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Default the tomato games continue

19 more quarts yesterday of tomato chunks.
all plinked ok. music to the ears.

have had two failures (one jar broke
while sealing) and another spoiled and
was noticed when we were moving some.

the spoilage problme is no surprise to
me as we've had a lot of oddly shaped
fruits (the first half of the harvest)
with a lot of inclusions and stems going
all the way to the bottom, etc. probably
from the high heat.

later in the season more tomatoes are
shaped as they should be. much easier to
clean/process. *whew*

we have a few buckets ripening yet and
maybe a few more buckets out on the plants.

i roughly added up the total in the
records and it's over 200 quarts so far.
not bad for 20 tomato plants and not
counting what we've given away or eaten
fresh.

had to laugh the other day when we
heard of someone who has 300+ plants.
like, yow... must sell them...


songbird