Tomatoes

After spending a week and a half in Iowa, we returned home to find a sea of red tomatoes in our garden. There were only a few ripe tomatoes when we left for Iowa, and now we found 4 buckets of ripe tomatoes without looking too hard.



These were large/meaty tomatoes.





Mary did battle with the crimson onslaught and in the end she contained them in canning jars. 13 1/2 quarts of spaghetti sauce and 25 quarts of tomato soup. 9 1/2 gallons of tomatoes.

This was only the first skirmish of the season and the tomatoes are regrouping for another attack.