Preserving Your Harvest

[WthrLady]

Me either! Where'd you get the lids?

It was a case of Kerr jars with bands and lids that I picked up a couple of weeks ago.
I boiled the apple pieces in the light syrup as well to release a lot of the trapped air in the pieces, but there is always still some.
it was the weak way they sealed, and how they sounded, and the sealant on top of the lids. But to have ALL the jars fail. NEVER have I ever.

 

[WthrLady]

I don't usually buy Kerr, which is also Ball. I honestly don't know why they keep up the two name brands, as they cost the same.
But if it is a name/quality issue, I'll not get them again.
That said, I have 10 half pints of apple butter, so the boy is happy

 

[BReeder!]

I've asked the peppers a lot! They smoked yesterday, overnight they cooked down a but as the firebox died out and then I religious l relit it this morning and kept smoking them until around 4pm today. I didn't get them in the dehydrator yet because we had to head out to a family party. They get dehydrated tomorrow.

 

[WthrLady]

Wrapped up the remaining garden tomatoes and put in their storage flats for weekly checking.
I'll put up 6 qts of sauce tonight.
I want to do more onions in the dehydrator, so I'll figure out a day this week to take it outside.
Then I'll wash up the trays and get some beets done on silicone sheets.

The last of the cloudy day tomatoes are on the counter. Those I'll smash and ferment to get and save the seeds. I'll plant a few of those for next year and send some to a friend in NorthDakota.

10 half pints of apple butter yesterday need washed today too. Phew.

 

[Sally PB]

I don't need to worry about cooking and freezing any butternut squash this year, because we got ZERO. Something gnawed the only one that might have ripened while it was too green to pick. So I pulled the vine and hauled it into the chicken run. Somebody will get some good out of it.

I'll get some b-nuts at the farm stand this week. Sigh.

 

[WthrLady]

Just moved the jalapenos from their conditioning container to their jar.
Now I want nachos with melty fake cheese.

 

[BReeder!]

The smoked jalapeños and habaneros have been in the dehydrator for 24 hrs. The whole jalapeños and whole habaneros are not fully dry yet, but the habanero halves are perfectly dry. The whole peppers are going to be canned in adobo sauce, so I'm not too worried about them being fully fried as I would have to rehydrate them.

I'll have pics later of whole peppers in adobo after I pick up some more 1/2 pint jars.

Here's the fully dried habanero halves. There's 100 habaneros (200 halves), and they would probably fit in a quart size bag. I have them in a gallon bag though.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Bought regular lids only Amazon 4 boxes of 25

 

[BReeder!]

The chipotles and smoked habaneros in adobo are done. The bit of left over adobo was used as a bar for a pot of chili.

Here's pics of the peppers going on the smoker, coming off the smoker, oyt of the dehydrator and then canned in the homemade adobo sauce

 

[WthrLady]

Not my harvest, but I managed to get 25 pounds of Romas for $22, so I'll leave those on the counter for a couple days. They need washed to remove the parafin. Gross.

Sampled the sauce I made today so often while simmering it, I wasn't hungry for supper.
It was SO GOOD.

Those crazy lids failed on two of the jars I tested on them. I tossed the rest of them.

I also picked up some candy onions and some yellows to dehydrate.

Things are winding down.

Now After this next batch I'll put the canner back in the cabinet and get it out when I hit a sale or have leftovers to justify taking it out.

I'm ready to regain my counters.

Already have seed and plans for next year. I need to transfer all that to a paper calendar when they go on sale, so I can plan the seeding shed, the greenhouse, and planting schedule.