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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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Heirloom Seed Varieties for Extreme Heat Conditions


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Malabar Spinach survives well in extreme heat conditions.

Q. I’m in Southern California, and it is HOT here, I’m looking for some leafy greens that can stand extreme heat conditions. I saw you have the Malabar Spinach and that’s supposed to be pretty good for zone 9/10… Do you have any recommendations of heat tolerant varieties lettuce, spinach, cucumbers etc. Anything else you can  recommend based on what you’ve seen growing in your garden?

A. Thank you for your patience in awaiting the list. 🙂 We took your requested varieties and expanded our search, deciding to make it a topic to share with all customers who live in extreme heat areas. Thank you for sparking this research! Below the lists, we also have added some links to articles you may find helpful for extreme heat conditions, and some tips that are helpful when gardening in high heat. We hope you find this helpful. May God bless your gardening efforts!

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