Earlier, I did the green beans, corn, spinach, zucchini, first planting of beets, and some tomatoes, so the DH did the rest of the tomatoes I had picked, and boy, was he sorry!
Somehow we ordered the wrong variety of paste tomatoes this year, they're about half the size of the ones we've always had. Which means you have to handle twice as many tomatoes to get the same amount of sauce. He blanched, cooled, skinned, and cooked them down - he started at 8 am, worked nonstop except 20 min for lunch and half an hour to walk dogs, and didn't finish until 8:30 at night - and only got one pot of tomatoes filled and cooking!! Usually it takes about 2 hours to fill a pot. We won't have much tomato sauce in the freezer this year! And we'll be more careful to order the right thing in the future...but the catalog said they were paste tomatoes, and either didn't tell the size, or we didn't read it carefully enough.
Anyway, this week I'll be doing second-planting beets and spinach, the sprouts, and maybe some more green beans, though they've slowed down almost to stop!
I'll be making pumpkin pies and freezing some stewed pumpkin, too. I hope - boy do I wish I could retire!!!
