What are you canning now?

[pirtykitty]

Thank you... I have them on the dinning room table right now cooling.. I hope I can move them somewhere else after they are cooled..Wouldn't ya know it hubby noticed right off the bat that there was clear at the bottom.. I had to remind him this was my first attempt at canning something..

 

[BabydollAdams]

I canned 8 pints of pickled onions and 7 8oz jars of pina colada jam. My husband really likes the onions and I like the Jam tastes just like pina colada.

 

[pirtykitty]

I just found out that I should of put the jars in a hot water bath for 5 minutes. drats.. I now have 2 quart jars and 2 pint jars in the fridge taking up a ton of room.. The recipe didn't say to put in boiling water for 5 minutes.. I made them because it didn't call for it.. I don't have a pot deep enough to do hot water bath.. Horse feathers.

 

[HenThymes]

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Did you do the white ones this year?? Mine are just coming into bloom can' wait!!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

I just love this tread!!!! So much activity going on, people busy with gardening and canning, no couch potatoes here!! lol

I picked 6 squash last week and 7 more the other day. I fried some w\\up with fresh garden onions last night and ooolala it was delish!!!

Our strawberries are done for this year. Our potatoes will be dug up within the next month. Green onions are the bomb!!! And here is an idea for you with green onions....I love to eat the green parts but we have so many that I couldn't keep up, lol, so I cut them in 4 inch strips and dehydrated them, when they were done I chopped them up and put them in jars to use in my cooking and canning recipes.

Green beans, Wax beans, Zuchinni, Tomato, Squash, Okra.....is all doing well here, we jsut need a good shot of rain and it will all jsut take off. So ready to get the canning up and running at full steam!!!

Planted 3 Raspberry plants last week, so I hope that maybe by next year they will yield some fruit for making jam. Our wild Blackberries are getting ready, we jsut need to keep the deer away for about another week and then we can get to pickin'.

Hope you all have a wonderful canning season and please be careful with canning. Newbies...please read all instructions and safety regulations before jumping right in. Toodles!!!!!

 

[vfem]

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Did you do the white ones this year?? Mine are just coming into bloom can' wait!!

I did do the white ones! I also did the green pickling cukes as well. My plan, mix them in the jars so you have 2 tone pickles in 1 jar.

Acre, I am so going nutz in the garden this year already, I have more space and lots more plants. Its lots more work, but with much more reward

We already harvested and ate all out potatoes in the last 2 weeks. We had some bbq's and made lots of roasted potatoes to serve and potato salad. Oh well, I'll have have to do a fall planting. We already harvested our onions, just letting them cure now. Have about 2 more weeks on the garlic though, I just harvest scapes this past week.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm jealous of all of you with your gardens in full swing. It's STILL cold and rainy here, which is so unusual for us. My cucumber plants and melon plants died from the cold. Tomatoes plants are hanging in there as are the squash plants. Thankfully we're supposed to warm up to the 70's and 80's this week.

 

[KDbeads]

Man, I am soooo late to the party this year because of this move! I do have 14 tomato bushes planted now and 6 cukes, and 4 zucchini. Won't have a lot from my own garden due to the late start but there are corn and soy fields everywhere out here, same for farms.... hoping to be able to land some fresh stuff soon!

But I did want to tell you guys what I've been doing with a few things I canned earlier..... I attempted lemon jelly in January, it never set, so I pulled out a half pint of the soupy stuff a couple of days ago, added about a cup of powdered type sugar, 1/2 tsp lemon extract (this was made from the lemon peels when I made the jelly) and made a glaze for a lemon cake.

Hubby has already been surfing the canning pantry in search of other jellies that didn't set so I can make glazes out of them! Right now it's at lemon, lime and mango, though I'm thinking he might want the mango a bit thicker for pancake syrup.
Also, the strawberries I put up in April have been attacked by hubby already, he LOVES them and he's using the syrup from the jars in his tea, same for the peaches I did last summer. It's easy, just dump the syrup in the bottom of the tea jug, add the hot microwaved/steeped tea, stir, finish adding water to make up the gallon and sweeten a bit if needed.

I also have a ton of roses out here...... tempted to try the rose jelly again.

I really should get a pic of my new pantry and show it off. Thought for sure I'd over run it but it has room to spare!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

So KDBeads, where did you move from and where to?


I would love to do rose petal jelly but my white John F Kennedy Rose Bush was killed several years ago and I jsut got a replacment on Monthers Day this year.

And, sorry you didn't get to plant a garden but maybe you can plant some late veggies.

 

[KDbeads]

We moved from almost dead center of TX and are in Dinwiddie county. We brought the heat with us apparently. Was 105 when we piled in the truck and left town, 3 days later it was 102 here. Though it at least rains here, no more 30% less humidity, I can breathe again!

Once I can get everything situated inside and get the backyard fenced in enough for the dogs I'm going to work on a summer crop of more squash, maybe some of the drought/heat tolerant pickling cukes, possibly okra, and hopefully some green beans.