Short Season Sauce Tomatos

[Catherine+two]

I'm looking for a short season sauce tomato. I've been growing tomatoes for years, and have NEVER produced enough for my Sicilian dad to can up a bunch for the winter. He's getting old, and we may run out of time if I don't get serious about the sauce search!

Geographically I'm south of center in the US, but I live on a mountain, so I have to deal with a short season, cool nights, and at almost no time during the summer do we average over 70 degrees F in a 24 hour period. Okay, this year we were a bit warmer, but I'm not counting on that next summer.

I'm not thrilled with paste tomatoes. The early ones always seem to have BER, and they mostly ripen "midseason" or "late season" which translates into late and never here. So I'm looking for some other cooking tomato to work with.

I've really never canned tomatoes or tomato sauce. I've dried tomatoes, and I've used tomatoes in a relish recipe, but not alone, so I'm planting seeds in the dark.

Thanks for your knowledgeable advice.

Catherine