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Need ways to preserve green tomatoes

Posted by lemonfair, July 31, 2009

Here in Vermont we've been stricken with late tomato blight, which apparently blew in on a storm - and with our cold wet weather it's devastating the plants in just a few days. I've got 78 tomato plants, and have only picked a few ripe cherries - and even a couple of them were starting to show blight.

So I've got to pick all my green tomatoes in the next few days, and I'm wondering what experience you might have had preserving them through freezing or even canning, and what you did with them afterwards. I ordinarily make some green tomato mincemeat and a relish that uses both green and red tomatoes, but there's a limit to how much green tomato mincemeat I want around. I should have 100 pounds or more of green tomatotes. A good salsa recipe would be welcome. Anybody do anything with dried green tomatoes?

Any ideas or suggestions?

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