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Granny Smith · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:44 am

Do we need a separate forum for telling others about success in our backyard farms?

I'm letting you all know that I have now passed the 100 kg mark for tomatoes from two punnets of plants (grosse lisse and roma).

Must say I'm sick of the sight of them. I've made several batches of tomato soup concentrate, ketchup, relish, sauce, puree, sundried, and heaps of gazpacho and still given away at least 15 kgs. And they're not finished yet :duck:

Food&Fish · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:44 am

This year i have had the worst crop of tomatoes i have ever had just enough to keep us in salads
Normaly we do as granny smith

Lord Viykor · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:21 am

Sounds like a great haul Granny Smith.

I think we managed about 4kg of tomatoes cooked down and frozen, must be close to 5kg of habaneroes now with heaps still on the plants. Maybe 1kg of birdseyes and for the first time ever mangoes, we've cooked and pureed about 8kg of them. We've run out of freezer space in our place.

When will your growing season end/taper off?

earthbound · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:22 pm

Over 100kg??? :shock:

That's a damn good tomato crop from two punnets of tomatoes, great work..

Did you have any problems with blossom end rot on the roma tomatoes? I have great difficulty growing them at my place, they always get blossom end rot.

pistolknight · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:28 pm

Mine to EB, only Roma's in AP and Dirt, roma's taking off again in AP and no problems this time around with BER

earthbound · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:42 pm

I had BER in both AP, and dirt and in pots with potting mix... So have given up on Romas, There are plenty of other paste type tomatoes that do better for me, so I'll go with them instead.

Tristrin · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:20 pm

Granny Smith wrote:

Must say I'm sick of the sight of them. I've made several batches of tomato soup concentrate, ketchup, relish, sauce, puree, sundried, and heaps of gazpacho and still given away at least 15 kgs. And they're not finished yet

Did you manage to find any 'Ezy Sauce' over in the West?

Granny Smith · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:06 am

No blossom end rot in my Romas, but some sunburn on both types after I heavily pruned the vines. I also lost some to water damage when the reticulation broke through the mulch.

Tristrin, I'm hot on the trail of 'Ezy-Sauce'. One of my neighbours mentioned that she buys it from Coles, so I'll check them out when I'm in Perth this week. Only IGA near us and no sign of it there.

Granny Smith · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2010 12:53 am

Forgot to say, that I have tracked down some Ezy Sauce, Tristrin. Haven't used it yet, tho'. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

The tomato saga continues with at least 125kgs by now (not exactly sure as I've given up weighing the b.... things. Still at least another 15 kgs of green ones on the vines. Several of the stakes holding them up have broken, so they're sprawling all over the ground. I'm thinking of pulling the lot out so that I don't have to think about them again. Or maybe, with luck, they'll all succumb to a fungus!

chillidude · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2010 11:07 am

125kg

- very impressive GS - I'll be happy if I can get half that out of my AP system next summer !

pistolknight · **Posted:** Wed May 05, 2010 1:47 pm

should be Slagtime forum, my tom's went fine but this crazy weather we are having, cold one day and hot the next is confusing the fruit tree's and the chooks and the winter veggies are looking sick plus 40 trout deaths so nocky's backyard is not the happiest at the moment

earthbound · **Posted:** Thu May 06, 2010 4:44 pm

Damn it, 125kg..?????? :clap:

Tristrin · **Posted:** Thu May 06, 2010 5:06 pm

Granny Smith wrote:

Forgot to say, that I have tracked down some Ezy Sauce, Tristrin. Haven't used it yet, tho'. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

Good to hear. Let me know what you think of it when you get around to using it....I don't follow the recipe on the back, but make my own variations to it.

Tristrin · **Posted:** Thu May 06, 2010 5:12 pm

Nocky....I voted for your wife's new kitchen....I have to agree with her, she needs a new kitchen :sad2:

Who is responsible for that pink wall??? Love the ornaments hanging from it though 8-)

pistolknight · **Posted:** Thu May 06, 2010 5:38 pm

Thanks Tristrin, it came with the house :shock:

and the kitchen works, so not on my priority list but am helping her promote the comp, I think she is number 6 on the list now, so keep voting and if you know others that would vote please email them

, the ornaments are all copper, she collects copper mainly from a long closed Tasmanian copper factory called Weeda, all is hallmarked weeda, and most from Ebay and lowest prices, it is going up in price though, we do find some pieces at garage sales, antique shops seem to be onto it and charge like wounded bulls, so we avoid those

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