I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Wally

"Sacha" wrote in message
...
On 2009-08-10 18:35:47 +0100, "Wally" said:

I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Wally

Watch the film! Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café. ;-) The
more sensible answer is 'chutney'.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

Thanks Sacha, off to Google chutney.
Is there no chance of ripening some of them ??

Wally

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:35:47 +0100, Wally wrote:

I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Green Tomato Wine !!

We made some once - *very* strong :-)
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

On 10 Aug, 18:45, "Wally" wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message

...

On 2009-08-10 18:35:47 +0100, "Wally" said:

I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Wally

Watch the film! *Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café. *;-) * The
more sensible answer is 'chutney'.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

Thanks Sacha, off to Google chutney.
Is there no chance of ripening some of them ??

Wally

Mmmmm, green tomato chutney is a wonderful addition to curry -
together with blitzed up courgettes, mushrooms etc - or was that
another forum?

"Wally" wrote in message
...
I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Wally


Chutney!!

"sutartsorric" wrote in message
...

Mmmmm, green tomato chutney is a wonderful addition to curry -
together with blitzed up courgettes, mushrooms etc - or was that
another forum?

Here's the recipe I use. It's a Huge Fiercely-Eatsitall one.

Glutney
(Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipe)

This is a 'multiple choice' recipe for chutney, designed to help you use
whatever seasonal fruit and vegetables are in full glut at the time. For me,
the courgettes/overgrown marrows are pretty much a staple in August and
September, and they may give way to pumpkins and squashes in October and
November. Tomatoes and plums are around at roughly the same time, though the
tomatoes will start early - particularly if you use green ones.

Of course, no two batches of glutney will ever be quite the same - but that
hardly matters. You should also feel free to play fast and loose with the
spice bag. And if you like a really hot chutney, add as much dried chilli as
you dare.

Serve with cheese, cold meats, terrines, pork pies etc. But also remember
what a useful ingredient chutney is, with a ready-mixed blend of sweet, sour
and spice. I frequently add it to curries, soups and stews.

To make about 10 jam jars' worth:
1kg marrows/overgrown courgettes, unpeeled but cut into dice no bigger than
1cm (discard seeds from really large marrows) OR 1kg pumpkin, peeled, seeds
and soft fibres discarded, and diced no bigger than 1cm
1kg red or green tomatoes, scalded, skinned and roughly chopped OR 1kg
plums, stoned and chopped
1kg cooking or eating apples, peeled and diced
500g onions, peeled and diced
500g sultanas or raisins
500g light brown sugar
750ml white wine or cider vinegar, made up to 1 litre with water
1-3 tsp dried chilli flakes
1 tsp salt
for the spice bag
1 thumb-sized nugget of fresh or dried ginger, roughly chopped
12 cloves
12 black peppercorns
1 generous tsp coriander seeds
a few blades of mace

Put the vegetables and fruit in a large, heavy-based pan with the sultanas
or raisins, sugar, vinegar and water, chilli flakes and salt.

Make up the spice bag by tying all the spices in a square of muslin or
cotton. Add the spice bag to the pan, pushing it into the middle.

Heat the mixture gently, stirring occasionally to dissolve the sugar, and
bring slowly to the boil. Simmer for 2-3 hours, uncovered, stirring
regularly to ensure it does not burn on the bottom of the pan. The chutney
is ready when it is rich, thick and reduced, and parts to reveal the base of
the pan when a wooden spoon is dragged through it. If it starts to dry out
before this stage is reached, add a little boiling water.

Pot up the chutney while still warm (but not boiling hot) in sterilised jars
with plastic-coated screw-top lids (essential to stop the vinegar
interacting with the metal). Leave to mature for at least 2 weeks - ideally
2 months - before serving.

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:35:47 +0100, "Wally"
wrote:

I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Wally

In my experience, most of the tomatoes picked green when the leaves
and stems have blight will develop it if kept indoors to ripen. I
suppose cooking them now is OK?


Pam in Bristol

"Wally" wrote...
I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

From our experience a lot of those fruit will develop blight as they ripen,
and rot.
An old trick was to place them in a drawer with a very ripe banana which
gives of a gas which ripens other fruit. It's why you shouldn't keep bananas
in dish with other fruit.

Spray the plants with Bordeaux Mixture next year towards the end of July and
keep them sprayed as the rain washes it off, needs doing about every two or
three weeks IME.
There are also some blight resistant varieties available and they are
resistant (Fantasio, Ferline, Legend). We have proved it with Ferline when a
few years ago they didn't get develop blight when everything around them
did. These may not be the varieties you want to grow but better some
home-grown tomatoes than none.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London

wafflycat wrote:
"Wally" wrote in message
...
I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Wally


Chutney!!

Green tomato chutney is lovely

There is a thread in another group about frying green tomatoes. I intend to
try that with mine. It is a US group and they dip the slices in egg and
then cornmeal. I don't have that so I shall dip in egg, coat with
breadcrumbs and fry in bacon fat.

wafflycat wrote:
"sutartsorric" wrote in message
news:dea75850-6029-4331-8b0e-
...
Mmmmm, green tomato chutney is a wonderful addition to curry -
together with blitzed up courgettes, mushrooms etc - or was that
another forum?

Here's the recipe I use. It's a Huge Fiercely-Eatsitall one.

Glutney
(Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipe)

This is a 'multiple choice' recipe for chutney, designed to help you
use whatever seasonal fruit and vegetables are in full glut at the
time. For me, the courgettes/overgrown marrows are pretty much a
staple in August and September, and they may give way to pumpkins and
squashes in October and November. Tomatoes and plums are around at
roughly the same time, though the tomatoes will start early -
particularly if you use green ones.
Of course, no two batches of glutney will ever be quite the same -
but that hardly matters. You should also feel free to play fast and
loose with the spice bag. And if you like a really hot chutney, add
as much dried chilli as you dare.

Serve with cheese, cold meats, terrines, pork pies etc. But also
remember what a useful ingredient chutney is, with a ready-mixed
blend of sweet, sour and spice. I frequently add it to curries, soups
and stews.
To make about 10 jam jars' worth:
1kg marrows/overgrown courgettes, unpeeled but cut into dice no
bigger than 1cm (discard seeds from really large marrows) OR 1kg
pumpkin, peeled, seeds and soft fibres discarded, and diced no bigger
than 1cm 1kg red or green tomatoes, scalded, skinned and roughly
chopped OR 1kg plums, stoned and chopped
1kg cooking or eating apples, peeled and diced
500g onions, peeled and diced
500g sultanas or raisins
500g light brown sugar
750ml white wine or cider vinegar, made up to 1 litre with water
1-3 tsp dried chilli flakes
1 tsp salt
for the spice bag
1 thumb-sized nugget of fresh or dried ginger, roughly chopped
12 cloves
12 black peppercorns
1 generous tsp coriander seeds
a few blades of mace

Put the vegetables and fruit in a large, heavy-based pan with the
sultanas or raisins, sugar, vinegar and water, chilli flakes and salt.

Make up the spice bag by tying all the spices in a square of muslin or
cotton. Add the spice bag to the pan, pushing it into the middle.

Heat the mixture gently, stirring occasionally to dissolve the sugar,
and bring slowly to the boil. Simmer for 2-3 hours, uncovered,
stirring regularly to ensure it does not burn on the bottom of the
pan. The chutney is ready when it is rich, thick and reduced, and
parts to reveal the base of the pan when a wooden spoon is dragged
through it. If it starts to dry out before this stage is reached, add
a little boiling water.
Pot up the chutney while still warm (but not boiling hot) in
sterilised jars with plastic-coated screw-top lids (essential to stop
the vinegar interacting with the metal). Leave to mature for at least
2 weeks - ideally 2 months - before serving.

Oooh thanks for sharing that! It has been saved

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:53:01 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:


"Wally" wrote...
I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

From our experience a lot of those fruit will develop blight as they ripen,
and rot.
An old trick was to place them in a drawer with a very ripe banana which
gives of a gas which ripens other fruit. It's why you shouldn't keep bananas
in dish with other fruit.

Spray the plants with Bordeaux Mixture next year towards the end of July and
keep them sprayed as the rain washes it off, needs doing about every two or
three weeks IME.
There are also some blight resistant varieties available and they are
resistant (Fantasio, Ferline, Legend). We have proved it with Ferline when a
few years ago they didn't get develop blight when everything around them
did. These may not be the varieties you want to grow but better some
home-grown tomatoes than none.


Bob, what are the Ferline fruit like? Worth growing?
I tried Bordeaux mixture one year and it only delayed the blight, left
the plants and fruit with a powdery blue sheen, and the fruit had to
be carefully washed, no quick tqasters while picking.
What do commercial growers use?

Pam in Bristol

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:35:47 +0100, Wally wrote:


My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green tomatoes and haven't a
clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.


Try putting some in a drawer with a banana: might well ripen. It's the
ethene (ethylene) gas given off by the ripening banana that does it.

On Aug 10, 6:37*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-08-10 18:35:47 +0100, "Wally" said:

I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Wally

Watch the film! *Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café. *;-) *
The more sensible answer is 'chutney'.
--
Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

I have huge green ones not yet ripe, but fortunately no blight. Green
chutney or pickle is very good and I have recipe if Wally needs it.

Judith

On Aug 11, 8:53*am, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"Wally" *wrote...
I've got problems with tomatoes, Blight.
I had rescued all the fruit that looks to be ok
and put everything else in a heap to dry out ready
for burning (plants + infected fruit)

My problem now is, I have rather a lot of green
tomatoes and haven't a clue what to do with them.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

From our experience a lot of those fruit will develop blight as they ripen,
and rot.
An old trick was to place them in a drawer with a very ripe banana which
gives of a gas which ripens other fruit. It's why you shouldn't keep bananas
in dish with other fruit.

Spray the plants with Bordeaux Mixture next year towards the end of July and
keep them sprayed as the rain washes it off, needs doing about every two or
three weeks IME.
There are also some blight resistant varieties available and they are
resistant (Fantasio, Ferline, Legend). We have proved it with Ferline when a
few years ago they didn't get develop blight when everything around them
did. These may not be the varieties you want to grow but better some
home-grown tomatoes than none.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London

Interesting Bob, Edward is reading this over my shoulder, I guess next
year he will be growing Feline.

Judith

"Judith in France" wrote
On Aug 11, 8:53 am, "Bob Hobden" wrote:

From our experience a lot of those fruit will develop blight as they
ripen,
and rot.
An old trick was to place them in a drawer with a very ripe banana which
gives of a gas which ripens other fruit. It's why you shouldn't keep
bananas
in dish with other fruit.

Spray the plants with Bordeaux Mixture next year towards the end of July
and
keep them sprayed as the rain washes it off, needs doing about every two
or
three weeks IME.
There are also some blight resistant varieties available and they are
resistant (Fantasio, Ferline, Legend). We have proved it with Ferline when
a
few years ago they didn't get develop blight when everything around them
did. These may not be the varieties you want to grow but better some
home-grown tomatoes than none.


Interesting Bob, Edward is reading this over my shoulder, I guess next
year he will be growing Feline.

I seem to remember reading a few years ago that there are other resistant
varieties available in France.
Ferline (T & M), normal sized round tomato, looks just like the ones one
buys.
Fantasio is a little bigger.
Legend is a beefsteak variety, but strangely, on much smaller plants.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London