I'll never can again-pant, pant!

Of course I don't mean that!  But I almost felt that way.  Although we far exceeded last year (our first year), we still didn't have enough for the rest of the year in tomatoes.  We'll grow twice as many plants next year, and no more Mr Stripy's.  They did awful!  (They were rotten before they were ripe)  Our Roma's did great, as did our Lemon Boy's.  I love the yellow breeds!  We use them for spaghetti and pizza sauces.

So, Arlis went to Knoxville for a day, and dad took him to Rutledge to get tomatoes at $10 for 25 pounds.  You can't beat that.  You really can't.  So, for $37, we got 56 pounds of tomatoes, and 35 pounds of peaches.  Most of the peaches were molded, but only a few tomatoes were bad. 

(we got two of the above boxes of tomatoes)
This farm sells to Krogers.  Now, for the unaware, grocery stores do not accept food that is (get this)
Too large
Too small
The wrong "shape"
etc
(Look for these farms for great end of season deals for your canning!)
Do those tomatoes look wrong to you?  Me neither.
So, our pantry looked like this

The jars are three deep.  Tons of beans, little tomatoes, a few potatoes, kraut, and empty quart and jelly jars.
We bought 24 more jars.  They only had small mouth, so I had to settle for those.
There was much canning

 He was a GREAT helper!

We finished around 7pm or so last night.  Now, our pantry looks like this:

Ah!  That looks much better!  Anyone want any beans?  Seriously, I harvest 3 pints every other day-it's getting ridiculous.  I'm about to the point of just letting it grow and not harvest any.  (the chickens don't seem interested).  I've got a basket full in there now needing to be canned and well....