green tomatoes
Growing tomatoes on the same latitude as Labrador brings certain challenges.
This has been a superb year for tomatoes grown in our greenhouse with bumper crops and a long season.
But the nights are cooler now and the hours of daylight are reducing. It is time to take the tomato plants down and to strip them of their fruit.
We have bowls of juicy red tomatoes waiting in the cool of the garage to be used. And 4lbs of green tomatoes that will not ripen.
So, we use the old gardeners' fall back: green tomato chutney. While I was out enjoying watching Nottingham Forest beat Newcastle United, Jill was making jars of green tomato chutney for use over the coming months.
2 comments:
Rob,
I'm about to harvest the last green tomatoes from mid-summer plantings. Even though we haven't had a good frost (nor a freeze) yet, it's not warm enough really to ripen tomatoes outside.
Glad you had a great tomato year, and enjoy that chutney!
Lisa
I have now cleared our greenhouse in readiness for the winter.
I'm hoping that the wood mice will find somewhere else to raid now that all of the delicious tomatoes have gone!
Rob
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