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Juice and Salsa Tomatoes: Top Picks for Flavorful Canning


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Q. Hi, I am wondering which tomatoes you would recommend for canning, mainly juice and salsa tomatoes. I usually grow Amish Paste or Roma’s.  I want to stay away from GMO’s.

Juice and Salsa Tomatoes

Juice and Salsa Tomatoes - St. Clare Heirloom Seeds

A. For our recommendations it will depend upon the flavor you are looking for. If you are looking for a more traditional flavor from your juice and salsa tomatoes, like that in commercial varieties, we would say go with the Campbell 33 and/or the Heinz 2274. If you’d like to have a little more heirloom tomato flavor and variety to it, we’d recommend what others say and tell you to throw in a variety of tomatoes.

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Harvesting Fall Vegetables and Tips for Storing Your Bounty Through the Winter


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Harvesting Fall Vegetables - St. Clare Heirloom Seeds

As the warm days of summer give way to the crispness of fall, heirloom gardens become a haven of vibrant colors and bountiful harvests. Harvesting fall vegetables at their peak ensures that you enjoy their flavors and nutritional benefits well into the colder months. However, knowing the best techniques for harvesting and storing fall vegetables is crucial to keeping them fresh and maintaining their quality through winter. Whether you’ve grown root vegetables, leafy greens, hardy squash, or other cool-weather crops, this guide will help you store your harvest efficiently and prolong its shelf life.

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Easy Peel Tomatoes: The Gas Flame Peeling Method for Faster Canning


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Discovering a New Easy Peel Tomato Method: Gas Flame Peeling

Easy Peel Heirloom Tomatoes - St. Clare Heirloom Seeds
Nothing tastes quite as good as you own homemade spaghetti sauce, made from your own heirloom tomatoes, in the middle of winter.

The canning season may be over for most of us gardeners but we are excited about this tip that we discovered through a customer inquiry. We have always gone with the “blanch and peel” method of peeling tomatoes for canning, a messy and at times difficult method, but it works. However, when a customer asked us if we had a better method we thought we’d go looking and see what we could find. Our new favorite method for easy peel tomatoes: Gas Flame Peeling! For more info on Easy Peel Tomatoes and other methods of peeling your favorite heirloom tomatoes click on over to http://www.wikihow.com/Peel-Tomatoes.

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