The bowl in front is what I got out of the garden. The 2 in back are what’s left of the 15# that wasn’t ripe a few days ago. I’d planned to turn them into tomato soup base and a rainy Saturday was the

The first round of tomatoes for ketchup was over 50#. Some of that went to tomato soup and I only got 14 pints. I’d wanted between 30 – 36. So I ordered 2 more 20# boxes of red tomatoes. These are the

On Thursday morning I finished off the ketchup. It never did thicken like I wanted, but has excellent flavor. I’d cooked it so long I got half the amount I was supposed to, 14½ pints. That’s the difference

Wednesday started early, about 6AM. I had two 20# boxes of tomatoes and the 10# that had ripened from the previous boxes, plus what had been picked on Tuesday. Well over 50# of tomatoes. In between all

I’d ordered 2 more 20# boxes of tomatoes to be picked up on Friday. They wrote and said they had 1, and probably would have a second by Friday afternoon. After 2 trips to the farm store because I forgot

I was gifted this brand new Squeezo strainer on BuyNothing in 2017. I really love it! This is how I set up for smaller batches. I did grow a few tomatoes this year but we use a lot of spaghetti sauce,