Thanks. With the influx of tomatoes, and having sauced enough for a year, its time to move onto other things to make and store for the year. Will be making salsa, although I had my worst pepper year ever. Everything I did ( which was the same thing Ive done year after year) has failed, so I have to buy peppers for the salsa. Ill also be dehydrating, making some tomato paste, freezing some skinned /pealed tomatoes for soup throughout the off season.
It's too bad Pepperhead doesn't live closer, maybe a trade could have been made, for peppers with something else. My good friend north of here, she is still working, so until she retires, we probably won't be trading garden surpluses. We bring fallen apples for deer to one of our gardening friends, and sometimes they give us sunflower heads. Today the spearmint needs to get cut for drying, but I have enough so that went to the gal next door, for tea in winter. A friend near madison needs some seed garlic but we only have enough to give out about 2 lbs (the rest we'll need), but she might have a bushel of tomatoes for me, so we'll make a trade.
Some years, the biggest producers from one year, are the worst the next year. (farmers know this) We usually have a ridiculous amount of tomatoes, but not this year, we'll get by knowing some of last year's canned tomatoes will even things out for us. Instead I'm hoping for more canned corn and green beans, possibly squash. It all evens out over the years. I'm hoping we get a good bunch of green peppers to ripen to red, for chopping and freezing, since I use that all winter. Our onions are flopping this year.
Sorry your peppers let you down this year.
Also, if you are deep in tomatoes, consider ketchup, and if you can get hot peppers, a tomato based hot sauce, for canning.