Still harvesting tomatoes

 Not only am I still harvesting, but some of the plants have just sprouted
new growth, and one has new flowers!  And one of the greenhouses has an
infestation of fat hairy black caterpillars.

Dug out a few of the name labels.  The ones still going well right now are:
shirley  - lovely spherical, red, very regular, would have been great for
showing if only they'd been ready earlier!
rosada - my new favourite straight-to-mouth tomato, still growing
'red pear' - no actual name, it seems, but they're very pretty and tasty
Un-named yellow, medium-large, spherical - tastier than the Golden Sunrise
that I grew last year, which went mushy, but still not wonderful.  I would
stop growing yellows, but Daniel loves yellow things!
Some GD are still growing well, but still very odd range of sizes!

Plants that are dead but still ripening fruit:
pineapple - lovely orange ribbed things
roma - plant mostly cut back, but they're still ripening, lots of lovely
waisted fruits!
Super marmande - nice shape, but not all that tasty.
creamy sausage - nice shape, taste ok, but were early blighted.  But oddly,
still growing!  (Cut all the blight off, the lower part is still there, and
still has fruit)

Some very disappointing ones this year:
* mortgage lifter
* hundredweight
* erm, another big one with a foreign name ...
- all huge, pinky-red or red with light shoulders, can't remember which is
which.  Very poor taste and texture.  All heritage varieties.  Unforunately
can see why they faded out.  :-(
* ildi - grow them every year for Daniel, and they're always terrible.
  Loads and loads of flowers, only a handful or two of tomatoes!  I guess I
  need to start hand-polinating them a bit at the right time.
* 'sripey peach', which look like tigerella should but never do for me,
  these had really squishy texture.  Plant is still growing

 

Great list, but what would you recommend if you could only grow say
three types, not all of us have so much space.

Are you a 2012 Gamemaker too?
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Judging by this year's successes, I'd suggest Rosada for small pick and eat,
Shirley or Pineapple for sandwiches, and Roma for cooking.

 

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Outdoor tomatoes still ripening well.
I nearly brought them in green the other day but the frost missed us and the
weather is warming up again.
Can't remember the varieties but the cherry ones are holding up well, as is
one of the yellow Jamie Oliver ones from HomeBase.

Some have been blighted, but with almost all the leaves gone the blight
isn't really taking hold.

Still some flowers out, but I don't think any new fruits will get very far.

I have had outdoor tomatoes going almost till Christmas some years, but I
suspect this year may be too cold before then.

Cheers

Dave R
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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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I'm impressed the frost missed you!  Where are you based?
It's been frosty overnight here all week, then warm again in the day.
Courgettes are totally gone now.


Absolutely everyone on our allotments had blight, except one bloke, who has
a whole row of tomatoes which he can't remember hte name of.  They're quite
short plants, medium sized fruit, and orangey red.  He gave mea tomato which
I've taken the seeds out of, but I am not holding my breath for them to come
out the same variety.  But I'll give them a go.

All mine on the allotment were doing ok, but gave in to blight before they
cropped.  (Which is better than most others, who didn't even get that far!)


I've never even managed to keep indoors that late!

I am debating what to do.  I need to move the potato plants inside before
they get too frosted, but I don't want to bring them into the greenhouse
whilst there is still a lingering blight-covered tomato crop in there!