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Post by raymondo on Dec 29, 2013 20:31:17 GMT -5
Another brief visit from Jack a fortnight or so before the summer solstice wiped out more than half of my tomatoes (plus most of the chillies and a good number of beans). Everything that got singed has bounced back now and we've had temps everyday between 27C and 32C with night betweens 12C and 17C ever since so the garden looks lush. I kept some of the tomato seedlings so I have replacements for almost all. These will be planted out tomorrow.
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Post by templeton on Dec 30, 2013 14:32:42 GMT -5
Picked my first toms a day or two ago - some Little Flame (dwarf Jaune flammee project), and a Tigerella. Not disappointing, but can't wait for the real crop to start. I ate some supermarket coloured tomatoes over christmas - Costco are doing a mixed salad sized pack, with black, orange red and yellow - all relatively tasteless, with the added bonus of almost unchewable skin on the black. I bet the commercial breeder was pleased as punch to have come up with that one! T
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Post by richardw on Dec 31, 2013 0:04:46 GMT -5
Aren't supermarket tomatoes bloody awful!!the sad part is that 99% of the population think that that's what tomatoes are supposed taste like
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 31, 2013 12:27:24 GMT -5
I've been eating dried tomatoes since the season is over. I'm about to cook the last of the storage tomatoes for New Year's! I will not buy a store bought tomato. They are not tomatoes. I don't care what the label says.
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Post by raymondo on Dec 31, 2013 14:50:55 GMT -5
The only time I have store bought in the house is when my mother is visiting out of tomato season. She's a creature of habit and must have a slice of tomato on her lunchtime sandwich.
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Post by richardw on Jan 14, 2014 2:32:30 GMT -5
Just picked the first fruit of my families favourite tomato,Grubs Mystery Green
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Post by templeton on Jan 14, 2014 6:05:03 GMT -5
Nice, richard. Picked my first outside tom today, a Rainys Maltese -no pic, fermenting the seed. T
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Post by richardw on Jan 14, 2014 12:16:25 GMT -5
Ive got seed of Rainys Maltese which ive not grown before,must go the plant next summer list otherwise the seed will end up getting to old.
How's the heat effecting the garden T?
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Post by templeton on Jan 14, 2014 19:30:54 GMT -5
Crispped off the tips of some parsnips ans beans, sun scalded a to ato fruit, but not too much affected. Lots of shade cloth up, and turned up the dripper tube. T
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 26, 2014 12:10:22 GMT -5
If any of you have time today, check out "Bing" There's an Antipodean Roo, giving directions to wallopers.
Is Grubbs Green normally early?
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Post by richardw on Jan 26, 2014 12:58:50 GMT -5
Is Grubbs Green normally early? Ive never grown it outside but i wouldn't imagine it would be an early given its a mid-large tomato
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Post by blackox on Jan 26, 2014 13:49:39 GMT -5
A question from somebody who has never grown a green tomato - how do you tell when it's ripe?? Texture?
A very nice looking tomato, I do not see many homegrown tomatoes that do not have bad cracking.
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Post by richardw on Jan 26, 2014 14:39:30 GMT -5
With Grubs Mystery Green it does go slightly darker when ripe,ive found with some of the Tomatoville green dwarfs that they tend to develop a bloom end blush
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Post by templeton on Jan 26, 2014 23:40:36 GMT -5
A question from somebody who has never grown a green tomato - how do you tell when it's ripe?? Texture? A very nice looking tomato, I do not see many homegrown tomatoes that do not have bad cracking. Blackox, you've got to give them a try, if you can get over the 'tomatoes have to be red' syndrome. Ripenes can be tested by giving them a gentle squeeze. And Grubs does develop a faint yellow blush on the blossom end. I think I posted previously on this thread how I gave some to a 'grow for restaurants' farmer friend, and the chefs went mad for them.That, and japanese black trifele. I've just picked my first KBX for theseason - I remember now,THAT'S why I grow them.YUMMM! Must give him some kbx seed to try. T
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Post by steev on Jan 27, 2014 0:06:05 GMT -5
I find that most "green" tomatoes have some degree of color-change as they ripen, but my tests are: does it release from the vine easily; does it smell ripe.
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