292 - Best Tomatoes for Canning
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Today we are talking about my top tomatoes to use for canning and why they are my favorites.
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| 0:00.7 | Hey, you guys, and welcome back to the podcast. We are headed into the tail end of February, |
| 0:06.0 | and at least for me and my climate, that means I'm getting ready to plant my tomato seeds indoors. |
| 0:12.6 | That's why I thought this week would be the perfect week to talk about that. So today we're going to be |
| 0:17.6 | talking about the best tomatoes for canning or preserving, |
| 0:22.9 | because that is honestly my purpose. |
| 0:26.3 | If you've heard me before, you know I don't love, actually, actually hate the taste of fresh tomatoes. |
| 0:33.6 | I know it's crazy. |
| 0:35.1 | I've tried. |
| 0:35.8 | It's like the one vegetable that I didn't like from childhood |
| 0:38.6 | that I still have not been able to figure out how to like. For the longest time, it's green beans. |
| 0:43.1 | Now I like green beans, but I just can't like tomatoes. I'm sorry, I wish I could. I want to |
| 0:49.4 | because homegrown tomatoes supposedly taste amazing. But for me still, I do grow some slicing tomatoes for |
| 0:55.7 | my husband and for my son. He started liking them on sandwiches. Hallelujah. He's 16. Maybe there's |
| 1:02.7 | hope for my daughter. But I don't know if she's like me, maybe not. Anyway, I also like to grow the |
| 1:08.5 | slicing ones for bruchetta and salsa, fresh salsa, things like that. |
| 1:13.7 | So I can eat tomatoes as long as they're just not by themselves without other flavors involved. |
| 1:21.1 | Okay, so all that to say, with all of the tomatoes that I grow, I grow almost all of them for canning purposes. |
| 1:28.4 | And if you're wanting to grow any type of tomatoes that you have intentions to preserve, |
| 1:33.1 | I want to talk a little bit about why you might want to choose a different type than another |
| 1:39.0 | based on the purpose that you're going to be using your tomatoes for. |
| 1:43.1 | So today we're going to be talking about |
| 1:44.4 | the best tomatoes for preserving and specifically for canning. So maybe if you're starting your |
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