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Talkback: Autumn on the allotment

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Yum, your recipe makes me feel hungry and I have been eating a half a pound of tomatoes a day for the last three weeks!
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  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Lovely blog. Lovely blogger. Delicious soup. Well done, Lila!
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Congratulations on the new blog Lila! How exciting!

    I can relate to that feeling of "having enough". It's one of those things that comes naturally when in the garden. As seasons change you realise certain things have to go and the clear out begins, only to be replaced with the new.

    I don't think I've ever seen a passata machine? I think I will have to investigate it now.

    Ryan (Ryan's Garden)
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Must try that recipe!
    Excellent blog btw! just made our own 'tinned tomato' type recipe,using cider vinegar,water and sugar. Taste lovely but boiling vinegar does stink out the kitchen!
    Off to google Passata machines!
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    mkes me happy oits autumn...now where would one find a passata machine
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Passata sounds great --- tnx for mentioning it, and for the tomato soup recipe!
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    I run a soup kitchen once a month so think I'll try the tomato soup recipe this time it sounds great.
    Also on a different subject, can anyone tell me why some of my cosmos plants have come up 'blind'? Lots of growth but no flowers at all.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    You can buy passata machines from Seeds of Italy (based in Harrow)they are brilliant and so easy to use. I am in the middle of making passata with the tomato glut and also use the lovely passata bottles they sell.

    Lovely blog Lila, thanks.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Passata sounds brilliant, but if you don't have the time, just pop the tomatoes in the freezer whole and then remove and defrost to put into receipes. I add to the bag every day.You can remove the skin when they have defrosted a little (just like blanching them really. I make lots of sauces and soups.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Sounds good Jan.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Has anyone got any idea what I can do with tomotoes that haven't ripened yet. Being new to gardening I think I may have planted them a little later than I should have. I fear they are going to go to waste given the lack of sunshine at this time of year.

    Any advice would be more than welcome.
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