Well This Is Disappointing 

It's been a crap Summer in the U.K.this year ! working outside in U.K. for over 30 years only one year was as worst as this !!! All my Toms are still green.

I’ve had hundreds off my outdoor tomatoes 🍅 just finished now. Will definitely do it again next year. They did far better than the greenhouse 🍅

strip all the leaves off those outside toms and get some sunlight on those fruits...they will ripen quicker for you ...i did mine last week and they are well on the way now

Hi Tony, the weather has been awful for us all 🙄 you need to chop off some leaves on your outdoor tomatoes to encourage then to ripen. Nice carrot. They are nice tomatoes. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

We do that too in Canada- have dinner int he cold but we also do fires and heaters.

I have had a bumper tomato year despite blight. Managed to can tomatoes and passata and make two tomato jams. Several varieties continued to produce despite a touch of blight. If you grow outdoors it is essential to ensure good ventilation with your tomato plants, strip off lower leaves as soon as you can, don't let any of them touch the ground. When the tomatoes lighten in green colour, strip off the majority of the leaves, the plants will them concentrate on ripening the fruit. Tomatoes ripen from the inside to outside. So, as soon as you see the first signs of a colour change, you can pick and they will ripen indoors. A lot of Tony's fruit could be picked and ripened indoors.

I think if you take off all the tomato flowers the existing tomatoes might ripen quicker. The plant's energy will stop being spent making new tomatoes.

My outdoor tomatoes are doing well. Unfortunately a good portion of them have been taken by squirrels and our labrador 🙄

I took a risk this year and planted my tomatoes when I planted the chilli seeds, I've had tomatoes since the beginning of June and they're still going. The only thing was, I kept them in a warm place for a long time at the beginning with lots of light.

Had a great harvest this year of outside cherry tomato’s, have frozen a lot of them. Main tomato’s are a bit slower, although plants laden with fruit. Think you need to get rid of most of the leaves on your plants to give them more chance of ripening, although difficult on the cherry ones. All outside tomato’s grown in 10” buckets, cherry ones in hanging baskets.

Tony you can pick much of those chillies green, you don't need to wait for them to turn red in September. Using them green massively extends the cropping/use season and the more you pick the more they will reflower.

Fermenting red cabbage is quite nice with grated carrot, onion mustard seeds and dill seeds.

you know those pepper plants can be cut down and overwintered in your house. Water only occasionally - you want them dormant. Then you have a leg up next year. So can eggplants.

I set some toms outside but the weather was rubbish. I was a little late this year due to recovering from a surgery. For the 1st time ever I sent off for tomatoe plants...Never again! I actually bought a 6x4 greenhouse with the weather at the start of spring being so cold. Lost all my plants to blight so I know the plants I bought were infected. I bought some trailing cherry tomatoe plants also from my local market, they did fantastic. I'm set for next year with seeds I have used a few times b4 crimson Crush and also trying the cherry ones.

Maybe getting rid of all those bushey leaves, suckers & everything else would have given those poor little tomato’s half a chance Tony. Too much going on for me there Tony.

That was my plan for this season with the tomotoes. Ended up losing loads of them as I was moving them to the tunnel. They got a little too big, were inpossible to control and as a result loads of then stems snapped near the pots. Be careful ! Broke my heart at the time.

All my outdoor tomatoes got blight 😢

Tony toms would love a lean-to greenhouse against that stone wall.

Tony I grow outdoor toms in SE Northumberland. Sungold & Gardner’s delight cherries produce tons & ripen up to end of October so don’t give up on yours yet cos we are due a few more days of sunshine. I trim my leaves to let the sun at the fruit. Best of luck 🤩

Hey Tony sorry you were poorly while on holiday. Just thinking about your outdoor tomatoes. I think you just left them to do their own thing this year didn’t you? so I guess you’ve learned from that plan. Not to do it next year. There’s now too much greenery on your plants and the toms now need exposing to the light some are under the collapsed plant so not getting any light at all. Hurray carrots!!!🎉

Tony it was 2 degrees here in sunderland very early Friday morning

Great stuff again, i think you need get some paint on them raised beds , other wise may only last another year, if yea lucky , timer prices gone mad

I am in SW and 2 years ago my outdoor bush tomatoes did very well.This year they have got blight but 2 seem to have recovered and are starting to yield.Fingers crossed. Where did you go in Sardegna? Used to live in Sicily.Septemebr is the end of summer and can be s bit stormy.

Tony, I have a green house full of undersized green tomatoes. I honestly thought you were going to say something else when you said you had the shivers 😂

Very poor summer this time weather wise here in West Yorkshire. Certainly noticing a difference in the crops this year compared to last. My Cheery Falls tomatoes seem to have done ok in the box houses but at home in the green house very poor quantity this time. Keep up the good work.

I have only had ONE crop of outdoor tomatoes in my 30yrs of gardening...admittedly I haven't planted them every year..but still, it has been a very weird few years, good job I like green chutney :D

Great video Tony mate. Funny enough I've just picked 2 big jars of red cabbage. Cut cabbage up into a bowl with plenty of salt leave 24 hours. Then I just add malt vinegar to a pan I add spices and bay leaf and a couple of tea spoons of sugar bring to boil then leave a hour or so then add it to jar of cabbage. Bloody lovely.

Sauerkraut would be great with that red cabbage.

Hope you're fully recovered now Tony.

Hi Tony, sorry about your outdoor tomatoes. I think you might have a better chance for them ripening if you removed most if not all of the bottom leaves. By the looks of it your plot is neglected save for the cabbages. Maybe get the weeds out and perhaps getting some autumn and winter veg in.

Delia SMith has a great red cabbage recipe