Tomatoes - Finally some tomatoes!! Plus Coriander and Chicory. Ep 234 || Plot 37

I know, I know... its September (nearly October) and we are only now getting the first real flush of the Toms. What a year this has been chaps, seriously!! But we carry on. Sowing coriander for both outdoors under the environmesh/veggiemesh ( gardening-natu... ) and in seed trays for the polytunnel.
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[@mandytaylor1008]

Little Lilly loving her her cuddles 🥰

[@JosExotics]

Absolutely agree on the Tomato front. No punch

[@samanthahoos9827]

❤Yeah, baking bread while watching - Thank you! 😊

[@leehoward6969]

So heart felt when you picked your tomatoes, passion rules our natural right for being part of our own creation ,god bless them green fingers ❤

[@ninemoonplanet]

People in Canada with a greenhouse put buckets or barrels (dark or black) filled with water to modify the temperature of the greenhouse. It's like having a static warmer. Some set them in full sun. Others add a dark shade cloth on the North side inside the greenhouse to absorb early morning sun, usually the coldest part of the day.

[@dalemcgeachie6584]

my tomatoes have been awesome this year

[@ameliagfawkes512]

Tyranny is always "super easy" in the beginning!

[@mandytaylor1008]

Soon be time for garlic onions and bulbs 👍👍👍cheers🍸😊

[@joanpulley9722]

Totally agree with you on the lack of sweetness in the tomatoes. Thank you for info about chickens. Love that little Lilly cat.

[@christinebrooks6364]

Hi Jessie and your Mum, aww, lovely Lil, loving her cuddles ❤ nice tomato harvest 🍅 another lovely video update. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

[@marthasidney2387]

Cheers! So glad you have been able to harvest at least some tomatoes.

[@Gardenofglory-l6v]

Hi Jessie enjoy your outing with mum for her birthday, it was a wonderful video today ❤

[@helenhawkins4054]

What a beautiful caterpillar ❤

[@richardhart7652]

Talking of things that just didn't get going this year we usually have a jungle of self sown nasturtiums just three and grew flowered till last week we now have about one hundred seedlings all over the place but I doubt that they'll come to anything as I need to weed and plant up spring bulbs and we have only just been frost free several nights recently. To ripen the toms you just need the banana peal and has to be in contact with with the plant IE hang on a lower leaf or truss. Pears don't need to actually touch the plant but hang them about half way uo the plants

[@lobodo988]

I always appreciate the close-ups. Like the zinnias 👍 Wouldn’t complain if you had close-ups in every video

[@kimme0469]

I find that the timing is key for developing a great tasting tomato. Remember, you planted VERY late this year. We were literally harvesting our first tomatoes of the season the same week that you were planting yours. The first harvest is always some of the best, but we have had an amazing year for tomatoes. You'll notice that early spring greens, radishes and peas grow much sweeter in the cool months. The hours of sunlight make a big difference in the growing and ripening of your tomatoes. If you don't plant during the proper times, the plants just don't have the opportunity for the best flavor. Also, let your tomatoes fully ripen on the vine. The matter of a couple of days can make a world of difference in the sweetness factor. There's a science of fructose development. If it is plucked to early or late it can dramatically change the flavor. Also I would recommend asking others in the allotment how their tomatoes are this year and compare notes. Best wishes. Keep trying!

[@teresaedwards3659]

Jessie, I haveTuesdays off and your video is the highlight of my day ! Happy Birthday to your Mum!(belated)

[@oscar-nme]

Gailan is probably one of my top 3 favourite vegetables. It's definitely worth growing!!

[@patnicholls131]

Loving the vlogs. I grew sungold for the first time and was not blown away by the sweetness. I will try again next year though, along with some of the multicoloured ones.

[@StephenFBentley]

relieved to find that I was not the only one to be disappointed by the taste of my tomatoes. i grew alice's dream, Pork chop, Black treffelli, sungold, garnet, to name a few. early blight slaughtered those planted outside.

[@samanthahoos9827]

❤ I can’t believe you still have tomatoes!😮Mine are done and I’m eating sauce from 2023 with my pasta. Zucchini is finally producing but beds are waiting for garlic to be delivered. 😊

[@helenhawkins4054]

Thanks for the info on the chook registration 👍happy birthday to mum 💐🎂 the😂tomatoes think Greece SUNSHINE ☀️

[@tamararoberts9307]

Yeah it's no wonder with the weather this year. Our sungolds aren't as sweet and they're hubby's favorite. Hoping next year will be better . We shall see . 🍻 ❤

[@brigidatorenconnorodonnell341]

Our tomatoes were great here in New Zealand from January to April 2024, they were so sweet and had the wow factor, but it was thirty five degrees Celsius many days, and not a lot of rain for summer and autumn. Also had to collect water in a couple of water tanks for the garden due to not much rain!

[@annaking9213]

Veggie looking good.

[@jonquilhawthorne3257]

Did you know you can add a few tomato green tops to your tomato soup. Add a carrot & cream ! What's not to like 😊

[@louishiggins8881]

It's been a funny old growing year - I guess a "traditional" British summer - which is why package holidays to Spain became so popular 😂. My outdoor green tomatoes are slowly ripening, surprisingly given the current weather, so they are being baked in the oven with olive oil rather than being eaten on the patio with meats and a salad and a nice chianti. Going to try Tigerella next year. My courgettes are still delivering, but a lot of the "fruit" don't set properly or just rot - I think that is down to poor pollination - certainly the number of insects, particularly bees have been well below normal 😢. But then there is always next year 😁. New Years resolution (already) - organise the garden better 😂.

[@jeanlauridsen8596]

I prefer the Rose than the tomatoes. Also good to see ,it's not snowing there yet.

[@PriestessKikyo1]

I grew gailan this year, and I found it to be delicious and fast growing, much faster than regular broccoli. I've already harvested my gailan for the fall and my regular broccoli hasn't even made heads yet. Definitely don't give up!

[@peacefulgarden]

I agree for the tomatoes. Late ripening, diluted flavour, extremely frustrating. I know we had a lot of rain here in Montréal (Canada) which doesn't help. A tip I've heard is to make sure to pick them after several days without watering. Apparently it helps to concentrate the flavour. Cheers!

[@karenbrowning3397]

Everybody needs a Lily in their lives.😻😻. Most of my veggies either bolted, were slugged, black flied or cabbage white catterpillard this year. Tomatoes have taken for ever to ripen. My first year growing them so can't really compare the taste

[@cherienaera3751]

Super exciting here in n.z as the roses start to bloom but who knows how the vegetables will fare? Been a couple of crappy seasons for our veges so fingers crossed for this year. Cuddles with lili were Adorable xx

[@lucrom1097]

Fantastisch Good work Jessie you the best te moostiun te planting te oogsten thans te video Top week 🌺🤗👍✔️🌳🍁⛅🍅🌿🧤☘️🌱

[@lorainemcguire5795]

Very odd to year for growing I've had plenty of white fly and taking the small wins and we're all be making our lists for next year 🥂

[@elizabethjames1053]

I found a lot of the tomatoes this year even though they're all grown in tunnel g /house have been waterey for want of a better word juicey 😂 but not got that wow about them , had to have a bib on for the black trefel so so juicy, all in all great harvest down to my last now but I plant early 👍

[@lobodo988]

I planted ONE zucchini this year to prevent any avalanche, and the poor thing was beset with some weird fungus, some hard white mushroom thing. Total loss. My best plant this year was my melons. I’ve decided my favorite garden item is now sun-warmed melon, cut into cubes. Sorry green beans and tomatoes!

[@marilynstanbury5098]

The light levels and lack of sun affect the sugar levels in the tomatoes, the same as strawberries. Your tomatoes look fantastic, I’ve only had a few, they are growing and fruiting now! I’ve gardened for years, same place, just realised I don’t get enough sun, especially on my greenhouse, no sun after end August! The Tokyo turnips are the best as far as I’m concerned. This video is interesting and I love watching them, you and your mum feel like my friends. Who does Lil belong too, she’s gorgeous. Thanks

[@MrKRYLAR]

I grew a few wild boar farms tomatoes this year, Haley's purple comet was very nice despite the weather. Barry's crazy cherry was very watery, hoping for more sun next year! all of my tomatoes ripened to a much paler colour than they should have been orange not red.

[@utility44]

My Sungold are quite sharp this year but masses of them, grown in a hanging basket in the greenhouse.

[@LucRom-kz5uw]

Fantastisch Good work jessie you the best te moostuin te planting te groente te oogsten the oktober thans te video Top Time Good week 🙏🌤🍁🌿🍅🥦☘️🌱☕️🌶❤🍆🐈🌳

[@kevinstonebanks8552]

It was funny seeing you smile at the tomatoes 🍅, i know you haven't got much of a choice but clubroot resistance seeds are the answer, clubroot will not go away it will spread everywhere, on your hands,tools,pots, etc its a nightmare Thanks!

[@allisontison40]

I was reading about club root, it appears to me that a large amount of lime would be very helpful, I’d also cover that area with clear plastic to “heat up” the soil, and not plant any brassicas there ever. Maybe you shouldn’t plant any brassica transplants/ seedlings unless you start them from seeds. The disease spreads from spores from infected soil, plants and tools. Spraying your tools with alcohol is a good idea too.

[@ameliagfawkes512]

"Tomatoes not as sweet." Not really a surprise when they're blocking out the sun.

[@kazjohns]

Ditto on the tomato tasting. Grown Alice’s Dream, Sart Roloise etc. Whilst the taste was nice, none was out of this world nice and I couldn’t have told the two apart tbh. 🎉. Rebel Starfighter, 😂Black Moon and Black Strawberry have saved the day for me. Courgette also did nothing until this month. Putting all my optimism into next year🤞🏻 Fingers tightly crossed you get your remaining toms and peppers to ripen.

[@nitelite78]

You did better than me on the turnips. I didn't even have any creatures digging mine out and mine have completely failed to grow. With the terrible grey and rainy weather I think I needed to have sown 2 or 3 weeks earlier. I think I'm with you on the tomato flavour. My sungold and honeycomb have been great as they are on a sunny south facing patio but my Cherokee Purple aren't as sweet as last year.

[@cherylbiden3126]

Agree re Tom's and everything this year too wet n cold at night with no sun. Blighted Tom's, those that partly developed ripening indoors, had 6 courgettes the size of my index finger, 1 pumpkin, no beans, my lemon drops have only just setting fruit and may not even turn shame as the plants are ladended. Triple pants and bogies year all round. 😵‍💫😵🥴 My worst in 15 years of having an allotment. Now just need to tidy the car crash and start again next year. All I need is the gremlins to jump into the water butt's and cause more chaos. 😂😂 Onwards and upwards folks. 😊

[@ion_trooperclive6751]

Yes Jess about the tomatoes ,mine seamed a bit bland not up to usual sweetness .

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

🐝thanks for the great video🌻

[@labcat647]

I ordered Alyce’s Dream tomato seeds right after you first mentioned it in a video earlier this summer. I got the seeds and planted them about a week later… so a much later start than you. I feel guilty that I’ve been harvesting and enjoying them since early September and expect to harvest well into November. Delicious!.. though I’m getting tired of tomatoes. I’ve also had baskets and baskets of peppers and aubergines. Shows you the difference that 15 degrees of latitude south and an ocean apart has. That said, I’ll take your weather any day. The brutal heat, humidity, and drought were life threatening this summer… lol! the grass is always greener somewhere else 😊.

[@stevendowden2579]

lovely video jessie

[@Canna1d]

Our tomatoes in the greenhouse aren't ripening, the ones outside are doing fine - same varieties! I heard a farmer say he isn't tanning as much this year even though he's outside all day as normal. Strange times.

[@Sylvie_M]

FYI, swinging was okay, sound was okay. LOL My best tasting tomatoes this year were Black Krim and Black Cherry. Yum! Maybe just your UK climate this year affected flavours? I grow the Hakurai (?) turnip but find them susceptible to flea beetle and wireworm. The flavour and texture is wonderful! They are also great for succession sowing since they germinate and grow so easily and quickly.

[@annlockey8552]

A few chery tomatoes have been turning but the beef stakes and roma are green as ever im tempted to just make chutney and fried green tomates. Love your allotment 😊😊

[@lancpudn]

Hello Jessie, the mild Japanese shishito chillies have done marvellous this year & I got lots of ripe red ones. The only tomato that tasted great out of the different varieties I grew this year was Black Russian, the best tasting huge tomatoes I've grown in ages. Thanks for the video.

[@paulinemorris5186]

definitely noticed a lack of taste this year, plus my cabbages although they looked ok they tasted really bitter and we were unable to eat them, don't know why. hopefully next year will be better, lets face it it can't get much worse.

[@janetpurdie9464]

I agree about the tomatoes. Mine are all outside and now utterly blighted. Sungold normally does really well here (Marlow), but this year the taste has been much less sweet, and some of the bigger ones like Marmande haven't ripened at all. Sad times!

[@Andyiow]

I didn’t know about registering my chickens, so thank you for informing me, haven’t heard any info about it, I keep 3 chickens just for the eggs, but only Ruby is laying!! Snowdrop and Vanessa seem to have given up.

[@mandytaylor1008]

Also the black cherry was still tasty

[@cew9837]

Freckles is lettuce.. castelfranco I think is the chicory. Medwyn's seems to have quite a few clubroot resistant..might be worth a try. My runners are not drying so not sure half a row still growing..mmm ... your toms look good...mine are v boring...

[@crocketp]

I have freckles lettuce. It’s so yummy

[@MaxMoloko]

My Alice's Dreams are ripening in the house. My plants went out on the pateo in mid june in middle of Sweden, and I picked them green/black last week. I think yours might ripen at home too, but you have a few more weeks outside than I have. We are below 0 at night now so no more tomatoes outside.

[@tamararoberts9307]

I've also noticed our tomatoes aren't as sweet this year . Hmmm

[@sharlahill8808]

Yes toms are not wonderful this year here in Oregon USA in fact nothing has done well really. Slow start stalled growth small yield bland flavor and I blame climate change with all the up and down temps. Happy birthday to your Mum!

[@karenmackley9418]

The first Sungolds to ripen in the mini hot spell we had were delicious. However those that have ripened since are lacking in flavour and quite acidic😥

[@tamararoberts9307]

Same here in Indiana

[@jimspendley1166]

Hello Jessie talking about taste do think it could be that we are using peat free compost because I found that my runner beans also needed a bit more flavour as well, Jim.

[@lynetteharris961]

I tried to register but the system is down. Can email the pdf though. Lilly super cute and cuddly this week ❤

[@mandytaylor1008]

They are sharp or bland our toms. The best ones were Black Russian this year

[@kellyhenry4187]

I'm in the US but i feel that everything this year was just off, i hate to make the comparison, but it felt like the tomatoes had a Covid year. Maybe they needed a break. My garden suffered at my hands due to the massive cicada invasion, but this was my worst year gardening in 24 years.

[@janegarrud9527]

My poor little granddaughter picked a really red tomato from the tray ripening on the windowsill and took a bite- you should have seen the face she pulled 😂 then tomato was returned to me in her hand!! Very bitter and tasteless at the same time! I’m freezing all mine whole as they ripen then I’ll make a big batch of sauce. Very disappointing year 🍅 🤨

[@simonbattle6689]

My tomatoes have been very bland also 😢 but yours look fab. Chillies very hot though, even Cayennes, but I haven’t had much luck getting ripe chillies from ultra hot chinense varieties (Jamaican hot, orange habanero, scotch bonnet). They are growing well but the heat and light is fading fast. Currently in Greece and you would be very envious like me of the sun and heat for ripening chillies and squashes at this time of year.

[@Stacysgarden24]

If it's not hot enough, bland tomatoes is what we get.

[@williampaulfearnhead5534]

The beef tomatoes took ages to get going but my cherry toms were superb I've grown the same varieties each year and they fail to disappoint me both reds each slightly different but sweet and abundant they are SUN CHERRY and CHERRYBABY and they are from plants of distinction would highly recommend .I am surprised you've only just discovered WEBBS WONDERFUL it's been around since 1890 iceberg was to be the alternative and better variety to WEBBS but there's definitely a resurgence to old varieties of veg happening in the allotment world mainly cos of their flavour point of view

[@chriseverest4380]

Girly passports, Lilycuddles and a whopping goatbag😂❤

[@myrustygarden]

That clubroot sounds brutal, do you use lime in the beds I have seen others do that but don’t know how much it actually controls it. Yes my zinnias are just coming out now too except the dwarf ones they were early. After having such a challenging year you are certainly getting some superb harvests. 11:48 yikes winter bobble hat. I watched a gentleman called Dipak in London that crushes his coriander seed then sows them. Well almost time for the bubble wrap party in the greenhouse. Can you do water cuttings for the agreti? I wrapped my tomatoes in newspaper and they all ripened nicely. You just have to check them every few days. Glad mom had a great birthday 🎂, Ali 🌞🥶🇨🇦

[@Whistlewalk]

Just to add to the info, I'm gardening on the other side of the planet - southern Vancouver Island - and we are having the same issue with the tomatoes, very late (Sept) and flat flavoured. And also I've noticed that it's the fruiting veggies that are not moving along as per usual: peppers, pumpkins, egg plant, etc. And all my gardening friends, from the southern part of British Colunbia to the far north of the province have been reporting the same issues. It's the fruits that have failed or are very late. Greens have been abundant. Interesting to hear you are experiencing a similar issue. You are on the other side of the planet. I do wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the planet is beginning to pulling away from the sun (we are on an eliptical orbit afterall) and its changing the quality and strength of the light. If anyone has any clear info on that I would like to know, because if it's true, it's going to start changing the way we garden. Just sayin'.

[@suebradford890]

OMG! Jessie what was that hideous caterpillar?? Sorry but they're my phobia - I keep thinking when I see one, hurry up and be a moth or butterfly! I actually have to back away from my laptop screen such is my revulsion😬🐛🦋 lol

[@bettypierce-g7i]

See one of your garden beds has some decoration on it. until it moves oh my word bet it could leave a hurting on you. we have one here in the US but it doesn't have all those colors in other than that they look the same and people say really hurt if you touch those spines on them. don't like creepy crawly things and hate snakes.

[@Zoeybeau_1]

My sungold were bland, not being a tomato lover I was almost poisoned they were that nasty, and yet the kids said they were okay, nothing special. I felt there wasn't anything nice about them. My beans and peas did well, my courgettes were a no show. Brassicas got a fit of the munchies by the cabbage whites never mind the netting I had on them. It was like it wasn't there. Brassicas will go undercover next year. But I put in perennial veg this year.

[@jayneeburks8482]

Lilly lovin, the best. 😁💗

[@markhildred2456]

I only grow 6 varieties of tomato, apart from Robeson ( my fave for carpaccio) , they were all very low on yield and slow to ripen ( especially crokini in the greenhouse I blame June mainly). I made a bunch of passata yesterday and even that was mediocre taste. Also my minnesota midget melons were meh flavour , had 4 ripen , but they actually went in the compost.

[@hazeljohnstone-c8x]

just a thought...maybe our taste buds have been altered through C...D, rather than the crops tasting different...Mmm

[@brianloneske6183]

Courgettes in spring???🤔

[@mandytaylor1008]

Hi Jess do you not save your own coriander seeds? I bet if you have some in a jar they would grow.

[@gvolk11]

Jessie, what did you use this year with the tomatoes that you haven’t in the past? The self watering pots? Just suggesting…

[@ritahobbs5256]

I inadvertently cancelled my direct debit…thinking it something else… I’ve had such problems reinstating my Patreon account, sorry Jesse… ❤

[@murielbailiwick2978]

A truly dreadful year…. My tomatoes also not particularly wonderful. Aubergines - merrily flowered but no fruit. Runner beans and French beans did just fine. As indeed my chard and cavolo Nero. Carrots never germinated. Scorzonera grew but tasteless. Sigh. Oh well, there’s always next year

[@karens7232]

Yes, fewer tomatoes that didn't mature as fast - some are still dark green. Those that finally did rioen are mealy & poor tasting.

[@deepayne1930]

Jessie, I hope you see this (as I have not discovered another way to contact you). When can I expect to see these Videos on Monday please?

[@kimberlyearly8918]

She always posts on Tuesday.

[@cew9837]

Mondays are for pppatreon subscribers I think.

[@raydel5732]

Why purchase two packets of coriander? When one packet has enough seeds for 10 years. Ray Delbury Sussex county NJ USA

[@krafterpc]

Hi ladies, Love ur vids. Where do u get the black netting? 😊

[@jessievanswaaij2971]

Jess,question; you had 4 chickens,one died , you got one lonenly new naked leggy lady and now you have 5? What happened?lots of love from Belgium

[@jonquilhawthorne3257]

No sunshine, no flavour on the tomato front. Not a great harvest either. I,m glad I've been growing a few years or I would not want another like it! 😮

[@patgoodchild8045]

No great flavour from my toms either. Obviously due to the lack of sunshine for sure.

[@TimosGarden]

have you ever tried Calciumcyanamid to kill off the klubroot in the soil? It kills all the good bacteria as well but i believe it may work... perhaps could get rid of the onion whiterot that way🤔

[@krafterpc]

Yo... I'm in zone 8a. Texas. Tomatoes were awful tasting. Never really produced much. Others here said the same. Did have weird crops. Plenty of figs 😋 they dropped all leaves and then leafed out all over again??? Next, plum tree produced alot. Dropped all leaves and then leafed out with blossoms on 2 branches???? Any ideas as to why their seasons are mixed up?🤔

[@mandytaylor1008]

Jess take some antihistamines

[@ritahobbs5256]

My fall back guaranteed tomatoes are moneymaker & gardener’s delight… same… poor taste.. grew other new varieties to me eg brads atomic … horrible!

[@Sarah-over-here]

My tomatoes have been prolific, but have stayed green FOREVER and really not up to their usual standard taste-wise when they are finally ripe. Peppers are taking their time too. It's been a weird growing year this year! 🪴