Preserving Your Harvest

[Sally PB]

Mine weighs over 400 pounds loaded with jars, food, goods and lumber. Just FYI for the right casters and the smoothest floor available.

That's a really good point. Thanks for the particulars.

 

[WthrLady]

And the shelves, glue and screw and put in support bars that are glued and screwed in as well.

 

[BReeder!]

Cross posting...

We MUST haul every tomato and pepper out of the garden TODAY. The low tomorrow is 39F. Ripe or not everything has to come in.

Now I need to find the time to process all of that though... Busy with house and yard work because we have family coming by next weekend for the kids birthday party. So much to do, so little time.

And speaking of processing the tomatoes and peppers, solenoids had a green tomato salsa recipe for canning. Can you please share? It was probably already posted, but I'm not finding it.

 

[WthrLady]

It was Penny
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/preserving-your-harvest.1485715/page-39#post-24904813

 

[BReeder!]

Butternut squash: cube and can it or mash and freeze? Any thoughts? Is taste better later with one method over the other?

 

[BReeder!]

Another question for you all today.

Kale: best/favorite methods of preserving? I'm thinking some frozen and some dehydrated into kale chips. Never did either with kale though. I'm sure there's other ideas for preserving kake too, so please share them.

 

[Sally PB]

mash and freeze?

This is what I've done in the past. I needed to drain some water off when it thawed, but it tasted good.

 

[WthrLady]

boiling cider down into syrup all day
smells good.

 

[BReeder!]

boiling cider down into syrup all day
smells good.

sounds delicious. You make the cider or buy it?

 

[Sally PB]

boiling cider down into syrup all day

I've never heard of this! It sounds delicious. What do you use the syrup for?