What are you canning now?

[rancher hicks]

@rancher hicks
I don't think you will need to do anything different using frozen berries. If there is excess water from frozen crystals of ice, it will cook off. Mmmm...gooseberry jelly. I would like to grow gooseberries here. My grandmother had them in Cincinnati years ago and always had a jar of gooseberry jelly sitting on the table at every meal. I can only find the plants through mail order ; no one local carries them. Many of the younger generation don't even know what they are. Some day I will get some...

I got my blackberry bushes as cuttings mailed to me from someone on here. Perhaps there is some one on here who can and will send some cuttings to you. My bushes are not good enough to take cuttings.

 

[rancher hicks]

That was j o s t a berry cuttings.

 

[KentuckyMom]

@rancher hicks
Yes, I need to look into that idea again. I was in touch with someone from Maine about cuttings but needed to wait for the right season. ( autumn) By the time it rolled around , I'd forgotten and misplaced the name of the person. Are berry cuttings hard to get going? Do you root them in water first ( like tomatoes) or put them directly into the ground. People on here talk about fruit tree cuttings too, but I've never tried those either.

 

[pfields]

My dad's grape vines produced a lot of grapes this year so I've been making grape jelly. The grapes are small red grapes and make the best jelly.

Our tomato plants are outdoing themselves this year so I've also been making salsa. Lots of salsa!

I still have dewberry jelly from last year and dewberries frozen in the freezer for jelly or cobblers.
These grapes are sweet enough to eat right off the vine. My chickens loved them.


Still have this many leftover after making 18 quarts of salsa and
the plants are still loaded with green ones.

 

[N F C]

My dad's grape vines produced a lot of grapes this year so I've been making grape jelly. The grapes are small red grapes and make the best jelly.

Our tomato plants are outdoing themselves this year so I've also been making salsa. Lots of salsa!

I still have dewberry jelly from last year and dewberries frozen in the freezer for jelly or cobblers.
These grapes are sweet enough to eat right off the vine. My chickens loved them.


Still have this many leftover after making 18 quarts of salsa and
the plants are still loaded with green ones.

@pfields , nice looking tomatoes!

Never heard of dewberries before, I need to look those up.

 

[pfields]

Dewberries look like blackberries but to me taste much better and they grow wild. They make the best jelly and cobblers. We usually start picking them in late April and early May. They were plentiful last year and hardly none this year.

 

[N F C]

Thanks @pfields , they make for a pretty picture too. I bet that would make a delicious cobbler!

 

[3goodeggs]

NFC, I don't have on my glasses and just gave you Pfield's ovation, but I am pretty sure you had an ovation coming to you for something.

I think it's gonna be one of those days.

 

[pfields]

Thanks @pfields , they make for a pretty picture too. I bet that would make a delicious cobbler!

Yes, and very easy to make.

 

[N F C]

There you go @3goodeggs , I returned your ovation so you can use it over. Too funny but thanks anyway!

(I gave her an ovation, that can come from both of us, ok?)