How are Things in the Tomato Patch?

[ducks4you]

No matter. I just want a lot of tomatoes, and who doesn't love the big, sweet ones?

 

[ducks4you]

Saturday, I stewed and canned 7 quarts, and 1/2 pint's worth. ALL were Romas, and there are masses of green and turning ones in the patch. :bun
Also, one of my heirloom's that I planted from seed has great big, green and wrinkled top fruit on it. I'll definitely save THOSE seeds.

 

[hoodat]

I'm just pulling the last of my tomato plants. That will be it for tomatos till next Spring. I had a great season. Both my Purple Cherokee and Mortgage Lifters were huge and plenty of them. I've been keeping all my neighbors supplied. Time for the Fall planting.

 

[vfem]

My tomatoes were tricky this year, but my big producers were an unknown variety, italian market tomatoes and chocolate cherry tomatoes. I have about 4 plants left with ripening tomatoes still, I've already ripped out 3 plants yesterday and the rest are coming out today.

Then in goes more cabbage and broccoli... and maybe carrots since I ended up with a free pack in the mail.

p.s. - Sooooooooooooooo buying the chocolate cherry next year. I couldn't get enough. We snacked, we made salads, we put it right in our chicken salad and I made sun dried tomatoes out of them for winter since the flavor was so intense.

 

[sparkles2307]

I'm getting ginormous Purple Cherokees, and Cuor di Bue. I love those things, nothing beats a big, fat Italian OxHeart. I've canned 14qt now, but had 4 not seal so we've eaten a lot of chili I have tons more coming, hopefully a few more jars of Striped Romans (so far only 3 jars). Some weird yellow tomato was rearing its head...it tasted amazing, but it was one skinny plant with 2 fruits in the middle of my Hillbilly Potato Leaf and Strpied Romans.

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

YUM! I been slicing up all mine for sandwiches . Some are going into my baked macaroni and cheese tomorrow

 

[ducks4you]

Do you prefer canning them immediately after deskinning them, or do you prefer stewing them for a few hours, then canning?
I only ask because I skinned mine Saturday, and what with my laundry list of jobs, they cooked in my crockpots on Warm for about 5 hours--definitely stewed, but not burnt. It seemed like it condensed them.
Usually, I dedicate the morning or afternoon, or afternoon/evening to my canning--day just got away from me.

 

[sparkles2307]

Do you prefer canning them immediately after deskinning them, or do you prefer stewing them for a few hours, then canning?
I only ask because I skinned mine Saturday, and what with my laundry list of jobs, they cooked in my crockpots on Warm for about 5 hours--definitely stewed, but not burnt. It seemed like it condensed them.
Usually, I dedicate the morning or afternoon, or afternoon/evening to my canning--day just got away from me.

My mom taught me to can immediately after, but stewing cant hurt.

 

[hiker125]

We got super hot really early, (100+ heat index) so my "early girl" stank. We have finally moderated a bit (into the mid-90s) so I now have lots of green tomatoes.

Something is attacking the early girl- cucumber beetle, maybe? Drills a perfectly round hole in the fruit.

My Brandwine STINKS. I have like two pitiful little things on the vine. The Cherokee Purple has a couple HUGE maters, but haven't been able to harvest one yet.

My hybrid ROMAs look great.

 

[ducks4you]

My hybrid ROMAs look great.

Can 'em.