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I have to admit I prefer sowing the seed and growing the plants to actually eating the tomatoes! Having said that, I cleared out all the ripe tomatoes from the greenhouse today and OH and I made a batch of tomato sauce for things like pasta, pizza etc. Got a few more that should ripen in the next few days and then some green ones for chutney and it will all be over for another year.

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Sorry it wasn't a good year for you, Angie. Mine have the blight, so will probably pull them out tomorrow. Luckily I have some still that Chris brought, and can pick up locally grown ones for a while at the Farmers market. I refuse to eat "Winter tomatoes". Did you get a lot of jars of sauce?

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Had a look at the varieties I have, they're.

Money Maker,
Totem,
Gardeners Delight,

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A word about the tomato plague, I noticed a few weeks ago some of the leaves were turning greyish, this spread to the stems which resulted in some the fruits dying, I cut the offending parts off and it seems to have done the trick.

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Have you had a lot of damp weather? That could be powdery mildew. My experience with the blight is that the leaves yellow, dry up and drop.

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No it wasn't mildew DM, the affected parts were hard an brittle, I suspect it's a virus of some sort, never seen it before.

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That's a new one to me; all we need, another tomato virus!

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The toms are ripening slowwwwly, I've tasted some and they're very nice, there's still a lot of greenies though, I hope they'll ripen off before the frosts.

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If the frosts are forecast and there's no chance of your toms ripening outside, pull 'em up and hang 'em upside down in a frost free place (?shed) Some of them will turn red over the following weeks. And remember the banana skin trick

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I tried that to no avail DM, I put 2 banana skins in a bowl and left some toms in it for 2 weeks but nothing happened.