can i pick you brain regarding tomatoes please

spud30

LOL

Now that I've seen the piccys, I don't think I've done ours right either.

Complicated this gardening business isn't it !!!!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

..no....its not complicated........it just knowing what the individual plants like..... bit like my kids really.. know what food they like and dont like.....and if they like sun or not......my grandfather was a brill gardener, but my mother dont like plants at all, so i think it might be a generation thing... my grand father was brought up with nothing, so had to grow food for the table...and mend and make do.. totally old style.... then my mother.. it was so easy to go to the shop and buy it... rather than grow or mend it... so...i really wish he was around now.. so i could ask him, and my gran these questions....

thats why i love the old style threads as they also remind me of my gran parents and the things they used to do.....

anyway... sorry went off on one......

anyway you wait until you taste yuor tomatoes straight from the greenhouse...mmmmmm i can taste them now... totally diff from shop bought ones.....when i pick my ones... i eat loads by the time i get to the back door.......

spud30

I agree.

Just the smell of my tomato plants, ickle as they are, brings back so many memories of my dad's greenhouse. Unfortunately, his never went red and we lived off green tomato chutney for ages. Maybe being bad gardeners runs in the family. He died over 20 years ago, so no idea where he went wrong.

Someone the other day mentioned drying washing on a mangle and I was lost in memories of being at my great gran's house.

I love it here too, for the same reason as you...reminds me of things long forgotten.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

same here my grandfather died neally 20 years and my gran neally 10 years... and i can still see him in his make shift greenhouse.... and still smell my grans cooking on a saturday afternoon... thats when she done her weekly big cook of sponges cakes etc......
and what amazed me ....my gran never weighed any of the ingredients... and my grand father never read a gardening book.....its what they learned from their parents...and relatives......

bet that that green chutney was lovely .....

wigginsmum

That's how I learned with cooking - I don't weigh cake or pastry ingredients either (although I do with bread as I have less experience with it).

spud30

My biggest regret is that I didn't pay more attention and gain some of their knowledge.

I lived with my grandparents growing up, and assumed they would be around forever. My nan always did the trraditional meat and 2 veg. Braising steak done all day and things like that. We always ate really well, but none of us were overweight...I am now !!!

I can't cook for toffee, and as you know, my gardening is still in it's early days. My DD didn't even know cakes could be made at home till she went to her friends house and his mum was so excited to have a girl to bake with, they made cakes all afternoon.

I am determined to learn, with the help of the folks on here :j

COOLTRIKERCHICK

the thing is.. you can never see the day when they are not around.....until they are gone.......
and the old style cooking, housekeeping and gardening.....were in my opinion the best.... it was all basic......but it worked....and i feel that its got to be kept going... the cooking at home... growing vegatables.....home keeping.. the lot otherwise the kids today will not have a clue, and will totally rely on the supermarkets ready meals, and veg... and god knows what they put in them or spray on them........yes i hold my hand up..... to buying all that junk, but now since i have found mse... a lot have things have changed in my life... for the better........

i now have an allotment.... which is really hard going....i am now making full use of my greenhouse, which over the years..i have had it... i have only played at it so to speak.....

so thats why i needed advice on my tomatoes.. so i can make full use of them green or red.....

and wigginsmum... i take my hat off to you... if i tried cooking cakes without weighing.. my fairy cakes.... would be heavier than lead......

spud30

The sprays and the addiditves are the worrying thing, because no-one knows what the long term effects will be.

I have my tomatoes growing in the conservatory and we have just built a raised herb bed. From what I understand, we are a bit late to do much else this year, but will start earlier next year and hopefully grow much more.

whatamess_2

I too am growing tomatoes for the first time, know what you mean about the smell of them taking you back. It really does me too. My grandad has been dead 10 years now and my Gran has dementia. Grans Sunday Roast ,yum yum ,nothing like it.
Any way back to the tomatoes the leaves on mine are curling up and dying!!
Any body tell me whats the matter?
Messy

spud30

A couple of the leaves on mine have done that Messy.

Are you watering them every day?

Listen to me, trying to sound like I know what I'm doing :rotfl: