the little wild kingdom

[flowerbug]

picked tomatoes today, will be busy canning some of them today and tonight...

 

[flowerbug]

and tomorrow morning...

they are very sweet this year, not much rain and a lot of sunshine and plenty of leaves.

 

[flowerbug]

tomatoes all finished for now. 32 quarts plus a pint of left-over chunks that will be used in some sloppy joes later.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

tomatoes all finished for now. 32 quarts

That's fantastic!

 

[Mini Horses]

Great job! That's a lot of good eating. Love having fresh tomatoes canned for winter.

 

[flowerbug]

Great job! That's a lot of good eating. Love having fresh tomatoes canned for winter.

same here! main reason i garden is to have good tomatoes canned in glass.

 

[flowerbug]

getting the rest of the tomatoes i picked the other day canned. skinned, cored and chunked another 16-18 quarts which i'll get put into jars and sealed after i rest for a bit.

beautiful weather, i have plenty of things to do outside when i can get out there.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Sounds like you're having a really good tomato harvest - totally jealous...

 

[flowerbug]

Sounds like you're having a really good tomato harvest - totally jealous...

Big Beef (a beefsteak variety it may even be a hybrid) tomatoes, in the right conditions i can get 40-60lbs per plant per season. it's about 3lbs per quart when canned.

i'm not sure what this season is going to end up like since so far there has been a lot of damage from raccoons and the weather hasn't been great so that first picking might be the majority of what we get. my current estimate is 60-90 quarts total (from 9 plants).

last year i told Mom i was downsizing so we've gone from 12 plants to 9 (which is much less than 16 or in some years past i was growing over 30 tomato plants). i am overloaded with what we having going as it is so having less to process this time of the year will help.