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Bursting Tomatoes
This has been my first proper year of growing tomatoes, and all things
considered, I'm very pleased with the results, given too much rain, and not enough sunshine. All my plants seem to be producing fair quantities without me doing much apart from supporting and trimming them. Though I have noticed that if you leave the fruit on the plant too long, the skins seem to split, which doesn't seem a good thing. On the other hand, the longer you leave the fruit, the riper and sweeter and tomatoier (if there such a word) they get. There must be some recognised way of dealing with this dilemma. Ken Cohen |
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there must be some recognised way of dealing with this dilemma. Roast them overnight in a really low oven (100C) on a bed of coarse salt, garlic, rosemary, thyme and a little sprinkle of olive oil and a drop of balsamic. Maybe throw in a shallot or two. Works best with very ripe tomatoes that are possibly about to spoil. The recipe suggests to skin them after overnight roasting, but the skins are fine by me. I serve them as a starter with some crusty bread. Delicious. -- http://www.intercuts.com/blog/ |
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Hugh Chaloner wrote:
wrote: there must be some recognised way of dealing with this dilemma. Roast them overnight Oops! Forgot to say to halve them initially, and put 'em in the baking tray skin side down. -- http://www.intercuts.com/blog/ |
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Hugh Chaloner wrote:
Roast them overnight sorry, forgot to tell you to halve them first and put them cut side down in the roasting tray. -- http://www.intercuts.com/blog/ |
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On the other hand, the longer you leave the fruit, the riper and sweeter and tomatoier (if there such a word) they get. There must be some recognised way of dealing with this dilemma. Ken Cohen Pick them on the turn and let them ripen off the vine. |
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Our patio pot tomatoes have done very well, both cherry & medium sized.
They've both exhibited the "splitting" you talk about, but only when they're ripe. So we take this as signifying they're ready to remove. Taste is good. As for water, we've been doing it daily, sometimes twice, throughout the summer drought here on the South Coast. No lack of water, or irregular watering. Given them regular "Tomorite" feed - say once a week. ( And of course, it depends what you mean by "splitting" too - what we're talking about is more like a "smile" across the tomato surface, not a chasm ) |
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Our patio pot tomatoes have done very well, both cherry & medium sized.
They've both exhibited the "splitting" you talk about, but only when they're ripe. So we take this as signifying they're ready to remove. Taste is good. As for water, we've been doing it daily, sometimes twice, throughout the summer drought here on the South Coast. No lack of water, or irregular watering. Given them regular "Tomorite" feed - say once a week. ( And of course, it depends what you mean by "splitting" too - what we're talking about is more like a "smile" across the tomato surface, not a chasm ) |
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"Blossom" wrote in message ... BUDDY Wrote: i found this information about splitting is this what you mean http://fortyeight.net/lh.php?lXc=4338 No mate. This is some kind of wind-up! I'm afraid it's an attempt to make your PC a zombie - if you went there, I strongly recommend a full virus scan and spyware scan. Block this individual NOW. Regards, -- -- Jason Teagle |
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In article , Mark
writes On 16 Sep 2005 12:19:40 -0700, wrote: This has been my first proper year of growing tomatoes, and all things considered, I'm very pleased with the results, given too much rain, and not enough sunshine. All my plants seem to be producing fair quantities without me doing much apart from supporting and trimming them. Though I have noticed that if you leave the fruit on the plant too long, the skins seem to split, which doesn't seem a good thing. On the other hand, the longer you leave the fruit, the riper and sweeter and tomatoier (if there such a word) they get. There must be some recognised way of dealing with this dilemma. Ken Cohen Generally, splitting is caused by irregular water supply, so if you grow in growbags and water evenly, you *should* get away with it. But in the soil, in recent weather hot/flood/hot/flood etc it always seems to be a problem. Depends on variety too - I gave up trying to grow cherry tomatos like 'Gardeners Delight' in the soil for this reason, but they (and their successor varieties) are fine in growbags. (BTW - question for anyone- can you still get Gardener's Delight, or are they totally withdrawn now?) Regards, Mark Hi I bought 3 Gardener's Delight plants from my local garden centre earlier this spring, so you can still get them - they also did really well and I ended up with very many tomatoes! Lynda |
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