Tomatoes for canning

The time to start planning for canning is in the early spring, when you choose which variety of tomatoes to grow. Here are 15 top choices.

Extra tomatoes? This is the easiest and the most convenient recipe for canned tomatoes you'll ever need, regardless of how many tomatoes you have!

Some home canning recipes for tomato-based products have started calling for the tomatoes to be roasted as part of the prep. The process works best with large, paste-type tomatoes such as Roma, San Marzano, and Amish Paste, etc, but it can also be done with other tomatoes.

Making tomato juice is one of the easiest ways to preserve your harvest of tomatoes in the summer. Use it for soups, stews, or canning whole tomatoes.

A great base to any pasta sauce, soup or stew; Canned Stewed Tomatoes is an inventive way to jazz up baked chicken or broiled seafood!

Preserve your homegrown tomatoes in a water bath canner two ways that works best with whole, halved, crushed, or diced tomatoes.

Simple and delicious, canning tomato soup at home is easy to do and much more flavorful than store bought condensed soups.

How to make a simple tomato sauce and canning tomato sauce instructions.

This cherry tomato salsa recipe for canning is so delicious and easy to make. It is so fun to make salsas and sauces from those pretty red cherry tomatoes. Just pop them in the food processor with the other ingredients and off you go. Makes a great gift too for any occasion!

Preserve fresh summer tomatoes! Use this recipe for canning tomatoes packed in water and processed in water bath canner for shelf stable jars.