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Gardening

NRaleighLiberal

(60,513 posts) Thu Jul 25, 2013, 09:30 PM Jul 2013

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Always feels good once we've canned some tomatoes and tomato sauce.... [View all]

Though it's been a really rough summer (lots of disease, spotty fruit set), we are now the proud parents of 7 quarts of canned tomatoes and 4 quarts of canned roasted tomato sauce.

Doesn't sound (or look!) like much, but it takes nearly 30 lbs of tomatoes to make that size canning run, and probably even more for the sauce - it is as valuable as gold, kinda!

Anyone else in the preserving state of the season?

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Always feels good once we've canned some tomatoes and tomato sauce.... [View all] NRaleighLiberal Jul 2013 OP

Bless your heart. Our tomatoes are looking good but had to water this afternoon. Hoping for 24 Purveyor Jul 2013 #1

Hell, I'm still waiting for ours to ripen... opiate69 Jul 2013 #2

Tomatoes... ColumbusLib Jul 2013 #3

Getting close. MuseRider Jul 2013 #4

amazing, isn't it - using home canned tomatoes over winter is such a treat! NRaleighLiberal Jul 2013 #5

Absolutely. MuseRider Jul 2013 #7

Ours are just starting to ripen. Lugnut Jul 2013 #6

Looks like a bad year for tomatoes here. femmocrat Jul 2013 #8

I'm always in a "preserving state." Le Taz Hot Jul 2013 #9

whoa - great stuff! We have far less...but it includes NRaleighLiberal Jul 2013 #10

Wow Andy823 Jul 2013 #11

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