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It's not to late....I may set mine back up this weekend. I need better wicking material. The stuff I used decayed before summer ended.

One year I experimented. I used 2 liter soda bottles, a giant piece of PVC pipe, and used a wicking cloth up into the soda bottle that was filled with Miracle-Gro and had my strawberries planted in it. To keep them watered I just kept the PVC pipe full I had the biggest strawberries that year of...

You might try growing them in large pots with Miracle-Gro potting mix I got an extreme harvest when I did that.

Sounds like you will be pressure canning? That's something I have yet to attempt. We use a lot of bell peppers here. Those freeze well enough and are very easy to prepare for freezing. It's as simple as clean, core, cut, pat dry and vacuum seal then freeze. The texture isn't as crisp as fresh...

I am right there with all the new to preserving folks. I got way more serious about it during the lockdown. I am really hopeful for a good garden of his year even though I am not planting a huge variety of things. Mostly I need my tomatoes and strawberries to have a banner year.

I hope they start ripening for you. Nothing beats home grown tomatoes.

My garden is largely removed. All I left in was 4 early girl tomatoes, swiss chard, and bell peppers. Unless we count strawberries.... Those are still planted of course. I have enough tomatoes canned to see us through. Still have several bell peppers waiting to change to orange and yellow.

They will brown and lose juice. I would wait til you can do them all the way through the process. Yes even with lemon juice or fruit fresh.

My dehydrator is this one...

That POP is a satisfying sound for sure. Here I took most of my garden out today. I start a new job tomorrow and it would be to much to do after work. It is both sad but necessary that the corn, beans, hot peppers and onions are all harvested. I kept the early girl tomato plants and the bell...

The strawberry jam I made is a soft spread so not a firm jam nor a syrup. Still delicious though.

Just don't forget that the recipes are/have been questioned and may not be shelf stable. The one in my good ole better homes and gardens book is for freezer jam. It was printed in 1996. Yup it's THAT old.

Not sure if this helps Penny but this is in my big ball book. It was published in 2014. It doesn't call for pectin....which seems odd but some fruits have enough natural pectin.

Another full canner of tomatoes being processed right now. It's wonderful to have this bounty of tomatoes this year. The wind last night blew over a dozen corn plants so those need handled today as well. Green beans.....I am getting sick of processing them. I really should be grateful to have...

BEST trick EVER!! I love it! :lau

I hide zucchini in brownies. :oops:

Can you post the recipe?

That is good to know. Thank you for investigating it.

I canned tomatoes and made a double batch of peach butter today. Taking tomorrow off sounds like a great idea.

That scares me. The internet recipes are ok if it's basically a cooked item. Canning by random recipe is just to risky in my opinion.