Tomatoes too late?

Spender£

Tried growing some fruit and veg in containers this year as an experiment for the first time.

I grew tomato plants from seed but they are only just ripening as it seems i am much to late with these this year so another rookie mistake.

I have quite a few of them and wondered if i can somehow at least get something out of them before the weather cools down.

Would moving them into a conservatory help or hinder them or should i just put this down to experience and rebound better with knowledge next year?

RobM99

I've some that are still green!

Grandmama

I have cherry tomatoes in pots outside cropped very well this year. But with the lack of warm sunshine now I have cut all the last green tomatoes off the plant leaving them on a vine. Placed on a tray with newspaper on a sunny windowsill, added an Apple or you could use a banana and getting enough ripened red toms every few days. Very happy with results

comeandgo

I usually still have green tomatoes on the vine at the end, I just pick them, put them in a sunny spot inside on a window and they will ripen.  There are recipes for green tomato chutney too if you don’t want to wait on them to ripen.

Silvertabby

I've still got a few green tomatoes in the greenhouse (after a bumper crop!).

Any that haven't ripened on the vine by the end of September will be picked and brought into the conservatory to finish off.

Note:  Tomatoes only.  The leaves are toxic to cats and furry madam is a bit of a nibbler.

LessImpecunious

Still plenty of time for toms to ripen, at least in areas where you're not expecting heavy frosts any time soon - I've had ones in pots in a greenhouse ripen up until Christmas in a mild year... But if you can move them into a conservatory the extra warmth should help speed things up.

Spender£

Thanks all!

twopenny

Green tomato chutney.

https://lovelygreens.com/spicy-green-tomato-chutney/

Mine are still ripening but slowly. If you have had no red ones put a supermarket one on top of the green ones. They absorbe something from the ripened ones. I've had this work before.

Are you giving them Tomatorite liquid food?

But yes, not a good year. First the drought and excessive heat then the rain and mine have mostly split because of it.

Lots of green ones I'm hoping for some more sun to ripen.

I've made green tomato chutney before. Lasts forever and is lovely in a cheese sandwich or with cold meat.

droopsnoot

I've still got flowers on some of my plants, but I'm not sure they will come to anything. I think I've got one plant that I could really put in the bin now, but it has a green shoot that looks like it might be about to flower so I'm leaving it for a bit. A suggestion elsewhere was that it's unlikely that any flowers will convert to fruit this late on.

elsien

This time of year I’ve already taken the remaining flowers off so the plant can concentrate on the tomatoes that have set. 

Lots of mine have split as well although I was really careful during the hot spell and was watering two and three times a day in the pots. Still eating them once I’ve checked there’s no slugs dived inside. My plants are staying outside for now to carry on ripening then when it gets a bit colder I’ll do the green tomato windowsill thing that someone has already suggested.

sheramber

Yo.u can make green tomaoto chutney