When it comes to cooking, gardening, and yes sometimes canning, as long as it’s safe, and works for you and your family, then that’s what you do! Keep on doing what you do for the good of you and your family!
I've always blanched and peeled because my girls like it better. They're grown now, so it's good to know that other people dont mind the microscopic peels! 😅 thanks for showing your process!
I don’t peel my tomatoes either and I also use a variety. My Mam-ma taught me to do it that way because of the nutritional value you lose when you remove the skin!
Just made homemade spaghetti sauce yesterday with my home grown tomatoes and peppers 😃 I have that same pot and isn't it great to cook in! My momma canned in it and she gave it to me years ago. She has gone now to her forever home so I cherish it. I also made some hot mustard slaw out of some fresh cabbage, peppers, onions, from the garden and canned it. Some folks here in the south call it pool room slaw....it's so good on bbq, and hotdogs. Easy easy to make
Here is a video on the hot mustard slaw that i found on youtube. I use this recipe when I make it and canning. You can make it as hot or mild as you like. ua-cam.com/video/335XtfNEmj4/v-deo.html
So when I have tomatoes, corn, pickles, etc all at the same time, I freeze all the tomatoes that I need for juice and smooth canning like sauces, soup, etc. when you thaw those, the skin just falls off and your tomatoes will basically break down to mush. The tomatoes I need to have chunky like for salsa and diced tomatoes, those I process. But the frozen ones can wait until up after everything else is canned. You probably already know all this. Also, I use citric acid in the bottom of my jars, and that takes care of any low acid problem. You can get it lots of places but I buy from Hoosier Hill Farms. Hope this helps!
Suggest you trim your tomato plants so there are no leaves/branches (thus tomatoes) hanging within 6 inches from the ground. The 'experts' tell you that you should be doing that anyway to prevent soil borne pathogens from infecting your plants. I've noticed that when I keep my tomato plants trimmed high off the ground I don't get leaf yellowing so bad. Rats love tomatoes too. Try putting out a pan of Dollar Store cake mix mixed 50/50 with baking soda. Rats and mice can't process baking soda (they can't burp), so they bloat up, run off and die (it's a cruel world). But it works... I've don't it. Love your channel!
I did that straight into a crock pot let the tomatoes cook AWILE then hot out a immersion blender you couldn't tell. I let it cook done for paste etc. Then for years I've made and canned stewed tomatoes, then open 2 at jars 1 can paste , makes the sauce you add your seasoning add the meat or leave it on the side. I did 300lbs tomatoes 1/2 stewed half salsa 2021 . Thank you great video. Love when you just have to water bath and not skin tomatoes.
I’ve heard of other folks having some problems with turtles in their gardens, but we never have. Good luck with that! The spaghetti sauce looks delicious. We love spaghetti around here. Thanks for sharing friend. 👍🏻🙏🏻😇❤️🙌🏻
I have a lot of wild turkeys also and i have a dog that likes to be outside. She does a great job keeping them away from the garden. Electric fencing has been successful in the past too.
My mom uses plastic netting up and down her garden. With my blackberry bushes, it's the same plastic netting. I've only seen the birds get my berries that were low hanging. I'd think it would work for turtles but I've never heard of turtles being a nuisance.
Another good video that’s gonna make some delicious spaghetti. I guess you can put it in a great big pot of vegetable soup that would be good also. 😋❤️😋
I do it this way also!! 🙌For the exact same reason and you can NOT find the peel in the final product! If a person doesn’t like extra juice in their salsa I have strained the juice off Then can thick salsa and the liquid separately. The juice is awesome for chili, soups etc
Birds and or mice. I had to buy a cheap bird net for mine this year. At least in upstate SC we havent had enough water for the critters and they are getting it anyway they can.
That makes since! We have never had this problem before, but like you said it has been hotter than normal most of the summer and it would make since that the animals are looking for moisture. Thanks for sharing!
Honeeeeyyyy! The struggle is real! Critters destroyed most of my cantaloupe/melons and now working on my pumpkins!🤬 We built an enclosed garden 2 yrs ago for tomatoes cause squirrels and chipmunks!🤬 Something has started on peppers now too but I’m pretty much done and pulled some out today! Squirrels chipmunks and rats are the beast I deal with here in GA-oh and I did have an opossum too😫
I have had a lot of trouble over the years with voles taking bites out of tomatoes and other things. I put rat traps out baited with peanut butter and would catch them one after another. We got cats but they like to eat catfood but it helped some. I have had box turtles eat tomatoes but it was ones on the ground, the turtle ate so much that it was too fat to get back in it shell, I just left it alone as they were eating bad ones mostly. Could be other animals or birds but voles are pretty bad all over the country. I made sauce with the skins and it was good.
Throw it in their bless you you a mess 😂safe spies never frowned non ever I am not gone on bunch tomatoes I buy 3 big cans for soup that’s enough for winter soup frozen vegetables it’s easy hood lol I love your family
"If" your husband would happen to have a game camera that sends pictures to your phone put it on your tomatoes. If he shows up you'll get a picture of him then you can run out there and tend to him
Only bad thing is this particular garden is about a mile from the house down an old farm rd, it’d hear me coming whatever the critter may be lol that is a good idea to figure it out tho!
A little of everything 🤣 my favorites are called mountain pride, they are excellent for canning just because the tomatoes rarely crack and they ripen in bunches. I don’t plant “sauce” tomatoes, I just enjoy the large tomatoes more ☺️
Could it be a rat ruining your tomatoes?. Maybe not because of your cats roaming around your yard. Do you have possums or raccoons nearby? We had a problem with one of them some years ago ruining our tomatoes.
Please share all your turtle prevention remedies! Also let me know if you loved this recipe!
I had same things on mine and it was a hornworm and some other caterpillar. Found them at night with a black light.
When it comes to cooking, gardening, and yes sometimes canning, as long as it’s safe, and works for you and your family, then that’s what you do! Keep on doing what you do for the good of you and your family!
Your sauce is beautiful
I've always blanched and peeled because my girls like it better. They're grown now, so it's good to know that other people dont mind the microscopic peels! 😅 thanks for showing your process!
I don’t peel my tomatoes either and I also use a variety. My Mam-ma taught me to do it that way because of the nutritional value you lose when you remove the skin!
Very good point!
Just made homemade spaghetti sauce yesterday with my home grown tomatoes and peppers 😃 I have that same pot and isn't it great to cook in! My momma canned in it and she gave it to me years ago. She has gone now to her forever home so I cherish it. I also made some hot mustard slaw out of some fresh cabbage, peppers, onions, from the garden and canned it. Some folks here in the south call it pool room slaw....it's so good on bbq,
and hotdogs. Easy easy to make
That sounds delicious, but I’ve never heard of it! I’ll have to look that up, thanks for sharing!
Here is a video on the hot mustard slaw
that i found on youtube. I use this recipe when I make it and canning. You can make it as hot or mild as you like. ua-cam.com/video/335XtfNEmj4/v-deo.html
So when I have tomatoes, corn, pickles, etc all at the same time, I freeze all the tomatoes that I need for juice and smooth canning like sauces, soup, etc. when you thaw those, the skin just falls off and your tomatoes will basically break down to mush. The tomatoes I need to have chunky like for salsa and diced tomatoes, those I process. But the frozen ones can wait until up after everything else is canned. You probably already know all this.
Also, I use citric acid in the bottom of my jars, and that takes care of any low acid problem. You can get it lots of places but I buy from Hoosier Hill Farms. Hope this helps!
Yes! All that👆
Suggest you trim your tomato plants so there are no leaves/branches (thus tomatoes) hanging within 6 inches from the ground. The 'experts' tell you that you should be doing that anyway to prevent soil borne pathogens from infecting your plants. I've noticed that when I keep my tomato plants trimmed high off the ground I don't get leaf yellowing so bad. Rats love tomatoes too. Try putting out a pan of Dollar Store cake mix mixed 50/50 with baking soda. Rats and mice can't process baking soda (they can't burp), so they bloat up, run off and die (it's a cruel world). But it works... I've don't it. Love your channel!
I did that straight into a crock pot let the tomatoes cook AWILE then hot out a immersion blender you couldn't tell. I let it cook done for paste etc. Then for years I've made and canned stewed tomatoes, then open 2 at jars 1 can paste , makes the sauce you add your seasoning add the meat or leave it on the side. I did 300lbs tomatoes 1/2 stewed half salsa 2021 . Thank you great video. Love when you just have to water bath and not skin tomatoes.
I’ve heard of other folks having some problems with turtles in their gardens, but we never have. Good luck with that! The spaghetti sauce looks delicious. We love spaghetti around here. Thanks for sharing friend. 👍🏻🙏🏻😇❤️🙌🏻
Yes this is a first for me this year as well!
I have a lot of wild turkeys also and i have a dog that likes to be outside. She does a great job keeping them away from the garden. Electric fencing has been successful in the past too.
I caught birds flying in from the woods eating my tomatoes. I bought plastic netting from Amazon to put over mine.
My mom uses plastic netting up and down her garden. With my blackberry bushes, it's the same plastic netting. I've only seen the birds get my berries that were low hanging. I'd think it would work for turtles but I've never heard of turtles being a nuisance.
Another good video that’s gonna make some delicious spaghetti. I guess you can put it in a great big pot of vegetable soup that would be good also. 😋❤️😋
I don't peel my tomatoes either, I grind in food processor and then pour through strainer to catch seeds. Then put in pot. Much easier this way.
I second the turkey comment! It looks like how my chickens eat my tomatoes when they get into the garden...so frustrating!!
I can’t believe I didn’t even think of turkeys 🤦♀️ I’m about sure that’s what it is now, because we have a large Turkey population around here
Beetles are out pray we getting a hard dorm turtles do not climb they turn over they can not flip back pray love those babies
I do it this way also!! 🙌For the exact same reason and you can NOT find the peel in the final product! If a person doesn’t like extra juice in their salsa I have strained the juice off Then can thick salsa and the liquid separately. The juice is awesome for chili, soups etc
What a good idea to strain! I’ll be making some salsa soon and I’m going to give that a try! Thanks for sharing!
Garlic is good for you. 😊
Check for stripped off leaves and dark green little poops that'd be horn worms...look it up they a camophlaged pretty good.
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Looks Yummy!! Must smell so good in your house.
Thanks!
Enjoyed watching! We just worked on using alot of our tomatoes for salsa last night.
Birds and or mice. I had to buy a cheap bird net for mine this year. At least in upstate SC we havent had enough water for the critters and they are getting it anyway they can.
That makes since! We have never had this problem before, but like you said it has been hotter than normal most of the summer and it would make since that the animals are looking for moisture. Thanks for sharing!
Sprinkling garlic powder and cayenne has worked to keep things away from my plants in the past. If it rains you need to reapply.
Thank you!
they look like mine...and I saw the groundhog in there munching away. he did the same with the zuchini.
Honeeeeyyyy! The struggle is real! Critters destroyed most of my cantaloupe/melons and now working on my pumpkins!🤬
We built an enclosed garden 2 yrs ago for tomatoes cause squirrels and chipmunks!🤬
Something has started on peppers now too but I’m pretty much done and pulled some out today!
Squirrels chipmunks and rats are the beast I deal with here in GA-oh and I did have an opossum too😫
Girl it can be so frustrating at times, if you ain’t fighting the weather you’re fighting the critters lol
In Alabama we have a way to deal with turtles. Its called catch clean and cook there are plenty of turtle soup you tubes shows out there.
It's ninja turtles... you can't catch um.😂
Electric fences are fairly cheap these days, bird netting would also help.
Red Pepper!
I have had a lot of trouble over the years with voles taking bites out of tomatoes and other things. I put rat traps out baited with peanut butter and would catch them one after another. We got cats but they like to eat catfood but it helped some. I have had box turtles eat tomatoes but it was ones on the ground, the turtle ate so much that it was too fat to get back in it shell, I just left it alone as they were eating bad ones mostly. Could be other animals or birds but voles are pretty bad all over the country. I made sauce with the skins and it was good.
Haven’t thought about voles, it’s just got me stumped because I’ve never had this issue before, thanks for watching!
that anice tomato haul
Would be great in a lasagna too.
Throw it in their bless you you a mess 😂safe spies never frowned non ever I am not gone on bunch tomatoes I buy 3 big cans for soup that’s enough for winter soup frozen vegetables it’s easy hood lol I love your family
Ground hogs will do that to
I had the problem of something eating my tomatoes last year, set up a trail camera and it was an opossum, caught it in a trap and relocated him.
Can I add cherry tomatoes? Have A LOT of cherry tomatoes 😀
Absolutely!
Meagan, where did you purchase that big ass pot ? 👍😊
Belk used to carry them, it’s Biltmore brand, I love this thing ☺️
"If" your husband would happen to have a game camera that sends pictures to your phone put it on your tomatoes. If he shows up you'll get a picture of him then you can run out there and tend to him
Only bad thing is this particular garden is about a mile from the house down an old farm rd, it’d hear me coming whatever the critter may be lol that is a good idea to figure it out tho!
i had mice do this to my tomatoes, hugs hope it stopes for you
What variety of tomatoes do you plant?
A little of everything 🤣 my favorites are called mountain pride, they are excellent for canning just because the tomatoes rarely crack and they ripen in bunches. I don’t plant “sauce” tomatoes, I just enjoy the large tomatoes more ☺️
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays thank you so much. That is what I am wanted something that ripens in bunches to can.
Maybe it's a squirrel
That damage looks like what wild turkeys did to me. They never stopped walking. Kept eating as they walked through.
Ohhhh I did not think about turkeys! We have a very large population of wild Turkey around here
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays this may be it for sure then!!!
Rabbits will eat tomatoes
Got the same out of a raised bed figuring a rodent bird or rabbit
Look like squirrel
Probably rabbits or coon, even opossums - a turtle probably wouldn’t eat that many
Any suggestions on keeping them out?
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays blood meal and bone meal. They nor deer like the stench.. also plastic garden fencing (fairly cheap at Tractor Supply)
Could it be a rat ruining your tomatoes?. Maybe not because of your cats roaming around your yard. Do you have possums or raccoons nearby? We had a problem with one of them some years ago ruining our tomatoes.