"Spooooool" wrote in message
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How have other folks' tomatoes been doing? I have yellow cherry type
ones in the conservatory which have done very well. But in the Greenhouse
are big red beefsteak ones which have grown big but none yet red. Am I
being impatient or should they have gone red by now?

cheers

Jon


I was going to post a message to ask if anyone had any suggestions as to how
I could get my outdoor tomatoes to ripen faster, but it seems from your post
and the replies, that mine are doing as well as can be expected. In
particular: I planted four different plants (four different varieties) all
bought from the garden centre as seedlings. The Beefsteak variety is
cropping well and has produced five or six ripe tomatoes so far. Pixie F1 is
working overtime, and has produced about 15 excellent small tomatoes, with
several orange ones to ripen in the next few days. Shirley is loaded down
with green tomatoes, but none have ripened so far (apart from one truss
which I broke off by accident three weeks ago, and is now ripening indoors).
Similarly with F1 Golden Sweet which is loaded down with large green
tomatoes.

The Pixie and Beefsteak plants are at the south end of my garden, with the
others shaded by them (although pixie is too small to do much shading).

I am optimistic that some of the fruit will ripen before the end of
September, or at worst indoors later (based on the earlier experience).

John