Home Grown and Canned Tomatoes

If you have been following my blog, or are new, I am referring back to my September 09 post and photo “Spring Garden”. This is what I’ve been growing all Summer long.




There is nothing more rewarding than going out to your garden and picking a handful of home-grown vegetables...because, after all, you are what you eat.


Since we live out in the ‘bush’ there is a small (big to some) price to pay for all the lush greenery: during the Winter, it is dark and damp. In other words, the sun doesn’t shine in the back part of the house, nor backyard (garden area) for about 5 months out of the year. I will complain about that topic on another blog post once Summer is over. Stay tuned folks!

To preserve the feeling of home grown tomatoes all Winter long, I usually grow between 5 to 10 tomato plants so that we are able to can our extra tomatoes and use them in all those rich Winter stews and sauces. Yum!

Here are a few photos of my canning helper at work.






Now we have a garden treasure to look forward to this Winter.

As you can see, we combined the yellow pear tomatoes with the other red tomatoes.