Do you do a lot of canning, etc? I have a big garden this year for the fist time, and I am considering canning stuff.
Yes, and this year I'm planning on selling a good portion of my crops.
I make jelly from hot peppers and so as they start coming on I bag them up and freeze them for when I get in the mood to make a batch, or I run out.
We lived in a condo for years and I still canned my own tomato sauce — bought “culls” from the farm stand. I made 84 quarts of tomato sauce one year. (They lasted into the second year — was a tad too much, but it was my first year at canning so I didn’t know how much I’d want.) It’s amazing how much better food tastes when you put your own sauce in soups. I can get it spiced just the way we like it.
This year I’m going to can tomato sauce, marinara sauce, spaghetti sauce (arribiata), and a chili spiced sauce. Might make some brescetta too while I’m at it. Since this is the first summer we’ve been retired, I’m really curious to see how many tomatoes I get from the plants I’ve put out.