What are you canning now?

[MissPrissy]

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oOOOoooo....you were busy too.

I was! Over the weekend I did 32 quarts of green beans along with several other things.

 

[chickencrazymamahen]

Goodness ladies, its that time of the year isn't it?? Congratulations on all you got canned. We plowed out the last of our potatoes this morning for a grand total of 24-5 gallon buckets plus all we have been eating for a month. Picked the green beans and canned 19 quarts of new potatoes and beans, 2 quarts of new potatoes, 4 pints of new potatoes and 6 pints of summer squash. The last canner is running right now!! What a great time of the year! Hope its cooler where you all can, my canning kitchen was 102 degrees this afternoon!!!!!

 

[anbhean]

Hey Kim_NC, I believe Colorado is zone 4. So that means most of what I grow can't be harvested until August thru late Sept., or early Oct. (if it doesn't snow in Sept. like last year).

We're actually ahead of the game right now because most everyone I know didn't plant until the 1st of June (we had snow until the end of May) and my DH and I planted mid-May with plenty of snow protection! So I should have tomatoes a full month ahead of anyone else in my area. Well at least anyone else who isn't a semi-pro at the farming game. I'm just a backyard gardener, so I'm pretty easily pleased with my crops.

 

[sunflowerenvy]

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wow i wish i have engery too what time do u go to bed n get up? i just got finish planting half my veg garden today

 

[Kim_NC]

I finished up 9 pints of Chow Chow after supper last night, around 9:00pm. Had chopped the veggies in the afternoon and put them to soak during the afternoon heat. I can't work the garden when it's blazing hot (over 85*) - I just dash out and throw ice bottles in the chickens' waterers.

Happyhensny - My mom makes the Cherry freezer jam. It's good!

andhean - Snow in May?!

I would cry. LOL

chickencrazymamahen - 24 5-lb buckets! Holy Smoke! (See ladies, someone else has more to do than Miss Prissy or me.

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We run air conditioning. The kitchen does get heated up some when we can, but not too bad. Sometimes I turn on a small box fan at the doorway to pull a little extra cool air in from the main room.

sunflowerenvy - yesterday I was wide awake at 4:30 so I just got up and had an early start. This morning I slept until 6:15 and am still drinking coffee. We usually go to bed around 10:30. You planted half a garden yesterday!? You're busy too!

I'm off to the garden to spray this morning. These horrible little yellow larvae/bugs we've never seen before had moved into the bean rows last night, munching happily on the leaves. Found them while picking. Now that the beans are picked, the 'little buglets' are getting rotenone (organic, of course) for breakfast. Maaawwhhaaahaa!

After that, we have to pickup our meat chickens at the processors (a 2 hr ride) and do errands. I won't be in the kitchen much today.

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Almost missed your post, Vfem. Sheesh....that doesn't sound like slacking to me!

Harvest - What a wonderful time of year!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

O.K.....hubby and I put our brains together and came up with an outdoor canning area. Once we got the kinks out it worked great.

We started by using our old tub out of our front load washer, that gave out after just 2 years, and that is what holds the pressure canner.
We used an old gas burner from an old grill that has been long gone.
We used our coleman outdoor cook stove to heat up the pot for the beans and to heat some water for scalding jars and heating lids.

After we got all this together and got in the groove of things.....we canned up 21 jars of Green & Wax Beans mixed and it worked out great!! Even though it was 94* here yesterday outside.

If you plan on doing this please remember.....SAFETY FIRST.....


Here is the tub that hubby rigged up for heating the pressure canner

Here is the gauge on the pressure canner. Coming in at 10 lbs.

Here is one of 3 pots of beans that ws heated using the coleman cook-stove. We only used a 1/2 of one of the green propane tanks for this.

End Result.....beautiful jars of green & wax beans. We did add some side meat for flavoring.

We will be canning some Chow Chow in the next couple of days.

Have a great day everyone

 

[joel david]

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Sissy

Our high for the day is 112! I'd trade you (then again it's a dry heat).

Beans look nom.

What is Chow Chow? I canned 7 quarts of asparagus last night for my pressure canner's maiden voyage. I walked away from it for a while and when I came back it had climbed fro 11 pounds to15. I know that dropping bellow would be bad but what effect if any does the higher pressure have. I'm going to make some jam tonight other than speed is there a reason to do water bath over pressure?

Thanks
Joel

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Nice set up!!!!! Sure beats heating up the house.

Steve

 

[chickencrazymamahen]

Miss Prissy its wonderful that you have A/C to can in! My back canning/cooking kitchen is sure a hot place, but we try to keep the a/c from running anymore than necessary; but I sure would love to have a setup like yours!

All these jams and jellies sure sound good! I have searched for the corn cob jelly recipe on here and haven't found it, hopefully somebody will be making some soon and I can get that recipe, sounds really interesting.

Today was mostly a day for shredding cabbage and putting it in a small crock I borrowed to make some kraut. I did some in the jars a week ago and they are supposed to be canned after a week, but I have no idea what it is supposed to taste like after a week, and it sure didn't taste like sauerkraut...hmmm....will be interesting to open about September and see if it really did become kraut.

Acres of Blessings those beans sure look good, wish we had planted some wax beans this year they always look so good in the jars!

Don't work to hard! Gotta go churn some butter this afternoon!

 

[OutInTheStiks]

I realized today that there are blackberries galore on the hill behind one of our barns. The guy who has the land leased hadn't bush-hogged it in a couple of years. I picked a gallon in no time and am making freezer jam. We'll be going back when my partner gets home and it cools down a bit to pick some more.