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I've just been down to the big greenhouse and picked about 30 tomatoes.
What a joy to be able to do this and the smell of a ripe tomato is fabulous. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:29:38 +0100, sacha wrote:
I've just been down to the big greenhouse and picked about 30 tomatoes. What a joy to be able to do this and the smell of a ripe tomato is fabulous. I've eaten the first two of my Sunrises growing outdoors in a grobag(tm). |
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On 2013-08-08 20:45:35 +0100, Derek Turner said:
On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:29:38 +0100, sacha wrote: I've just been down to the big greenhouse and picked about 30 tomatoes. What a joy to be able to do this and the smell of a ripe tomato is fabulous. I've eaten the first two of my Sunrises growing outdoors in a grobag(tm). Ours are Jersey Sunrise, too but grown indoors, so we're cheating! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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"sacha" wrote
I've just been down to the big greenhouse and picked about 30 tomatoes. What a joy to be able to do this and the smell of a ripe tomato is fabulous. We picked the first from our hanging basket "Tumblers" over a week ago, and now, quite quickly, have built up a worrying stock of them in the fridge. I now understand why they are called tumblers because one nearly did onto the ground when it broke it's stem. Luckily I saw it whilst it still had a small bit of bark/skin attached and staked it so it couldn't fall and break completely. Having cut off all the large leaves to reduce transpiration it's now ripening it's little tomatoes quickly. The ones out on the allotment are also beginning to produce ripe toms. Lesotto, a blight resistant bush tomato which produces small fruit, has also started to produce ripe fruit in the last week but they have soft skins and split very easily. The larger fruited ones, Ferline, Fantasio and Black Russian have fruit that is certainly beginning to change colour but will take probably another week to start yielding ripe fruit. I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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On 08/08/2013 22:58, Bob Hobden wrote:
"sacha" wrote I've just been down to the big greenhouse and picked about 30 tomatoes. What a joy to be able to do this and the smell of a ripe tomato is fabulous. We picked the first from our hanging basket "Tumblers" over a week ago, and now, quite quickly, have built up a worrying stock of them in the fridge. I now understand why they are called tumblers because one nearly did onto the ground when it broke it's stem. Luckily I saw it whilst it still had a small bit of bark/skin attached and staked it so it couldn't fall and break completely. Having cut off all the large leaves to reduce transpiration it's now ripening it's little tomatoes quickly. The ones out on the allotment are also beginning to produce ripe toms. Lesotto, a blight resistant bush tomato which produces small fruit, has also started to produce ripe fruit in the last week but they have soft skins and split very easily. The larger fruited ones, Ferline, Fantasio and Black Russian have fruit that is certainly beginning to change colour but will take probably another week to start yielding ripe fruit. I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) Have you ever frozen them? I used to just drop them into a chest freezer, then use them later instead of tinned tomatoes. |
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"David Hill" wrote in message ... Have you ever frozen them? I used to just drop them into a chest freezer, then use them later instead of tinned tomatoes. I cut them in half - then initially freeze individually in egg boxes. Then bag and sore in the chest freezer until there are enough for a souping session- which also ends up in the freezer in flora tubs. Pete |
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"David Hill" wrote
Bob Hobden wrote: ((SNIP)) I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) Have you ever frozen them? I used to just drop them into a chest freezer, then use them later instead of tinned tomatoes. Not whole no. We usually make them into Pasatta and freeze in bags that can then be used to make soup or in various, mainly pasta, dishes. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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On 09/08/2013 07:51, Bob Hobden wrote:
Not whole no. We usually make them into Pasatta and freeze in bags that can then be used to make soup or in various, mainly pasta, dishes. I freeze them whole in bags. Then when I want to make some sauce, get them out, drop them into hot water for a minute - then the skins peel off so easily. (Essential for a good tomato sauce, if you ask me). -- regards andy |
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David Hill wrote in news:b6iit9Fbg5oU2
@mid.individual.net: On 08/08/2013 22:58, Bob Hobden wrote: "sacha" wrote I've just been down to the big greenhouse and picked about 30 tomatoes. What a joy to be able to do this and the smell of a ripe tomato is fabulous. We picked the first from our hanging basket "Tumblers" over a week ago, and now, quite quickly, have built up a worrying stock of them in the fridge. I now understand why they are called tumblers because one nearly did onto the ground when it broke it's stem. Luckily I saw it whilst it still had a small bit of bark/skin attached and staked it so it couldn't fall and break completely. Having cut off all the large leaves to reduce transpiration it's now ripening it's little tomatoes quickly. The ones out on the allotment are also beginning to produce ripe toms. Lesotto, a blight resistant bush tomato which produces small fruit, has also started to produce ripe fruit in the last week but they have soft skins and split very easily. The larger fruited ones, Ferline, Fantasio and Black Russian have fruit that is certainly beginning to change colour but will take probably another week to start yielding ripe fruit. I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) Have you ever frozen them? I used to just drop them into a chest freezer, then use them later instead of tinned tomatoes. Do you skin them afterwards, David? We put our frozen ones in the juicer without skinning and always get annoying bits of skin. I find skinning them very tedious. Is there an easy way? Baz |
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On 09/08/2013 16:19, Baz wrote:
David Hill wrote in news:b6iit9Fbg5oU2 @mid.individual.net: On 08/08/2013 22:58, Bob Hobden wrote: "sacha" wrote I've just been down to the big greenhouse and picked about 30 tomatoes. What a joy to be able to do this and the smell of a ripe tomato is fabulous. We picked the first from our hanging basket "Tumblers" over a week ago, and now, quite quickly, have built up a worrying stock of them in the fridge. I now understand why they are called tumblers because one nearly did onto the ground when it broke it's stem. Luckily I saw it whilst it still had a small bit of bark/skin attached and staked it so it couldn't fall and break completely. Having cut off all the large leaves to reduce transpiration it's now ripening it's little tomatoes quickly. The ones out on the allotment are also beginning to produce ripe toms. Lesotto, a blight resistant bush tomato which produces small fruit, has also started to produce ripe fruit in the last week but they have soft skins and split very easily. The larger fruited ones, Ferline, Fantasio and Black Russian have fruit that is certainly beginning to change colour but will take probably another week to start yielding ripe fruit. I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) Have you ever frozen them? I used to just drop them into a chest freezer, then use them later instead of tinned tomatoes. Do you skin them afterwards, David? We put our frozen ones in the juicer without skinning and always get annoying bits of skin. I find skinning them very tedious. Is there an easy way? Baz Just dip them in boiling water form a min and the skin peals off easily whilst the inside stays frozen. |
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David Hill wrote in
: I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) Have you ever frozen them? I used to just drop them into a chest freezer, then use them later instead of tinned tomatoes. Do you skin them afterwards, David? We put our frozen ones in the juicer without skinning and always get annoying bits of skin. I find skinning them very tedious. Is there an easy way? Baz Just dip them in boiling water form a min and the skin peals off easily whilst the inside stays frozen. That is genious! Thankyou. Tried it and had to break some of their skins with my nail, but a squeeze worked. The skin ended up between my finger and thumb. Then back to the freezer for the skinless tomato. One of the best tips I have ever had. Baz |
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"Baz" wrote in message ... That is genious! Thankyou. Tried it and had to break some of their skins with my nail, but a squeeze worked. The skin ended up between my finger and thumb. Then back to the freezer for the skinless tomato. One of the best tips I have ever had. Well - I have never had any problem with tom skins in soup making. I just bung the whole lot in a food processor - skins and all. Faffing about removing skins for this end product seems unnecessary. Pete |
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"Peter & Jeanne" wrote in
: Well - I have never had any problem with tom skins in soup making. I just bung the whole lot in a food processor - skins and all. Faffing about removing skins for this end product seems unnecessary. Pete I know what you mean. But when the skins are tough, faffing around is the only option apart from binning them. Some of my tomatoes in the past have had skin like leather. Baz |
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"kay" wrote in message ... The Portuguese make them into jam. Not green tomato jam, like we do with late ones that won't ripen, but a sweet red jam made with ripe tomatoes. I like it as long as I don't know what it is, but as soon as I realise it's tomato something in my brain says "this is a vegetable. You don't make jams from vegetables". Hence, we lead nicely in to the fruit/veg difference topic - lol. Think of them as the fruit of the tomato plant - then jamming may be looked on favourably in your brain (:-) Pete |
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On 09/08/2013 23:45, kay wrote:
Bob Hobden;989422 Wrote: I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) The Portuguese make them into jam. Not green tomato jam, like we do with late ones that won't ripen, but a sweet red jam made with ripe tomatoes. I like it as long as I don't know what it is, but as soon as I realise it's tomato something in my brain says "this is a vegetable. You don't make jams from vegetables". Actually Tomatoes are Fruit |
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On 2013-08-10 08:52:37 +0100, David Hill said:
On 09/08/2013 23:45, kay wrote: Bob Hobden;989422 Wrote: I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) The Portuguese make them into jam. Not green tomato jam, like we do with late ones that won't ripen, but a sweet red jam made with ripe tomatoes. I like it as long as I don't know what it is, but as soon as I realise it's tomato something in my brain says "this is a vegetable. You don't make jams from vegetables". Actually Tomatoes are Fruit I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? I prefer the fruit idea - who can resist a Love Apple?! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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kay wrote:
The Portuguese make them into jam. Not green tomato jam, like we do with late ones that won't ripen, but a sweet red jam made with ripe tomatoes. I like it as long as I don't know what it is, but as soon as I realise it's tomato something in my brain says "this is a vegetable. You don't make jams from vegetables". Nick's mum makes jars and jars of green tomato jam. And I was going to make this courgette marmalade, but didn't get time: http://www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes...ette-marmalade |
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Peter & Jeanne wrote:
Hence, we lead nicely in to the fruit/veg difference topic - lol. Our annual show led to a few discussions about definitions. I was concerned about the 'tray of vegetables', whether I could put things like tomato, courgette, cucumber, etc in, which are technically fruit. (I was going to put a cucamelon in, and in hindsight I think I should have) And a lady questioned the 'geranium' category when all the entries are actually pelagoniums. Which I had wondered about previously And one of the floral arrangments said "with 3 to 5 flowers". I had either 3 or 25. I had a stem of crocosmia ... :-/ |
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Sacha wrote:
Actually Tomatoes are Fruit I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? How can you reclassify it as a veg? Surely the definition comes from the fact that the seeds grow inside it, so unless they have changed the physical form of a tomato ... |
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On 2013-08-10 22:14:52 +0100, Victoria Conlan said:
Sacha wrote: Actually Tomatoes are Fruit I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? How can you reclassify it as a veg? Surely the definition comes from the fact that the seeds grow inside it, so unless they have changed the physical form of a tomato ... No idea. But I do know I've read that - whether ir's right or wrong or was just an idea that hasn't been adopted, I don't know. -- Sacha South Devon |
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Martin wrote:
I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? How can you reclassify it as a veg? Surely the definition comes from the fact that the seeds grow inside it, so unless they have changed the physical form of a tomato ... strawberries are veg? Ah, now they did this on QI, and I can't remember what the answer was. Each individual blob of a raspberry is a fruit (or berry). Damn. Nope, can't quite remember, sorry. But no, they're not a fruit or a veg. They're something like a composite berrylette (ok, it wasn't this. But something kind of along those lines) |
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On 10/08/2013 23:17, Victoria Conlan wrote:
Martin wrote: I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? How can you reclassify it as a veg? Surely the definition comes from the fact that the seeds grow inside it, so unless they have changed the physical form of a tomato ... strawberries are veg? Ah, now they did this on QI, and I can't remember what the answer was. Each individual blob of a raspberry is a fruit (or berry). Damn. Nope, can't quite remember, sorry. But no, they're not a fruit or a veg. They're something like a composite berrylette (ok, it wasn't this. But something kind of along those lines) Strawberries are aggregate accessory fruit according to wonkypedia. Roughly meaning that the seeds are borne on the fleshy receptacle. Rasps and blackberries are multiple drupelets; drupes are fleshy fruit with an internal seed. -- Phil Cook |
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Phil Cook wrote:
Ah, now they did this on QI, and I can't remember what the answer was. Each individual blob of a raspberry is a fruit (or berry). Damn. Nope, can't quite remember, sorry. But no, they're not a fruit or a veg. They're something like a composite berrylette (ok, it wasn't this. But something kind of along those lines) Strawberries are aggregate accessory fruit according to wonkypedia. That'll be the one. :-) (there was a word-space in my head, and that was the nearest I could get. I think it wasn't a bad attempt, imho!) |
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