To date, we’ve harvested nineteen tomatoes from our indoor plants.
The first two we cut open were mealy and watery, but the others have all been great. We’ve been astonished by how large they’ve grown – here’s the biggest one of all…
It had sweet, pale flesh. It obviously didn’t ripen as well as a tomato grown outdoors would have, but it wasn’t mushy in the middle and was great eating raw…
All the subsequent ones have been delicious too – we haven’t had another mealy tomato after the initial two. Here are the ones we ate tonight at dinner…
Hopefully as the weather warms up we’ll get improved ripening, but if not, we might look at getting some lights for next season. We’ll keep you posted!
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Yumm, what are you feeding them to get that big? My tomato plants are only about 18″ tall, and I’ve pulled out dozens of doggie seeded ones from the lawn. My strawberries are just starting to come on-line, we just need some warmer weather.
Becca, Pete’s been feeding them a mixture of blood and bone, and worm juice from our worm farm. Seems to be working so far!
I’ve just been out watering my meagre tomato efforts. This is the last chance for them. If I’m not successful this year I’ll give up on tomatoes and put in zucchini – the kids will hate me!
Amanda, there are a bunch of self-sown seedlings in the garden – it will be interesting to see what they do this year…
Ha! We just ate the very last of our tumbling tomatoes which were sat ripening off on the windowsill. November 6th and they are all gone now :( Winter is a-coming in, never mind, time to think of crumpets with lashings of melted butter and ginger cake…. now…. where was that recipe ;) xxxx
Jo, one of the advantages of having them indoors is that we’ve been able to let them ripen on the vine. I think it makes up a tiny bit for not having direct sunlight…
Wow, they’re huge! What variety are they, Celia?
It’s amazing the differences that come with a change in growing environment.
Chris, the one in the photo is an Apollo, but we’ve also been growing Grosse Lisse. The latter have split a bit, but the Apollos have been really good!
Wholey moley Celia that is one giant tomato! They look delicious. I bet they’d make wonderfully tasty bruschetta.
Claire, I know, isn’t it amazing! I still can’t believe we grew such a big one! They would make a gorgeous bruschetta, but we’ve just been eating them at dinner, raw and unadorned…
Delicious! I love a good fresh tomato, I can smell them from here… Mmmmm… A splash olive oil, balsamic, perhaps some basil and maybe bocconcini or goats feta… Yum, wish I had me a lovely garden like yours. Beautiful job, may the rest of your tomato season be a yummy one at that.
Anna, these were grown indoors, not in the garden! :) The aroma is amazing, particularly in the leaves and stems…
Oh my. Those red babies look glistening with health. I would feel rather chuffed if I were holding those Celia. I wish I could smell them.
Mariana, I wish you could smell them too, they’re quite amazing! We’re really chuffed, thank you.. :)
lovely…makes my mouth water.. :o)
Thanks Caroline! It’s nice that the experiment worked out! :)
I think you have done very well for indoor tomatoes. Especially if you haven’t used any light so far! Are there still a lot of green ones coming along?
The size of your tomatoes is amazing- and they look absolutely delicious!
Enjoy- enjoy- enjoy!
So glad you found a way around the blight and bugs!
Heidi, still some more green ones growing, although no more flowers, so we probably won’t get any more new fruit now. The ones coming along are a bit smaller – it’s almost as if the big ones grew first, and now it’s the tail-end…
Awesome! The photo of the largest one in your hand is amazing!
Next year PHil and I promised ourselves to try and get our garden in shape. We shall see…
I look forward to your future reports on the garden, as Summer approaches for you
Sally, and I have relatively big hands! I’d love to see what you and Phil come up with in the garden!
You did a great job growing those inside, now didn’t you have potatoes growing in coffee sacks or am I confusing myself? Who was that?. i really need to know how those are doing!! c
Yep, that was us! The potatoes are growing well, and they’re almost ready to be hilled up! I’ll take some photos when I get a chance, Celi!
Happy tomatoes indeed Celia!
My pots are refusing to grow at the moment despite the warm weather and loads of love I’m throwing at them.
Brydie, pot plants are funny like that – ours grow like mad and then seem to stagnate. I hope yours come around soon!
seeing home grown produce is so uplifting regardless of whether it’s my own or someone else’s..thanks for sharing the photos of your beautiful tomatoes celia..they have made my day..
Thanks Jane, that’s a lovely thing to say! I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Gorgeous looking tomatoes Celia and a most interesting experiment. We have garden toms but I’d love to experiment with these, we have a room with a north facing glass wall, hmmm. I’ll be back to trawl your archives.
Rose, our verandah is northfacing as well. It sounds like your room would let in a lot more light than our windows do! We’re also growing capsicums in there, and they seem to be doing quite well…
Your tomatoes look perfect. How clever to have grown them indoors – I didn’t know you could do that.
Charlie, we didn’t know either! We’re flying by the seat of our pants a bit here, but it has worked out quite well! :)
What a good start to the tomato season, they can only get even better. We have some tomatoes in pots and the small green fruit have suddenly appeared with the warmer weather. I have discovered a forest of tomato seedlings in the spot where the compost bin was moved from. They will probably do better than any others!
Christine, I hope the weather figures itself out soon. It’s been really hot last couple of days, and now it’s thunderstorming again! I reckon self-sown seedlings are always more hardy than the ones we fuss about and plant.. :)
They look sumptuous :)
Thanks Cindy! :)
I still have to visit the nursery for tomatoes! Yours look great. PS, I have planted my beans and I have little leaves, thank you Celia for the prompting :)
Still lots of time for tomatoes, Tandy, summer hasn’t even officially started yet! Look forward to seeing your beans, and this time thank you for the prompt, as we have to get some more into the ground! :)
Job well done on your tomatoes Celia – always nicer eaten what you have grown yourself.
:-) Mandy
Thanks Mandy! It is exciting to eat proper homegrown toms! :)