Green Tomatoes

[Millymollymandy]

You can buy green tomato jam here in France and it's very nice! Tastes a little bit like grapefruit marmelade. There are recipes on the web.

It's just a thought. I might give it a go if I have lots of green tomatoes left.

[wulf]

Look at that gorgeous redness! Things are definitely moving forward on the tomato front and, although I've been impatiently waiting for weeks, on reflection I don't think it's really that much later than in previous years.

BTW, if you click on the picture you can see a larger version - free photo sharing from Flickr gets a thumbs up from me as a very neat way of sharing images (I've got a whole set of garden pictures on there).

Wulf

[Chickenlady]

Lovely pictures, Wulf - your Morning Glory looks fab!

Our tomatoes are only just on the turn now, and they are in a greenhouse, although they went in a bit late.

[Sarah C]

Wulf - now you are making me go green - with envy - lovely red toms indeed you little show off!
As we are finally having some lovely days my two orangy red fellows are slowly becoming redder - yippee. And mine are in a greenhouse too so heres hoping they will encourage their buddies to also go red.
However, one problem I do think I have is I am becoming very sad - I am now talking about tomato's as tho they are people - do you think I will be able to eat them or will I have become just a little to attached to the guy's????

[diver]

I don't change the banana skins...I hang them on the wire that is stretched across the greenhouse and leave them to go black ..if necessary I add more. And it has worked for me ....I have had 3 large boxes ...like the sort you used to get in the greengrocers....full of toms.....and large quantities in the freezer already...persevere with the banana skins..although you may just have late varieties

[Millymollymandy]

I think the banana skins will work better in a greenhouse than outdoors. Someone somewhere said it had to be in an enclosed space because of the gas given off by the bananas.

I picked 4 more yellow cherry toms yesterday. With the rate the cucumbers and the courgettes are growing, I'm happy to wait for the toms!!

[ina]

Sarah, maybe you should change our signature from Green is good to Red is good - just to encourage the tomatoes???

Ina

[diver]

I'm very interested in he recipe for green tomatp jam if anyone has it....I'll go to the preserving section ,sorry

[Millymollymandy]

I was going to do a Google search for green tomato jam but when I opened a pack of jam jars that I'd bought there's a recipe book inside with tomato jam in it.

I'll post it later - guess I'll have to translate it too!