As the warm days of summer give way to the crispness of fall, 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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Juice and Salsa Tomatoes
Question
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.
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Easy Peel Tomatoes
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.