tomatoes.

raven83

raven83 wrote: »

Why a bannana lol?

now i know why i will try that! thankyou.

raven83

ive got shirley tomatoes if that makes any difference?

DaftyDuck

raven83 wrote: »

Why a bannana lol?

Ripe bananas give off ethylene, and this acts as a ripening hormone on other fruit.

raven83

DaftyDuck wrote: »

Ripe bananas give off ethylene, and this acts as a ripening hormone on other fruit.

Well i didnt know that till today!!! Learnt something new i will leave my toms a couple more weeks then i shall try it out and see what happens, thanks for all your replies :j:j

powershopper

You're doing all the right things raven,,just sit back with a pimms/lemonade/beer/coffee, and think of salads

lizzyb1812

Raven - you have done what I did last year - you have planted Shirley tomatoes outside. When they seemed to be very slow to ripen I did a bit of research and found out that they are really a greenhouse tomato :eek:

Nevertheless I just left them to it and sure enough time sorted it out beautifully - they just ripened after all my other varieties

yumyums

A gardening expert recommended hanging banana skins over your tomato plants to help the fruit ripen, so maybe try saving your skins after you've eaten them. You won't waste any bananas this way either!

MissMoneypenny

alleycat` wrote: »

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I'm a bit surprised you've had none ripen up yet.
I'm in the middle of a glut but it might be i started off earlier than you did.

I'm getting lots of ripe tomatoes on the vine too, but I grow all mine in pots and keep them outside in a very sunny, sheltered spot in sunny Kent. I water once or twice a day and feed once a week. One end of my rows is giving more ripe tomatoes than the other end, so I think it is just a case of waiting, Raven

I planted the seeds in March and April. The March seed plantings of Sungolds' are giving lots of tomatoes every day; the April seeds of Super Sweet 100, have given about 10 ripe tomatoes.

What surprised me was that I have already picked 3 large (225g each) ripe Black Krim tomatoes! Although I planted the seeds in March for Black Krim, the 1 plant that has given me the 3 ripe tomaotes so far, went from it's paper seed pot, straight into it's large final pot as I had run out of middle size pots. Has anyone else found this with their tomatoes?

Black Krim and Super Sweet 100 seeds were brought from ebay for pennies. The Black Krim seeds were a real bargain; 100 seeds for 99p plus postage of 50p. I just planted 20 of them and 19 germinated. Sungold seeds brought from Wilkinsons.

raven83

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

Raven - you have done what I did last year - you have planted Shirley tomatoes outside. When they seemed to be very slow to ripen I did a bit of research and found out that they are really a greenhouse tomato :eek:

Nevertheless I just left them to it and sure enough time sorted it out beautifully - they just ripened after all my other varieties

hi so what are the other varieties that ripen quicker then?

Sally_A

Gardener's Delight are always the first to ripen for me.