On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:37:37 +1000, "Ozgirl"
> wrote:

>Are these tomatoes that haven't ripened yet or the American type ripe green
>tomato?

Unripe.

My hubby is a weeding demon - with strange ideas of what's suitable
for flower beds... these tomato plants didn't exist until we went to
Canada in mid-July; then either the birds or the tortoise gifted them
to us, and they were setting fruit by the time we got back a month
later. I am extremely impressed that three completely untended plants
gave me such huge volumes of tomatoes - I have 3 or 4 Kg perfect ones
that are being hopeful on the windowsill - 2 have started to turn
ripe; another 1Kg are now chutney - and there's about another Kg of
ones that are ridiculously unripe or marked in some way that I'm using
for cooking. Had some for supper, actually, with confit de canard on a
bed of kale, garnished by fried toms - I would have paid good money
for it

Nicky.