Tomatoes

[Elaine]

I have six tomato plants which were planted in the greenhouse rather late, some of which are only just ripening, so I reckon I'm going to have rather a lot of green tomatoes this year.

Am I right in thinking I should be decreasing the amount of watering now to (hopefully?) encourage the fruits to ripen?

[Elaine]

Ah well, I reckon I'll trust my instincts.

[Monika]

Elaine, I cut down the watering when the majority of tomatoes starts to ripen and that seems to work. Just don't then suddenly give them a huge amound because that might cause the tomatoes to split!

[Elaine]

Update.
I am amazed that all but half a dozen of the tomatoes on these six plants, have all ripened. Result!

[Westi]

I've had an excellent tomato year. Went down to lottie today & still had ripe tomatoes - unfortunately also had blight damage but it was their turn to go anyway, but still think for 3rd Nov outdoors that is pretty remarkable!

Westi

[Elaine]

Wow, that is excellent Westi! Who would have thought it possible?

I was sure my greenhouse toms wouldn't ripen as there were so many of them. We hadn't been to the allotment for well over a week as we had my son's wedding 26th October, then this last week my chest has been bad again. I was amazed to see all these lovely ripe tomatoes...5 pounds of them! The weather certainly hasn't been "ripening" weather...

Gardening never fails to amaze me.