On Wednesday morning I went out and harvested every tomato worth taking that was ripe. I use a Squeezo to separate seeds, etc and it hates unripe tomatoes. These were the Amish Paste and Moskovitch eating tomatoes.
These are 3 Amish Paste tomatoes. The bottom one is your standard 3” tomato. The 2 outside upper ones were 2” – 3” in diameter. The center one was nearly 5” across. Not bad for a paste tomato.
These were some other paste tomatoes from plants I had picked up at the Farmers Market. They were called Juliette and they are tiny, most under 2” long.
These are Kapija peppers and Walla Walla onions. The Kapijas did very well. I broke a branch harvesting and ended up with the green ones. I gave them to a friend. The Wallas were a big disappointment. They are tiny. I am used to them being as big as softballs. I’ll use the greens as green onions.
The humidity was wicked on Wednesday morning and I had put on a hooded sweatshirt to keep the mosquitoes off. I got overheated and had to rest a while. I only got the vegs washed up. I couldn’t stand long enough to cut them up.
Later on I got out some of the equipment I will need to can. I let my helper know we’d not be doing books on Thursday morning, but getting messy making spaghetti sauce instead.
I got 34.5 lbs of tomatoes, enough for 1½ batches of sauce. I’m hoping I get at least 12 pints in the end. I will need to pick more peppers and onions in the morning as I had guessed at how many I’d need and was short.