I love gardening with my kids.
Plus it is great for helping kids to learn and understand where our food comes from.
If you have an abundance of home grown tomatoes here is the easy way you could go aboutcanning tomatoes.
Canning Tomatoes
Our garden is finally really starting to crank things out.
It has been rainy followed by a very dry/hot season not good for most of my veggies.
But, my tomato plants have flourished!
With our bumper crop of tomatoes, it is time to work oncanning tomatooverflow to enjoy all winter long.
If youve never tried it, it is super easy tosave fresh tomatoes!
Plus it is a fun project to do as a family.
So let me show youhow to preserve fresh tomatoes.
Types of Tomatoes
We have 8 tomato plants this year.
Backyard tomato garden
The Marzano have grown WAY beyond my expectations!
They have topped out at just shy of9 feet tall!!
We prefer to can tomatoes so they can be made into sauce and stored in our pantry for convenience.
Turn the wheel and the the press does the work.
The pulp & juice comes out one spot & the peels & seeds come out another.
Now drop tomatoes in boiling water for 30-45 seconds.
Pull out and immediately put in ice water.
After 20 seconds the peel should pull slide right off.
Now cut tomato and put in large stockpot.
to keep jars looking fresh).
Place jars inside pressure cooker.
Turn heat to high and cook until pressure indicator reads 11 pounds of pressure.
Adjust heat to maintain 11 pounds of pressure.
Cook for 15 minutes.
Turn off & move pan off of heat.
Allow to thoroughly cool; dont rush it or the jars may break.
You are using tomatoes in their season when they are full of nutrients!
And for me, this is the first of MANY times canning this season.
For my $3 pack of seeds I will easily yield over 100 pounds of tomatoes!
