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Juice and Salsa Tomatoes

Juice and Salsa Tomatoes - St. Clare Heirloom Seeds
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Hi, I am wondering which tomatoes you would recommend for canning, mainly juice and salsa tomatoes. I Amish Paste Tomato - St. Clare Heirloom Seedsusually grow Amish Paste or Roma’s.  I want to stay away from GMO’s.
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Easy Peel Tomatoes

Easy Peel Tomatoes - St. Clare Heirloom Seeds
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: 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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