Be sure to plant canned tomatoes on the site
If the description of a particular tomato variety says about its canning purpose, you need to clarify what the manufacturer means. The fact is that preservation in this case means both traditional whole fruits, drenched in a fragrant marinade with herbs and spices, and delicious sauces, preparations with tomato slices and fruits in their own juice.
Housewives know how difficult it can be to put beautiful large fruits in a jar. And even if this succeeds, such tomatoes often burst either during pouring with marinade, or when trying to get them to serve. Therefore, for canning whole tomatoes or their slices, it is necessary to choose varieties with medium-sized dense fruits, in which the seed chambers are small, and the seeds themselves are small. Today, tomato varieties with elongated fruits in the form of pepper, cream or pear are popular. If you find varieties that bring fruits of different colors that are close in weight and ripening time, homemade preparations will delight you with both taste and a rainbow of shades enclosed in a jar.
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Canning varieties for whole fruits
What are the best varieties for canning today? It is not easy to make a choice, because gardeners have more than one hundred and even a thousand varieties at their disposal. In order not to be mistaken, you should pay attention to whether a particular variety is zoned for cultivation in a particular region, to the timing of ripening and to the characteristics of the fruit.
June
The early ripening period makes it possible to use the fruits for platter with ground cucumbers and other vegetables.
Gazpacho
A medium-ripening variety with dwarf, strong bushes and red cylindrical fruits. The weight of tomatoes is 40–80 grams. Their skin is dense, not cracking, the taste is rich, sweet. Besides pickling, these tomatoes are good in sauces, juice and tomato paste, and are also ideal for fresh consumption.
Valentine
Among early varietiessuitable for canning, it is worth highlighting the Valentine tomatoes. The variety forms bushes of medium height, which are moderately stepchild and must be tied to supports. Fruits in the form of elongated even cream are colored in red-orange tones, have a good sweet and sour taste and do not crack during mass ripening of tomatoes.
An average tomato weighs 80–100 grams. The pulp is dense, there are few seeds and they are small enough. The variety is not afraid of dry periods and bears fruit very well.
These tomatoes are versatile and are equally good salted, pickled or fresh.
Lady fingers
The low bushes of this early variety, which do not require pinching, are decorated with elongated dense fruits of red-pink color in the second half of summer. Tomatoes are formed in place of racemose inflorescences. The weight of one fruit varies from 50 to 70 grams. The tomato has a pronounced sweet taste and there are few seeds in the sugary pulp. Ideal fruit for all types of home canning, salting and juicing, pasta and sauces.
The amicable return and abundance of the crop is facilitated by the variety's immunity to most diseases of the garden crop.
De Barao group of varieties
Varieties of medium late ripening periods are very popular with Russian summer residents. Indeterminate bushes can reach a height of 3 meters and require a mandatory garter. The fruits, depending on the variety, are pink, dark red, raspberry, black or yellow in color. In this case, the shape of the tomatoes is correct, oval. The mass of tomatoes is 80-130 grams. The dense skin ensures excellent preservation of the fruit in the marinade, and the sweet pulp guarantees excellent quality of canned food. Record shelf life of fruits removed from the bush.
Balcony Miracle
For assorted vegetables, small popular today are ideal cherry tomatoes... Ort Balkonnoe Miracle can be considered an example of an unpretentious tomato with ultra-short ripening times. The tomato is suitable for growing both in the open field and in containers. With a bush height of 50 cm, a mass of small, round fruits weighing up to 50 grams is formed on it. Mass-ripening sweet tomatoes are great in pickles and fresh salads.
Tomatoes for sauces and pasta
For the preparation of tomato sauces, snacks and pasta, it is better to choose varieties that form the most fleshy sweet fruits with a small amount of small seeds. In fact, for these purposes, you can use lettuce tomatoes with thin skin and obviously good taste. The sweeter the tomatoes are, the richer the taste of the product will be.
Undoubtedly, when choosing a variety, gardeners pay attention to the protection of plants from diseases and pests, as well as to the complexity of agricultural technology. Today, the number of worthy options is not even hundreds, but thousands.
The most famous are Bull heart, Big Beef F1, Mikado, Wild Rose, Raspberry Giant, Pink Flamingo and many other varieties.