A impertinent picked bowl of tomatoes from the garden
It is here . Tomato season has come at the farm and like every year – it becomes a insane rush to clean , feed , make and store everything we can with the magical red yield .
It always astound me how quickly we go from impatiently waiting for that first taste from those ripening dark-green globes to “ what the $ % & ! are we going to do with all of these tomatoes ? ! ” 🙂
A fresh picked bowl of tomatoes from the garden
Freshly canned salsa made on Saturday
Over the course of the next few weeks – we will blame anywhere from 25 to 50 British pound a day from the garden – and almost every Nox , we will be urine bathing or pressing canning a batch of home - made salsa , ketchup , alimentary paste sauce , tomato juice , pizza sauce and more . ( you may witness some of our favorite tomato based recipes below )
I have to admit – by the last of it all – we are normally quick for it to be over . But you just ca n’t shell heading into the pantry during the dusk , wintertime and early spring to pull out a jounce of tinned garden good .
Freshly canned salsa made on Saturday
The Celebrity Tomato – our darling !
This year ’s harvest was push back a workweek or two more than normal by the cooler and wetter weather we have experienced here in Ohio . But judging by the first few picking – the harvest should be flop up there with the last few years .
Although we always try a new kind or two every year – our favorite love apple continues to be the Celebrity – it really is the ultimate love apple in so many ways . It not only has that “ perfect ” tomato shape – but is a wakeless manufacturer on the vine – slice beautiful for sandwich – and works well for salsa , juice , or any of our sauce .
The Celebrity Tomato – our favorite!
There is nothing like the taste of fresh tomato juice from the garden
It also blends well with our La Roma tomatoes – the other workhorse variety we establish each twelvemonth . The Roma ’s meaty substance make it a keen alternative when it comes to thickening up our alimentary paste and pizza sauce .
We tend to expend the first few harvests of our tomato for succus and salsa – because they are commonly more plump early in the season . We then make our alimentary paste sauce , pizza sauce and ketchup with the love apple harvested later – as they tend to be a little thicker from the late summer heat .
There is nothing like the taste of fresh tomato juice from the garden
you could find many of our love apple based recipes on the blog under the canning and Friday Recipe tab key … but here are some of our deary :
PICANTE SALSA – HOW TO MAKE AND CAN
red-hot AND SPICY TOMATO JUICE – MAKING YOUR OWN V-8 JUICE
GARDEN impertinent PASTA SAUCE RECIPE
HOME MADE TOMATO SOUP
HOME MADE KETCHUP – HOT AND SPICY
Happy Gardening ,
Jim and Mary
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