eat most of them myself! 😀

I can't complain about the crops I've had from the tomato plants I've grown this year on the balcony, Hywel! I've never grown so many plants of tomato before nor have I ever grown such a variety of different tomatoes! Nor would I have done if my daughter hadn't given me those 5 packets of seeds either! There won't be a repeat next year.

I can't fault 'Ukrainian Purple' for the number of fruits or their size but I found them to have little taste! It was one of the earliest to produce fruit as well. I won't be growing this one again.

'Black Cherry' had a huge number of fruits & is a very vigorous plant! The taste of them wasn't too bad but I didn't find they were particularly "tomatery". I may grow a few plants of this one again next year.

'Alicante' as always performed really well & the plants look exactly like you think a tomato plant should look like! They also tasted quite nice! I'm probably going to grow some more next year. These are the favorite tomatoes of my wife's.

But I was very disappointed with 'Speckled Roma' it has only produced a few tomatoes & very late. I have a couple of plants with green fruit still which I will have to take off in the coming week once the weather once again turns cooler.They will never ripen on the plants. I still haven't got around to tasting the 2 fruits that ripened on the plant. So I can't comment on taste. Nevertheless I don't think I will be growing it again in the future.

Perhaps the best of the bunch was 'Red Robin"! This is a very tiny plant that produces no end of tiny tomatoes! I planted 4 plants in each of 3 hanging baskets & they are still producing fruits! The taste is quite "tomatery" & I scoff them by the handful!!! This is one I shall definitely grow again next year! I recommend it to anyone who would like to grow this tomato on a sunny windowsill for example. I think one plant should grow happily in a 6" pot. I may try a few plants this way myself next year!

Great crops you have there well done I bet your grand children enjoyed picking the crops.

Good crops! We didn't grow tomatoes or any veg this year. "Red Robin" sounds a possibility for next year. I like small tomatoes. When my father grew them commercially I used to be allowed to pick the very tiny ones that hadn't developed. Some were no bigger than my thumbnail but were absolutely delicious.

Wow you did well Balcony, I have removed all my plants now and the remaining fruit is in a tray ripening off in the greenhouse, I agree its been a brilliant year for tomatoes, I did very well with cucumbers also, some of your varieties look very interesting, will you save some seed from them....Nothing better than tomato's straight from the plant, I always eat them by the handful also...

Our best varieties were Super Sweet Cherry Tomato and Shirley. I will make a note of Red Robin........done. It is in my gardening book.