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Thread ID: 115683	2011-01-30 06:19:00	Tomatoes	TideMan (4279)	PC World Chat

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1173681	2011-01-30 06:19:00	Today we became self-sufficient in tomatoes - yee haaa!!! No more exorbitantly priced ($4 to %5 per kg), tasteless white/orange things that have been picked too early. Fresh, vine-ripened, toms for us from now on. How do the supermarkets and greengrocers get away with selling that rubbish at those prices?	TideMan (4279)
1173682	2011-01-30 06:21:00	Mine have been slowly coming through for the last two weeks.	plod (107)
1173683	2011-01-30 09:54:00	I grow tomatoes in home made compost every year. I have been losing a lot to frost in past years so this year I spent a little extra and bought larger vines so that they mature earlier. This seems to be working out so far. At the moment I have a lot of good size green tomatoes. I have had only had three that have ripened enough to eat so far. I can see me making tomato chutney and freezing stewed tomatoes in the near future.	Bobh (5192)
1173684	2011-01-30 11:00:00	At the moment I have a lot of good size green tomatoes. I have had only had three that have ripened enough to eat so far. I can see me making tomato chutney and freezing stewed tomatoes in the near future. I have found it worth while making some Tomato purée.	mikebartnz (21)
1173685	2011-01-30 12:11:00	Nothing like the flavour of a tomato (or sweetcorn or raspberries, or runner beans or peas) picked from your own garden - especially if eaten within minutes of picking!! :thumbs:	johcar (6283)
1173686	2011-01-30 19:21:00	No more exorbitantly priced ($4 to %5 per kg), tasteless white/orange things that have been picked too early. Pak N Save sell Beekist tomatoes, summer only. These have a few varieties, the small vine ones do have taste. They do have the price as well though. We grow tomatoes again now, but down in Southland we only ever had one year of success with them.	pctek (84)
1173687	2011-01-30 19:22:00	Nothing like the flavour of a tomato (or sweetcorn or raspberries, or runner beans or peas these are fine) picked from your own garden - especially if eaten within minutes of picking!! :thumbs: Hmm tomatoes we gave up growing them as none of us eat them instead used the space for much more enjoyble veg that we do eat. Have almost been self sufficient this summer for vegetables for the first time	gary67 (56)
1173688	2011-01-30 20:38:00	Our tomatoes are coming through now, along with cucumbers, capsicum, beans, cabbages, beetroot, lettuces, snowpeas, eggplant, and enough chillis to heat a small city. I picked our first two peaches this week - the only two on a dwarf tree I planted last year - and they were juicy and delicious. As johcar says, picking from your own garden is the best in terms of flavour, presumably because they are ripe and fresh when picked. Even beetroot is better out of your own garden, and you know there are no chemicals on anything you pick at home.	John H (8)
1173689	2011-01-30 20:55:00	do yo need a greenhouse or at least something to cover the tomatoes? tried chilli once that died, many moons ago, bought those coriander or parsely plants from the supermarket they dont' survive in that container alone eh ... that died also - a few of them.	Nomad (952)
1173690	2011-01-30 21:03:00	I have a greenhouse for the tomatoes, capsicum, chillis, eggplant, and cucumber, and there is also a lime tree in there. However, I also have outside tomatoes and they have set but aren't yet ripe. Hard to believe you could kill parsley! The story is to plant them out in a sunny place and keep them watered. Coriander grows like mad outside too (I am in North Canterbury) but if you plant it too late in the season, it just bolts to seed. It is best to plant it in early spring, and keep the frosts off with frost cloth. That way you get to harvest the coriander for a decent period of time before it goes to seed. You can even grow it through the winter. We got enough coriander last year for SWMBO to make coriander pesto. Smear it over a fillet of gurnard, and then pan fry fairly quickly. It forms a tasty crust on the outside of the fish... Yum	John H (8)
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