There are plenty of ways to preserve fresh tomatoes, so you can choose the method that best accommodates your cooking style and amount of storage space. There are four basic types of tomatoes: meaty ...

Check out ‘The Preserver’s Garden,’ written by Staci and Jeremy Hill. It’s essential to anyone who doesn’t want food to go to ...

Summer tomatoes are sweet and juicy, but like summer, they are gone fast unless preserved. There are many easy ways to preserve summer tomatoes at home so you can enjoy their flavor when summer ...

If you’re like countless other gardeners across the South, backyard tomatoes are one of the best parts of the spring and summer gardening season. If the plants have the right growing conditions, ...

LET'S JAM: Spiced tomato jam is a simple way to preserve the WNC harvest to savor year-round. Photo by Glenn English We are now deep into tomato season here in Western North Carolina. After you’ve had ...

This year my yellow tomatoes have been bountiful; I’m enjoying them with almost every meal. While the lack of rain has caused some gardens to pause production, others haven’t had a problem offering ...

Q: I can’t find lids for canning jars anywhere. The stores I called are all sold out. I’ve got jars, but no lids. What am I going to do with all of these tomatoes? A friend uses used lids, but I was ...

For decades, Vera Massey has been dispensing precise advice about canning tomatoes, among other fruits and vegetables. A friend once said about a canning session, “It’s so hot it’s like being in a ...

It's the end of summer and your tomato plant is somehow still producing pounds of the ruby-hued fruit. So what do you do? Eat as many BLTs as possible, and then freeze the rest for later. During the ...

Fruits are nature's candy, but we don't just eat them because they taste sweet. Many fruits are also incredibly nutritious; they're particularly high in antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and fiber, so ...