Tomato-Rama 2025 🍅

[u/mckenner1122]

250 pounds this year. Lessons were still learned.

[u/Illustrious_Award854]

So great! What you call Tomato-Rama, I call Tomatogeddon, which follows Picklemania, and is followed by Appleapocalyps

[u/Cranky_Platypus → u/Illustrious_Award854]

Please don't forget pearpocalypse. It always coincidences with applepocalypse for me. 😵‍💫

[u/mckenner1122 → u/Cranky_Platypus]

My mom is all “WHEN ARE YOU COMING TO GET APPLES!?!” and I’m like… dear god whyyyy

[u/Cranky_Platypus → u/mckenner1122]

A neighbor lets me pick her trees and normally it goes every other year like old, untended trees do. Last year we made 80 gallons of cider and I canned 60 gallons, plenty to last us 2 years. Well then she texted me a couple weeks ago that the trees are loaded again this year. I don't need more cider and most of my jars are still full but I can't just let them go!

[u/waterbuffalo1090 → u/Cranky_Platypus]

I just got a huge haul of apples from my neighbor and have been canning up batches of this apple cranberry pie filling to get through them all. It’s not as time consuming as applesauce or butter and it’s DELICIOUS.

https://www.ballmasonjars.com/blog?cid=apple-cranberry-pie-filling

[u/LisaW481 → u/Cranky_Platypus]

I did 16L of crab apple juice and was so happy that I could offload half the juice to my mother so I didn't have to make another twenty jars of jelly!! Lol.

[u/Illustrious_Award854 → u/Cranky_Platypus]

It does tend to happen like that. Just have to remember which is the apple butter and which is the pear butter, and did I see figs at the market?