First tomatoes very nearly ripe!

I’ve got about 30 tomato plants in the Polytunnel and a few outside and will be making batches of my yummy chutney again this year. I’m growing several varieties of cherry, beefsteak and plum tomatoes and a few additional plants have self seeded in the central raised beds alongside other plants!

@Witzend
The taste will depend on the variety planted, not the fact that they’re home grown. Maybe buy some tomato seeds from your local garden centre to plant next year and look for a variety that is especially sweet and tasty?

Success!

Oops, despite being staked, one of my plants had fallen right over this morning - sheer weight of the fruit, plus presumably added weight of rain on leaves.
I’ve just been out with a stout stake, scissors and twine - fingers Xed.

I am checking mine everyday, still green. I put them in a bit late, first time I've grown them for some years. Must do it earlier next year, the taste of tomatoes straight off the plant is so lovely.

However, our peacocks have also been checking them, so need to get there first!

It was just a few days after mine evidently stopped swelling that they started to change colour, and then it took 2-3 days.

So roughly how much longer before mine ripen please?

These are from our allotment greenhouse today . Greek salad later

Oh no, Witzend, how annoying, but at least the sauce suggestions here sound yummy. Mine have still a way to go.

Well done, mine all collapsed with some brown spotted virus thing 3 weeks ago, they were huge beefsteak tomatoes too.

Oh well, maybe next year.....

take them off when just turning ie slightly yellowish. Wrap each in paper eg amazon packaging paper and keep them inside. Mine are are ripening beautifully like this and the taste is incredible. If they are too tiny to wrap then put them into a dish with something dark and airy on top like a plate. Mine are all oudoor tomatoes

Might have known there’d be a catch!
We ate the first 2 last night, taste was disappointing, a bit nothing-y, not the lovely sweet flavour I’d been expecting.

I can see myself still buying tomatoes to eat raw - and using mine to make a lot of tomato/onion/celery/pepper sauce for the freezer.

My hanging basket tomatoes (Tumbler) have been ripening for about 10 days now but the beauty of that variety is that you can move it around the garden so that it gets maximum sunshine to ripen them. The Alicante and Gardener's Delight in the greenhouse have only started to ripen this week and I've cropped a handful so far but there are many more to come. The cucumber plant is weighted down with far more cucumbers than I know what to do with. Recipes anyone?

Well done with your toms.

Just been to look at mine. 12 plants in polytunnel. So sad. 2 have blight. Got 3 outside so fingers crossed for those. They are beefeater variety.

Mine too Witzend. I've never grown any fruit or vegetable before so I am excited too. I have no idea what type they are, the tiny original plant was a freebie from someone's garden wall.