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Gardening

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Paper Roses

(7,550 posts)
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 08:50 AM Aug 2020

My friends, I need advice regarding my cherry tomatoes. [View all]

For Christmas last year, my kids gave me an above ground garden(love it). I planted Big boy tomatoes, green beans and Romaine,
The tomatoes did not do well.
Beans and lettuce great.
This year, I decided to plant cherry tomatoes. Wow, I must have 1000 tomatoes, I have already given away a big bunch of them but I'd like to freeze them as this progresses.

I know how to blanch and peel them. Do I remove the seeds? I used to do the seed removal on the bigger ones l but don't really know how to handle these tiny tomatoes. Do I just blanch and freeze or squeeze the seeds out before freezing.
I make all kinds of soups, stews etc w/tomatoes but am not sure about the seeds in the cherry tomatoes. Will there be anything else left if I remove the seeds?

Next year, I think I'll try another big tomato. What the heck am I going to do with about 1000 cherry tomatoes except eat a few and prepare the rest to freeze. The seeds are the real question.

Any advice will be appreciated. My kitchen counter in now covered with about 100 of them. I have to do something with these today before the next batch..probably in 2 days. The plants look great and I know I'll have hundreds more. Help!
Thanks, PR

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