All our tomatoes this year have been affected by blight (not sure if it is early blight or late blight), Can I can the fruits that look perfect? What I notice is if I let them sit on the counter to ripen some more, some develop soft spots that turn dark and rotting. But may I safely can the ones that I just picked and look perfect? Have you had a similar experience and did your canned tomatoes stay good in storage? Thanks for your advice!
Tomatoes always have some kind of blight in the hot humid south (here in southern TN). Especially later in the season when most canning is done.
We wash them first, cut out any bad spots… then water bath can them… or simply freeze in widemouth pint or qt jars…vacume sealed.
Never had a problem with that.
TNHunter
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Thank you for sharing your experience. Your response gives me more confidence in canning tomatoes. I was reading up to learn more about safe canning practices and was somewhat scared into thinking that canning a tomato with a blemish (which I noticed tend to appear eventually on many tomatoes from plants that have blight) is bad. I will not be able to can/preserve our harvest if I get overly picky with which tomatoes can be canned. Again thank you very much.
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