I’ve never had much luck with tomatoes, I don’t have a greenhouse and the English weather seems to be terrible to them. Sometimes I get tomatoes, but then the never ripen, maybe I’ve just had the wrong variety or not cared for them enough.
It must be said, I like my plants (ornamental or edible) to not need a lot of care, I like them to get on with growing without having to be fussed over and tended to too often. That being said, this year, one of my three tomatoes plants is doing really well.
I bought a set of three Jamie Oliver tomato plants, I really liked that they all came as different varieties – I chose a set that had a red variety called Tomatoberry (this is the one that’s doing well), a green and orange striped one called Green Zebra (a few tomatoes on that, none ripening yet), and a yellow variety that hasn’t done well at all.
These are what the Green Zebra tomatoes are looking like – there’s not many and we’ll still have to see if any ripen…
And this is what the label says they might look like when ripened…
Certainly the Tomatoberry seems to be doing well – I keep having to pinch out the new flowers so that it concentrates on developing and ripening the fruit that’s already there. The tomatoes are so firm and sweet, it’s almost like biting into a fruit.
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September 7, 2011 at 1:42 pm
caroline
Wow it must be amazing to see red tomatoes! I think we got some Jamie Oliver tomatoes too from homebase. We bought two plants and put one in a plant pot and I would say we have 3 unripened tomatoes, then we put another in the raised bed and we have a forest of tomatoes but absolutely no way are they going to ripen. Yesterday we had all that rain and wind and we had a piece of wood up against the wall and it fell on the bed – was a disaster so I’ll be fixing that tonight. We also have a courgette plant in there with HUGE courgettes they scared us a little at how fast they grew 🙂 the other half said “it’s all a learning curve” haha
September 7, 2011 at 3:32 pm
CharlieB
It is pretty cool having some red tomatoes, altho not enough to do much with apart from savour eating them as they are – which admittedly is pretty special 🙂 This wind and rain at the moment is insane, I don’t dare go and look what’s happening in my vegetable beds, although everything is quite squat like lettuces so they should be pretty hardy I hope! We are growing some mega (at least I think they are) pumpkins on our allotment and planning to enter one into our local produce show this weekend.
September 14, 2011 at 1:47 pm
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