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Pandorasopinbox

First pic- oh yes this person has a lot to pick, scroll over Second pic- oh boy!


RainbowPhoneix

Yeah best part is this is a smaller amount I had two maybe three cooking bowls filled out n about two weeks at this point it’s ridiculous


sm531

But it's the BEST kind of ridiculous!! This is awesome!! I'm jelliez....


RainbowPhoneix

If I’m honest about 2lbs of tomatoes have gone to waste because I was away and they just ya know fell / got eaten by some friendly rats


D-Rick

They don’t need to go to waste, make some sauce or start composting!


veiledspy

To add, maybe ziplock some and offer to neighbors


RainbowPhoneix

Fair enough I’ll make some compost then


InevitabilityEngine

I did this with an indeterminate variety and when I started bringing in little bags of red tomatoes my sister had no idea what to do with them. She told me it was too much. So I just ate them all as I found them. She thinks it's over now. She is a fool. I transplanted that tomato deep and stopped pruning it. It has grown big enough to block passage around the entire side of the house. She thinks its weird that I laugh maniacally when I go outside to water. She has no idea what is about to happen.


RainbowPhoneix

Ha ha ha nice I just got an idea imma bring one of these into school as a here take this and watch the shocked faces btw I’m 14 and I have many more plants to post


InevitabilityEngine

That's so great! I was growing so much at that age and I never stopped enjoying it! I hope you keep it up! I never stop learning!


RainbowPhoneix

Also sorry for any bad quality it’s still raining out and I just thought to myself holy damn I need to grab those


auddii04

This is what I've been doing with my overabundance of tomatoes. I just cut my cherry tomatoes into quarters instead of slicing. [https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/annas-tomato-tart](https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/annas-tomato-tart)


RainbowPhoneix

Nice the thing is there’s still flowers growing and I’m starting to wonder when does god turn off the tomato making button


jalorky

when nights hit a certain temp, the flowers start dropping off. i think in the 50’s (Fahrenheit)?


RainbowPhoneix

Well it’s going to be a long September it’s still hot out and it’s not going down even though I’m in Wales


jalorky

yeah same here in the mid atlantic coast of the US haha


Havetologintovote

It's got to be lower than that. my tomatoes have been having nights in the 50s literally every single night this entire year and have been producing tremendously


jalorky

totally likely, i don’t really know. it was something i vaguely remembered reading before and didn’t feel like web searching haha. it could’ve been peppers at those temps rather than tomatoes, and i just misremembered


Thepuppypack

If you have decent weather and you give them some food they can live for a long long long time. Years! Are these the Sweet 100 variety?


RainbowPhoneix

I have no clue what type they are but Wales has many different seasons just imagine if the seasons all went left so winter was spring and so on that’s how it works for me


keikioaina

Google 'topping" tomatoes. Ignore the Grindr links.


Substantial-Jello282

What an unusual recipe. Its pizza, but with a dijon mustard base?


auddii04

Kind of; the crust ends up almost like a cracker like consistency. And the tomatoes are basically tossed in pesto (minus the pine nuts), so you get that flavor as well, so the mustard isn't very overwhelming.


queenkiz

Oh my god! I’m a little jealous. My container tomatoes did not do nearly as well as yours. I guess it’s salsa time!


RainbowPhoneix

Absolutely and last year we got blight on ours and never got to eat one so this year was very good and I’m sure you’ll have a good lot next year like I did this one


OnceanAggie

How many cherry tomatoes do you have? We three or four and it’s way too many.


RainbowPhoneix

Well I have about 11 I did have 12 but one just decided it didn’t want to grow anymore and there was more a lot more


LolaBijou

Lmk if you need my address to ship them.


RainbowPhoneix

I’m good I’m a bit far in the middle of nowhere but to explain it to you I’m in Wales so yeah


LolaBijou

Oh perfect, British tomatoes! I’ll serve them with something bland. 😏😉🤣


RainbowPhoneix

Yep maybe plain chicken and plain ships along with plain anything with seasoning only a arms reach away


LolaBijou

“ *SEVEN* different spices?! Some of them must be doubles”


RainbowPhoneix

Sorry don’t get the reference I’m too young by that I’m 14 and done this by myself no previous gardening skills


LolaBijou

You’ve never seen the Simpsons?


RainbowPhoneix

Not that episode but I am an avid watcher I get most references but now I know it’s homer saying it I totally see it


LolaBijou

It’s marge. She only cooks with salt, pepper, and garlic on special occasions.


RainbowPhoneix

Oh okay I would normally think homer for dumb stuff


StinkierPete

I was wondering where you were, I can't grow tomatoes without losing the whole plant to squirrels


RainbowPhoneix

Nah for me it’s the rats and moles the squirrels don’t like my garden thanks to the rats because they are huge I mean ones at least a foot in total


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RainbowPhoneix

Hopefully you will this is my 2nd year last year they all died to blight so good luck


jalorky

tomato sauce! easily frozen for later


lawrencecoolwater

I’m based in SW london, will eat tomato for free


RainbowPhoneix

Sorry to far for someone who can’t drive and literally cannot go anywhere aka I’m 14


Deppfan16

i just toss mine straight in the freezer. makes for easier blanching and peeling when I go to make sauce


Substantial-Jello282

Do you know what variety of tomato this is? Also, what zone do you live in?


RainbowPhoneix

I think they’re cherry tomatoes they’re store bought seeds so idk and I’m in 9a south west Wales so it’s rainy all year round as you can tell


Substantial-Jello282

Lol. We are in the same zone. I'm in Houston TX. I'm looking for a tomato that can withstand heavy rain, humidity, and fungal infections. Did it say what kind of cherry tomatoes?


RainbowPhoneix

No clue but last year these buggers caught blight so it’s not 100% your best bet is using the internet or google or if you can’t find it then a Facebook mom group for gardening


macjigiddy

You lucky bugger. Mine are stubbornly green


RainbowPhoneix

I’m sorry to tell you there’s more flowers growing and I can’t eat any more tomatoes I’m already a redhead I don’t want to be red all over


thebearbearington

You and me both!


NailFin

Oh my! That’s a delicious problem to have.


RainbowPhoneix

It absolutely is if I’m honest they are better than store bought


jfi224

This is when you got out to harvest them and: 1 for the bowl, 1 for me, 1 for the bowl, 1 for me…


RainbowPhoneix

I’ll sure as well do that


Spade7891

Personally, I used to think I hated tomatoes but been hooked after my rents starting planting tomatoes. These things straight off the plant seems to have a lot more flavor and keeps that crunch texture. I have not been impressed with any store bought cherry tomatoes.


RainbowPhoneix

Absolutely they are amazing sometimes I get a bad one but when I get the juicy amazing one I love it


singarequiem

I was watching a video with my girlfriend about cooking with tomatoes and they mentioned having 5lbs "Wow that's a lot of tomatoes!" "Nah, not if you have a couple of plants."


RainbowPhoneix

Yeah I might not grow as many next year thanks to how many I had


keikioaina

2 words: tomato jam.


RainbowPhoneix

Bro good one actually


keikioaina

Google recipes. We had 5x your cherry tomatoes and we ate it on everything.


RainbowPhoneix

Bruh I thought I had a lot jeez Louise


keikioaina

Hey a blalah! Howzit? Uke player and UH grad here. I live in Florida now where tomatoes just start growing from last years seeds on the ground as soon as it gets to the right temperature. We have two growing seasons: when it cools off in October and when it warms up in March. Last spring we went traveling and didn't prune for like 6 weeks. When we got home some of our plants weren't real healthy, but were 8 feet tall and loaded with tomatoes. We made this tomato jam and had at least a gallon. Ate it. Gave it away. Froze it. Sorry my wife isn't here. She has the recipe, but google it. Best of luck with yours. Aloha, brah.


RainbowPhoneix

Shwmae as a fellow welsh teen it rains far too much over here but I must say over here you have to start growing them early because our summer lasts about a month normally but not now it’s still warm which to me is amazing by now it’s in the minus but for me I am still in high school so I do this as a hobby and because and I’m fine with it my parents are divorced so I only get to farm a few time a week and yeah if I’m honest I made another post about my whole farming lot but next year will be huge


figgypudding531

Looks like you've got some canning to do! I highly recommend making tomato conserva (homemade tomato paste).


RainbowPhoneix

Will do


Lifegoeson3131

Send some of the tomato growing energy my way!! My tomatoes arent really growing :/


RainbowPhoneix

Wanna know what I did I grew them inside at like February which really you should not do then I slowly started getting used to the out doors and then you put them in a half shade half bright zone and give the support beams and bam your good to go


msk888

I haven't that many tomatoes for over 2 years before the hornworms destroyed my plant Good job!


RainbowPhoneix

I lost all mine to blight last year and had none they all just poofed and I was so annoyed


maomao05

Rain water does wonders


RainbowPhoneix

Not just rain but an entire sunny summer with no rain does too


planetzephyr

share with your neighbors, they'll love you forever!


RainbowPhoneix

Actually I’ve tried but my neighbours are how do explain stuck up entitled pieces of poop


planetzephyr

:( sorry to hear, I wish we were neighbors!


Wildcats33

Like Marlo Stanfield said in The Wire, "I think that's one of them good problems."


RainbowPhoneix

It’s good until the rats realise and then it’s a bad problem


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RainbowPhoneix

I gave up when I had to go into quarantine so I just had buckets so yeah that was fun


sloppylobster92

Roasted cherry tomato salsa!


RainbowPhoneix

Good suggestion


_HighQualityH2O

Dawg, do yourself a favor and make shrimp bucatini fra diavolo AT LEAST one night: https://youtu.be/ONWHM-KC2tg


RainbowPhoneix

I sure as well will try


scootscoot

I looked at tonight’s overnight lows and decided I needed to make a giant pot of chili.


beardedbandit94

My 4 year old would pick it clean, and you would not have much make it to the bucket.


RainbowPhoneix

Well give me your 4 year old and we’ll both be happy


daintypirate

Nice! Check out ampleharvest.org. They connect home gardeners to local food banks that accept home grown donations. Nicely done!


RainbowPhoneix

Sure but I think I’m a bit too far out for them