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| 27/Sep/2009 |
Earlier in the year I bought a 'mexican garden' seed kit from the Woolworths closing down sale. I never managed to get the oregano to germinate but I have several tomato and chilli plants. Most of the chillies and tomatoes are still green and unripe but we have had 5 small red tomatoes (not enough for a pizza sauce) and one red chilli so far.
I finely chopped one of the chillies and sprinkled it onto one of tonights pizzas. The other toppings were: red pesto, salmon, red onion and cheese. It was a very tasty pizza.
The chillies were fairly strong when I tasted one on its own, but there was a slightly unripe or possibly just a raw flavour. By the time they had cooked on the pizza they were fine.
There are many more green chillies on the plant so hopefully we will have a good supply for the autumn.
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Mike wrote at 2010-03-30 18:26:
Hi Emma,
According to the packet I had, they are Moneymaker tomatoes. I put most of the tomatoes outside and by autumn only half of them had ripened fully. The rest were still green. I was told recently that that's quite a common problem with moneymaker, not ripening before the weather gets too cold. They should be ok indoors or in a greenhouse.
I managed to ripen some of the green ones by putting them in the dark with a couple of red tomatoes mixed in with them. The rest I used to make a green tomato chutney.
Mike.
Emma Hazlewood wrote at 2010-03-30 14:10: