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Re: Frost date & freezing v. canning


>  May 15th is the cut off date to be sure and miss frost.
That's about the same as ours
> We planted 
> our tomatoes the 2nd. week of April, so it was early. Had to really 
> look hard for plants. We kept buying  more plants until we realized we 
> had planted 110, figured that was a good stopping place. Still with 
> all the wet weather we had after planting, there does not seem to be 
> an abundance of tomatoes at one time like there usually is. There are 
> plenty to eat and give away to friends and neighbors, and that is ok 
> too. I only can tomatoe juice to cook spaghetti sauce and such. My big 
> canning days are over, it is too much of a task, and the kids are gone 
> from home, but they sure love the spaghetti dinners on Sundays.
> Zone 5/6 Indiana
> Monica
> 
Please tell me why you can your tomatoes etc. We used to bottle lots,
never got into canning over here because of costs, but now we have two
freezers and put everything in there, it's much more convenient than
bottling
Allan
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