Let the Tomatoes Begin!

I managed to get the harvest in ahead of the rain today by about 10 minutes but I lost a couple quarts of fluid doing it - it is hot outside! Below we have the weights and pics of what was hauled in. The majority of the tomatoes were picked today but a few were actually from a couple days ago - they just hadn't been weighed yet, so they were all piled together. Same story on all the potatoes, which I pulled about a week ago and hadn't done anything with since then. The watermelons and other melon types I've given up on weighing although I can say that while they're all good, the Sugar Babies are the preferred variety right now.

Tomatoes: 34 lbs., 9 oz. (15.66 kg) total
 ·Black Plum - 4 lbs., 1 oz. (1.84 kg)
 ·Red Calabash - 19 lbs., 6 oz. (8.79 kg)
 ·Tommy Toe - 1 lb., 4 oz. (0.56 kg)
 ·Black Krim - 5 lbs., 13 oz. (2.64 kg)
 ·Sweet 100 - 2 lbs., 5 oz. (1.05 kg)
 ·Unknown - 1 lb., 12 oz. (0.79 kg)
Potatoes: 13 lbs., 4 oz. (6.01 kg) total
 ·Yukon Gold - 1 lb., 4 oz. (0.56 kg)
 ·Kennebec - 12 lbs. (5.44 kg)
Carrots: 2 lbs. (0.91 kg)
Green Beans: 1 lb., 15 oz. (0.88 kg)
Cucumbers: 6 lbs., 12 oz. (3.06 kg)

The tomatoes will go towards sauce tomorrow (roasted way down in the oven, then canned). I would think of sending some off to the flea market but the forecast is for rain, so that's a no go. Rather than worry about cool storage for relatively few potatoes, I'm going to can them in quart jars. The carrots and green beans are also up for canning. The watermelons and cantaloupe/muskmelons we continue to eat fresh and give away. The cucumbers... more pickles? I don't know yet.



( Pictures from Around the Garden and of Today's Harvest )