Preserving Your Harvest

[pennyJo1960]

Nice looking I have amny strawberry's waiting to be planted hard spring step into summer here to darn much rain low temps ...

 

[Sally PB]

Came across this list and thought I'd share...

Thank you. I copied and saved this. I didn't know that onions give off ethylene gas and shouldn't be next to potatoes. I don't store them together, but the boxes are next to each other. This year, I'll separate them and see if the tater last a little longer. They did well, but about February, they wanted to GROW.

 

[tripletfeb]

I canned 18 jelly jars of Strawberry jam today and froze 6 quarts of strawberries for later. My husband got the strawberries for me from an Amish family, they were bright red, beautiful and wonderful tasting.
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I'm going strawberry picking today and hope to get jam put up. I plan on getting rhubarb too and making strawberry rhubarb jam, my favorite! Yours looks good!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'm going strawberry picking today and hope to get jam put up. I plan on getting rhubarb too and making strawberry rhubarb jam, my favorite! Yours looks good!

I hope you get lots of yummy berries!

 

[tripletfeb]

I hope you get lots of yummy berries!

Not a bad haul. They are big and juicy, should make good jam. Got good looking rhubarb too, $3.89 a pound

 

[Tinypahomestead]

I can, freeze and dehydrate. Recently dehydrated some jalapeños and ground them into powder to sprinkle on foods. Takes up a lot less room.

 

[Sally PB]

Nothing to preserve here yet, but thinking ahead to this fall. If I have a moderate harvest of tomatoes and potatoes, I'll have a lot of both, due to the number of plants I have. About 1/3-1/2 of the potato plants have flowers. I'm toying with the idea of digging one of the plants up to see what might be there.

 

[tripletfeb]

I have already made strawberry rhubarb jam and will be making more tomorrow. Yum!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I need to get all my meat birds processed so I can preserve some garden and orchard produce.
So far we've butchered 16 quail and 19 meatbirds. 19 Meat birds to go and maybe a couple roosters dressed out.

 

[wyoDreamer]

@Sally PB
When I grow potatoes, I will gently dig around the roots to harvest "new potatoes" before the plants are done growing in the fall. By disturbing as few roots as possible, the plant continues to grow and I usually end up with a decent harvest. But I cannot resist sampling before harvest time.