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Brandywine tomatoes for canning [was Re: hmmm/Garden Report]

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Missi asked,

>I am thinking of getting Brandywines for next year.... I have seen 
>comments that they don't work all that well for canning as sauce, is 
>that true?

I've never tried to can OR make sauce of my Brandywines.  They're hugely
delicious, but I grow them just for eating uncooked.

In a good year (and this is NOT a good year), the fruits are very big and
have a good bit of juice and the gooey glop that surrounds seeds in the seed
cavities.  Therefore, Brandywines are the opposite of what cooks look for in
a sauce tomato:  a relatively low amount of watery stuff in relation to the
solids of the fruit walls.

Now if Missi is really interested in just canning the tomatoes, not making
sauce itself *or* using the canned toms to make sauce later, BW's may be OK.
Her sentence above is grammatically ambiguous.

--Janet


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