"And I won't count the radishes we had before the tomatoes were ripe,
either. Those belonged to all of us.
"The prize isn't going to be given away until all the crops are
harvested, or brought in, and then we'll see who has the most and the best
of things that will keep over Winter."
"Can you keep tomatoes all Winter?" asked Mab of her father.
"Well, no, not exactly. But Mother can put them into cans, after they have
been cooked, and she can make ketchup and spices of them--chili sauce and
the like--as well as pickles, so, after all, you might say my tomatoes
will last all Winter.
"Sometimes you can keep tomatoes fresh for quite a while down in a cool,
dry cellar, if you pull the vines up by the roots, with the tomatoes still
on them, and cover the roots with dirt. But they will not keep quite all
Winter, I believe. At any rate I'm not going to keep ours that way. We'll
can them."
Mother Blake sliced the garden tomatoes for supper. She also made a
dressing for them, with oil, vinegar and spices, though Hal and Mab liked
their tomatoes best with just salt on.
"Tomatoes are not only good to eat--I mean they taste good--but they are
healthful for one," said Daddy Blake.
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