What are you canning now?

[1FlewOver]

Well....my Mustang grape jelly came out well...next is pickled okra....(I have been busy elsewhere....so...I've just been cutting off foot long okra....my jalapenos turned red on the vine
...but....transportation to and from work trumps hobby gardening....so....I might be able to devote a little more time in the future.....

Edit:BTW.....The last of my paste tomatoes disappeared.....and I think it was my possums....(I found a cantaloupe on the ground unmolested
...really strange?)

But after the tomatoes disappeared...they have gone back to the melons.....

Needless to say.....it must be terrifying to be a cantaloupe and be attacked by hungry possums!!!!

 

[Peep_Show]

Finished the peach harvest...or I should say the squirrels helped me finish the harvest early. Anyway, with the final gleanings had enough to make another 10 half-pints of habenero peach jam. Had it on buttermilk biscuits with dinner tonight. YUM!!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

Run your blackberries through cheesecloth after you get them hot enough to release the juices. Thats the only way to make seedless/reduced seed jelly, then bring the juice back up to temp and add the pectin or surgar. Read that in a book and havent tried it yet, but it should work if not reduce the amount of seeds.

I'm going to dump the whole mess into a pot add some water, heat it up and run it through a strainer. I don't like it now so I've nothing to lose. I wish there was something else to add to it. Too much blueberry taste.

It didn't foam or boil up like I'd expected and jellies usually do. It just got thicker.

 

[1FlewOver]

Well....it only took half an hour
...(or a little more....)....to upload this pic....now my previous post might make more sense!!!!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

Well....it only took half an hour
...(or a little more....)....to upload this pic....now my previous post might make more sense!!!!!!

What is it?

 

[cheepteach]

is that the cantaloupe? Your possums are creepy!

 

[wyoDreamer]

Any one with a good recipe for Cherry Pie Filling made from fresh, tart cherries? The only recipes I can find call for using frozen cherries, thawing and draining them. Then using the juice to make the filling, adding the cherries right before putting it in the jar for canning.

 

[1FlewOver]

is that the cantaloupe? Your possums are creepy!

Oh yeah! That was the point.....that cantaloupe looks terrified!

I don't really mind them helping themselves to a little bit of my garden....they're my pets....I probably raised one from a little thing....to a full grown lap possum....but they don't do much damage at all....and even that big coon hasn't caused any problems....

 

[1FlewOver]

Oh.... little backstory....the last of my Rio Grande paste tomatoes "mysteriously" disappeared....

I was having problems with my truck and didn't get out to the garden for a few days....

Now....I trellis my melons....and found one on the grass outside the garden...(the trellis borders the garden).... that had gotten ripe, slipped the stem and landed in the grass....it was ripe, untouched, and the grass under it was dead.....

I've grown them before where the nibbled on almost every one on the ground.....so I took this one in....and a couple of days later I found that one nibbled on....now....they had obviously climbed the trellis to get it....because it was slighty unripe....so I let them have it.....

Also....(this is the second day)....this is about 8' from where it was.....and it's exactly how I found it.....

(I guess they were just too full of tomatoes to mess with the first one)....

 

[Beekissed]

Currently canning more hot pepper butter, green beans and meat cleaned out of the freezer consisting of bits of deer tenderloin, culled chickens from my flock and a few pieces of pork tenderloin not used in a cook out~just enough to fill three jars. All still good, but just odds and ends that weren't enough to fill a whole jar....these three jars should make for interesting eating later on.

Will be sure to mark them for their mystery contents.

Will move onto tomatoes next week and then back to more sweet corn to finish out the garden harvest. Next will come apples then, hopefully, deer meat in the fall, then more chicken as I cull the flock of extraneous chickens before winter. LOVE how easy it is to preserve food for winter consumption!