Tee hee.  How do you 'make' tomatoes?

Thistledo wrote:

Tee hee.  How do you 'make' tomatoes?

You take a tomato seed, you plant it in the soil. add water..and wait....when your tomato plant starts to grow..you nurture it, feed it..support it...you protect it from slugs and snails...

Keep it warm. pot it on as necessary...feed again..make sure it is gettting plenty of air and daylight...

add more supports in the way of canes if  required...

when the fruits start feed again...

Then you get a completely rotten summer, your tommies rot on the vine....and you go out and buy tins of tomatoes....

you then resolve not to try raising tomatoes again......
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Until next year......you never know...we might have a good summer........

We do up a few cases of our own every summer/fall.   I don't do them whole though, process time is less for ground , so I run them through our kitchenaid grinder after skinning them.  I need the strainer attachment  so that we don't even have to skin them next time.  I use citric acid instead of bottle lemon juice, but both are ok and you  can't taste either.   If you are worried about BPA though and are using bottles like the ones in mummza's link . Make sure the snap lids  are BPA free.  The inside of snap lids are clear or white plastic/resin coated to reduce corrosion and the older ones did contain BPA.

wine-o.  Ah the member meant Growing, rather than Making tomatoes then. All has become clear - thanks.  Thought there was something going on that I didn't know about.
I grew a cascading cherry tomato 2011.  Not very successful.  Putting it down to that summer, too.  In the past though, when I had a greenhouse, I loved growing them and mostly very successfully.

MsPablo wrote:

People tend to freak about these Norwegian foods, but honestly if you're a haggis eater, nothing should really scare you.  

Haggis contains offal. Not caustic soda!