Our garden this year has seemed to fall behind others’ gardens.
The veg is looking great, but everything has seemed 2 weeks behind ‘normal’ production schedules that I’ve seen elsewhere.
Of course, some of this could be because we have non-gm heirloom plants, rather than special everything-tolerant plants. I don’t know.
I printed out a copy of our 5-week menu and started by identifying which meals have a base of tomatoes.
I figured that the cycle repeats itself 10.4 times in the year, so I rounded that up to 11.
Presently, I use canned tomatos as the base in my red sauces/soups, and fresh tomatos as a topping or garnish, or in salads.
A large can of tomatoes holds 28oz.
A quart jar holds 32oz.
After putting estimations on consuption together, I figured that we would need the following for a 1-year supply:
• 50 1-quart jars of tomatoes (for soups, pasta/pizza/chilli sauces). (Need just over 3 lbs of tomatoes per quart canned)
• 22 16-oz jars of mixed veg (tomatoes/onions/squash/courgettes/aubergines) for use in stuffing peppers/aubergines/courgettes.
• 7 16-oz jars of pesto.