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What a great looking veggie garden.And those tomatoes….wow.It’s great you got enough to do all that sauce and paste.Way to go.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

I agree, Bon, what a great looking garden. Good job, RFG. Your sauces look delish. Nice young man you have there to help. :-)

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

Thanks Bon and Iris, it was fun to think of a way to share our tomato harvest with everyone.

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

Ah your making me hungry…I’ve been enjoying cherry tomato’s and pinapple tomato’s all September because of the late warm weather…....But pizza sauce now your talking my favorite food…............Keep feeding those kids, two legged as well….... Rog

-- Listen quitely and nature will tell you what to do..Open your eyes widely and you will be amazed..

Your growing tomato plants look lush green promising a good yield. Pasta sauce is new to me I will try to get it
from the super market and get the taste of it. I had grown sweet cherry tomatoes once on my terrace garden and I liked the taste. Which variety of Basil you have in your garden? You are adding one more seed to your seed bank. Grow it more.
Sharad

-- Bagwan-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

I don’t know the type of Basil I grew. I bought plants from a local farmer who has greenhouses and can start plants much earlier than I can. The plants were just labeled basil. I have let some of them flower and go to seed so I can try to save those seeds too. I have no greenhouse and limited space (with adequate light) in my house for growing plants in the spring. It will be a fun experiment, though.

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

What a great harvest of tomatoes and am excited that you were able to save seeds!! We were fortunate with our ONE tomato plant; got lots for just hubby and I. I have some getting red on my windowsill now. The last of them …

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI - Zone 5

GrandmaT, I am glad your tomato plant did so well for you. In my opinion, there is something very magical about growing our own food, no matter what the scale. I believe that when you eat a freshly grown tomato, vegetable or fruit, you can actually taste the blessings of the earth in each bite. I wish you delicious memories as we move into the time of year when fresh, sun-ripened tomatoes are not readily available in our corner of the world.

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

well done.
I hope I get a good crop of RED tomatoes next year!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Craig Ferguson is the best, since they messed up the Tonight Show.

Been thinking of attempting tomatoes, now that I’ve about got the dratted front lawn about covered.
Your romas look simply gorgeous! Canning though… scares the daylights out of me. My grandma was great at it, and VERY BUSY with it when we visited over summers as a kid, but I’m from “The O.C.” to start with—sure not much training in canning going on in many households in that area—at least, not “back in the day” when I lived there!

Did you use seeds from store tomatoes to start with, or don’t those work?

-- Grew a lawn from sugar sand with some help from a pet chicken and the "ghost" of Jerry Baker. Rank amateur gardener, needs all the help she can get!!

Tomatoes are relatively easy to grow and they grow well in containers if you don’t have any space in your yard. You can use seeds from a tomato from the store but if the tomatoes are hybrid, the seeds will not produce the same fruit. If you want a particular type of tomato, it is probably best to purchase the seeds you want of a young plant from a local gardening store. If you like serendipity, go ahead and try seeds from a tomato in the store.

Neither my mother nor any of my friends’ mothers ever canned anything. I learned by reading books about canning and preserving. It isn’t that hard once you learn the basics and you have some equipment to make it easier.

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

I got one single ripe tomatoe this year….......................and the dog ate it.

Its a good thing I like the dog more then I liked the tomato

-- Central northish Ontario