Sunday, September 07, 2008

Eleven Wal-Mart bags full of tomatoes from the garden: zero dollars
9+ Hours of blanching, peeling, cutting, straining and bottling: zero dollars
Dozens of bottles of tomatoes, salsa and pizza sauce that we an use all winter and know that we grew ourselves: Priceless.

8 comments:

  1. oh my gosh, you guys are quite the farmers! awesome!

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  2. by the way, when did you find time for this? before or after you ran a half marathon? you're like superwoman.

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  3. The half was in the morning at 8:00. We started tomatoes at noon and gave up at about 10 p.m. It was a fun day.

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  4. I concur... you are like superwoman!
    Once again - I'm totally impressed.

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  5. that's way cool! I've always wanted to learn how to can...

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  6. Awesome that is on my schedule for friday... Sr. wall and me are taking on our tomatoes big time!

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  7. that is awesome! i have a tomato plant with tons of tomatoes on it but they are just not turning red, do you know what to do about that? also, how did you prepare the tomatoes for bottling? and where are you storing them?

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  8. Hey lady I so love bottled tomatoes. My mother makes us some from her garden ever year.. yummy!

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