Harvest Ripe and Near-Ripe Tomatoes & Discard Spoiled Produce

hey guys this is Josh Denny rich farmer these aren't beans they're gourds good gracious this gourd is like five feet long today on the farm vlog we're going to take you into the garden we're going to be picking tomatoes and we're getting prepared to can our Tomatoes so we're going to take you and we'll show you what we're picking we'll tell you a little bit about the thought processes of what we're doing and then in a future vlog we'll show you how we're canning our Tomatoes so let's go in the garden today we'll talk about the garden a little bit and we'll also give you a few tips on getting ready for canning so come along today we're gonna have some fun these are huge so one of the questions I get asked a lot because our garden is producing more than we need really I mean look at these gourds I don't even know what we're gonna do with them but I do know what I'm gonna do with them right now so we'll throw them into the chickens and anything that's extra that's going to waste will either be put in the compost or put with the chickens okay we'll break these gourds up and the chickens will just chow down on awesome so folks here we are in the garden as you can tell we've had a lot of rain and it just kind of knocked everything down overweighted everything and things are just toppling over here in the garden we're at the point in our Tomatoes where we're about to call it quits we're going to go ahead and keep harvesting Tomatoes as long as the tomato vines will keep growing them and we'll keep canning them but what I'm going to show you today is our thought processes and how we pick the tomatoes and what we pick and what we leave on the vine so these Tomatoes here are our roma tomatoes okay and what you're seeing here is the tomatoes that are just getting ready to get ripe and they're just starting to turn we pulled these off the vine as soon as they start to turn so that they don't fall off and go to waste on the ground you don't pick a tomato up off the ground and can it you just don't do that so any of these tomatoes that have fallen off and hit the ground we will not use them we've got some awesome delicious roma tomatoes we have two rows of Roma's now at least Tomatoes here are called patio delight and let me show you a little bit of unda lightful situation so the tomatoes split these guys split on the end and the reason they split is because they started to turn which stops the growth of the skin and they absorb more water so we got a rainstorm after it…