Gardening, Canning, and "Gleaning"
TOMATO GARDEN Our tomato gardening was particularly successful this year. We have 33 quarts of tomatoes. Twenty-one of these are whole tomatoes. This is a particularly efficient way of canning tomatoes since only the skins and cores are removed. We were delighted that we have very few tomatoes where additional portions of the tomato had to be discarded. The remainder of the tomato quarts are juice; juice is also used as packing for the whole tomatoes. COLD PACKED TOMATOS We were especially delighted that once we had satisfied our canning needs, we began to deliver tomatoes every weekday to the Saint Gabriel Food Panty. They were in left over boxes from West Market that we had from prior years where we had to buy tomatoes to meet our canning quota. The boxes are designed to carry ten pounds of tomatoes. In filling the boxes, we used only the best- looking blemish free tomatoes. Our tomatoes are picked just before peak ripening then placed on our sun porch b...