What are you canning now?

[Beekissed]

Nah...that just fills 4 shelves of a single shelving unit in our little storage room on the back of the house. When we used to homestead, we would can 100+ qts. of each veggie, fruit and meat and those were stored in our root cellar at the time...that filled many deep and long shelves. This is just considered a dab of canned goods compared to how much folks used to can back in the day when we weren't all so dependent on the grocery store. Back then I'd be embarrassed to even tell folks that this is all I had canned up by this time of the year.

 

[shortgrass]

Nah...that just fills 4 shelves of a single shelving unit in our little storage room on the back of the house.   When we used to homestead, we would can 100+ qts. of each veggie, fruit and meat and those were stored in our root cellar at the time...that filled many deep and long shelves.   This is just considered a dab of canned goods compared to how much folks used to can back in the day when we weren't all so dependent on the grocery store.  Back then I'd be embarrassed to even tell folks that this is all I had canned up by this time of the year. 

Oh how I wish I had grandmas root cellar.... It was like canned paradise lol.. Rows and rows of beautiful fish, peaches, pickles.... I'm sure there were more things but those were my 3 faves... Those shelves were always PACKED. She would panic come summer because she would start "running out" of things...I'd go down and there would still be 12 quarts left, but to her, she was 'out'.

I sure miss those days.

 

[rancher hicks]

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[Beekissed]

Oh how I wish I had grandmas root cellar.... It was like canned paradise lol.. Rows and rows of beautiful fish, peaches, pickles.... I'm sure there were more things but those were my 3 faves... Those shelves were always PACKED. She would panic come summer because she would start "running out" of things...I'd go down and there would still be 12 quarts left, but to her, she was 'out'.

I sure miss those days.

Me too! Granny's cellar was always a fascinating place for us, with gleaming jars upon jars and crocks filled with pickled corn, cabbage and beans along the floor, root crops in bins. A scary, dark, cobwebby place filled with hidden treasure that she gladly shared with us kids...we would feast on her pickled corn like a marauding army!

Then we got our own cellar and started filling it with all of the same things, except our pickled corn was in a huge whiskey barrel, filled to the brim with corn. Since it didn't fit in the cellar it was left outside, so when you dipped into that in the winter your hands froze numb before you could even get any corn! That whiskey barrel corn was the best pickled corn I've ever had in my life...it had a certain kick to it like no other.

I sympathize with her feeling of running out...this year we got down to 8 jars of corn before canning season...felt like we were on short rations. So we decided to can twice as much corn this year so that wouldn't happen.

 

[Peep_Show]

Did 9 quarts of garlic dill pickle spears and a pint of spicy hot garlic dills (fresh tabasco peppers from the garden added to the jar.....the orange things in the short jar)

 

[WthrLady]

Tomatoes, tomatoes, and MORE tomatoes. I have taken to doing cooked, condensed, tomato purée. It's what I use the most of all year. It cans well without separating, and I use my stick blender to do away with the seeds.

I'm pulling 30 pounds out of the garden every three days. Mercy.

Need more jars.

 

[Beekissed]

Excellent harvest!!!! The tomato puree sounds like an excellent way of putting up tomatoes with very little effort or waste.

 

[N F C]

Tomatoes, tomatoes, and MORE tomatoes. I have taken to doing cooked, condensed, tomato purée. It's what I use the most of all year. It cans well without separating, and I use my stick blender to do away with the seeds.

I'm pulling 30 pounds out of the garden every three days. Mercy.

Need more jars.

Wow, great harvest on your tomatoes!

(Now I'm suffering from tomato envy.)

 

[shortgrass]

Tomatoes, tomatoes, and MORE tomatoes.  I have taken to doing cooked, condensed, tomato purée.  It's what I use the most of all year. It cans well without separating, and I use my stick blender to do away with the seeds.

I'm pulling 30 pounds out of the garden every three days. Mercy.

Need more jars.

Nice! I lost 2 early girls, a Roma, and a big beef already, so I'm down to 6 champions, 2 early girls and a beefsteak to pull me through... Managed 18 pints last night off the first haul...

Still bummed though, I'm down a burner on my stovetop and minus 4 big producers.. Next year, I'll make it up

 

[WthrLady]

I planted three heirloom varieties that are so wrinkled and ugly that they are useless as canning tomatoes. My Roma are going nuts, as are my cherry and marble tomatoes (can't can those though). A real winner, although SLOW to ripen, are my SUPER SAUCE tomatoes!!! Next year I am planting more of those. They are a meat tomato like the Roma, but are the size of an eggplant! Each tomato fills a Quart jar!!!!

My early girls are just OK this year. My lemon boy is banner.

My plants are well labeled so I will make a list this fall on who gets a chance again next year.