What are you canning now?

[anbhean]

Tomatillo? What is that?

More or less it's a little green tomato that grows in a paper shell. Very popular in Mexican food. Makes AWESOME salsa.

 

[math ace]

More or less it's a little green tomato that grows in a paper shell. Very popular in Mexican food. Makes AWESOME salsa.

It is a really cool Mexican tomato that is used to make salsa verde, green salsa.
Cool to grow.... The tomato grows inside of this thin soft coccoon that turns into a tough husk when the tomato is ripe.

 

[texas75563]

I like to experiment. Last year I tried fermented pickles for the 1st time. They turned out great. This year I'm trying 14 day sun pickles. 9 quarts of dill pickles and 1 quart dill beets.

I hope these turn out ok because they are super easy.

 

[anbhean]

We are about to can some cherry jelly and pickled cherries. Later this month we'll be canning raspberry jam and probably some blueberry jam too.

 

[jomoncon]

Made a batch of jalapeno pepper jelly yesterday. I'm beginning to sell jellies at a local farmer's market & pepper jellies are a big seller. Today, it a couple batches of habanero gold jelly.

 

[Momagain1]

Mulberries!! Tomorrow is Mulberry jam "day"....

we are blessed to have a couple mulberry tree/bushes in our yard...BUT there are about 7 of them in an abandonded field across from my house...

So, we went to pick them and have 1 gallon bucket of mulberries...so tomorrow we are making mulberry jam!

We are also making an amazing Blueberry Lime jam (FANTASTIC in our homemade greek yogurt)...

and someone let me come pick a LOT of black raspberries!!


TIME TO CAN THE JAM!!!

The result of picking mulberries as follows:

 

[BarefootMom]

I want mulberries! Right now I am doing pickles, grape juice (the easy kind), and I have a case of blueberries and strawberries to do something with.

 

[Olive Hill]

I miss Mulberries. When I was a kid we had a whole tree line of them.

Finished up the Strawberry season here last night with 11 pints of Strawberry Jam and 5 more of Strawberry Kiwi. Next up: Blueberries. Well, usually. We'll see. The Wild Black Raspberries are coming on a full month early so they may actually beat Blueberries to the punch this year.

 

[mebberry4]

Right now I am doing pickles, grape juice (the easy kind), and I have a case of blueberries and strawberries to do something with.

ooh! What is the easy kind of grape juice? This sounds interesting!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Put up one batch of plum jelly with the wild native plums we have growing in the back pasture & have juice in the freezer to do another batch later on. 16 pints of kosher dill pickles. Have 2 giant bags of tomatoes in the freezer I gathered during the week since I didn't want to fool with them after work, today I'll thaw those up & put up tomato sauce. I also made a small batch of rose petal jelly.

My tomatoes are AWESOME this year! I got some seeds from an elderly man down south of Purple Cherokee & they do GREAT in our hot humid climate. Picked 26 tomtoes Friday! I had several that were close to a pound. They are very thin skinned so must be eaten or put up quickly, but the flavor is great & such an unusual color, too. Very definitely a keeper; I am already putting some aside for seed for next year.

Happy canning everybody!!