yesterday was another day of harvesting
tomatoes and putting some of them up.

previously we had some off-brand lids
which we used last year without any
problems, but they changed them and so
we had them popping off. as this is
the first time this happened in the many
years here we took them all back and
bought name-brand lids. all which have
gone well this past evening.

i'm guessing that the problem was that
the off-brand lids have a coating/sealer
that is shiny and does not allow any
steam to escape while the name-brand lids
are not shiny and do allow some steam to
escape.

so with this evenings efforts we have
another ten quarts of tomato chunks now
sealed up and ready to go for the next
year.

i'm looking at another pile of tomatoes
to process, but these are questionable
quality and will require more contemplation
that morning may bring. some strange
thing has happened to them that we've not
seen before in many years of gardening.
so we'll see what is what in the AM...


songbird