End of Toms season?

[daginge]

Hi ABers
This is the first year we've had any success at all, and despite cropping a fair few fruits we still have lots of green fruit on our Tom vines,they no longer appear to be ripening and are starting to split. Should I call it a day and compost the lot or is there still hope if I pick and window sill whats left?
Similarly with the Chillis, only 2 fruits on each but still lots of flowers on the 2 remaining plants, Scoch Bonnet and Jalapeno. I could take the 2 Chilli plants to work and put them in the office but is it worth it at thistime of the year?
TIA
Daginge

[Essell]

Pick the tomatoes and leave to ripen in a sheltered place. You can hang the truss if you cut it off the stem.

[paddywak]

There's no need to compost the green toms try this
http://www.bbcgoodfoo.../green-tomato-chutney
Trish often uses the BiL's excess for chutney to a recipe virtually identical to this.

[daginge]

Nice one PW not got enough for that though LOL. Only about 30 small fruits, gardener's delight or some such eat out of the hand variety!!

[mazie]

I had a really bad year with the Toms. As paddywak says make Green tomato chutney. I've made loads of it. It keeps for up to a year

[factor-fiction]

Oh, I looked in here thinking it was sporting thread reporting the injury of maybe Tom Cleverley

[daginge]

Ha Ha! Sorry Factor 30, slightly more sedate a pastime than Association Football, AKA The Beautiful Game!