Hello Cuties! Have you ever seen so many tomatoes in one picking?! We have been canning tomatoes since yesterday when Marsha(Nae) and Richard picked over 500 ! He just said tomorrow they need picking again! They are getting smaller so they should be ending soon.
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255054Amazing Toogie. My tomatoes are still green. I was real late with planting this year. My hat off to you. I can not imagine processing all these tomatoes. My son brought me 2 flats of blackberry which I turned into 20 jars of jam. The Airconditioner ran at full power since it was 103 F outside. How long did you work on processing these beauties? Hopefully you can get some rest. 😊
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by toogie
29 Jun 2022
We worked yesterday and today we finished. One table was completely cleaned off and the other had just a few left.Richards mom came and picked up two buckets to put up for herself. We can here at home in the ac, but at Nae's we prepare in the pool house and ac is on but they cook them/process them in the screened in room that is between the pool house and the in ground pool. They have a propane burner out there and it keeps from heating up the houses. Nae did the major canning this year and I put up very little for us. We only helped them with some of the corn and these tomatoes.
109774Yummm!!! I know it is a lot of work, but the filled jars will look pretty, and the sauce and other canned tomatoes will taste so good. I'm glad your family and friends are getting good production from their gardens. This weather pattern is causing havoc for so many farmers.
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by toogie
29 Jun 2022
You are so right about the weather. I only put up 7 qts of corn this year as we didn’t make a garden and what I got my nephew sent. I put up 23 jars of tomatoes for myself yesterday. No pickles, jellies this year because I still have plenty. Yeah, Nae told Richard it was all fun while he was on the tractor but this picking and canning so much at once isn’t fun. I told her she would forget the hurt feet and back this winter when she eats it.
169064Oh, Toogie, I see many wonderful meals and salsa ahead for you!! How wonderful!! Hugs, Laura
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by toogie
29 Jun 2022
These are mostly for my daughter and their grown kids but I did get enough for 23 jars for myself. Love the taste of homegrown tomatoes!
96283WOW WOW WOW! What a gorgeous selection of Tomatoes. As Roberta says ours at the moment are exorbitant prices. A lettuce is over $10.00 Australian. We've got massive hike prices on all our fruit and vegetables, due to unseasonable weather, freight charges. Also hitting vegetable prices has been the price of fertiliser, again pushed up by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Love Chris
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by toogie
29 Jun 2022
You are right about prices. The seeds are expensive, fertilizer, tractor fuel and you’re taking a chance that is makes.
234501They are a beauty. If there is some left over please send them to Melbourne (AU), where at the moment tomatoes are on sale for $10.00 @ kilo!!!
Hugs Roberta
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by toogie
29 Jun 2022
Oh my! I have been eating bacon and tomatoes sandwiches on toasted bread, so good! Nothing as good as a home grown tomato.
9009Oh my goodness! I could take a couple off your hands! Love me some fresh tomatoes! Now I am wanting a tomato sandwich! Thats a lot of canning. Is that from your garden?
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by toogie
29 Jun 2022
No, we weren’t able to make a garden this year. We got too much rain at the time he needed to plow and then when it did dry enough, we’d get more rain. This is my daughter and son-in-law’s first garden. They did really well. They’ve canned 52 qt bags of corn and 9 gallon bags of corn on the cob. Seventy something quarts of peas, just 30 qts pickles, 70 something pints of Salsa, 25 quarts of tomatoes. Plus we’re canning about 45 pints of Salsa for their 5 kids. They’ve been really blessed because a lot of gardens haven’t done as well this year. Peas and Okra are still coming in so more canning head.
18140Gosh Toogie seeing the red colour and shapes I thought you were quilting. No not quilting but tomatoes! Canning is a thing you do your side of the Atlantic, we freeze stuff here. Don’t think I have seen so many home grown toms before. They look yummy
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by toogie
29 Jun 2022
They had 124 plants and they all did really well. I guess the reason we put in jars is because of hurricanes when our electricity goes out for days/weeks plus hubby & Richard said in old days there were no freezers.
by asterixsew
29 Jun 2022
ah interesting fact and as we dont have hurricanes and the weather you do I can see the reason for canning
by graceandham
29 Jun 2022
If anyone decides to make a quilt for Toogie, it should like the picture above! Wow! That's a lot of soup and stewed tomatores.
by toogie
29 Jun 2022
Funny you should say something like that because I came home to watch youtube quilting and what pops up? A quilt with canning jars! However, it wasn't jars of vegetables or fruit, it was jars of scraps!-lol from the Quilting Compound.
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