What are you canning now?

[draye]

Canning Picante Sauce.
Tomatoes are the only thing left growing in my garden and there won't be many of them after a picing or two.
Way too hot and can't get enough water on it.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I just started with bees this year. It seems overwhelming when you are researching, but I'm finding they really don't take that much time. If you have a beekeepers club near you, you can rent honey extractors. We haven't harvested as our hive is still growing and they need 70 lbs of honey stores to make it through winter. A friend of ours has harvested honey and he says it's just takes a day. If you aren't ready to harvest when the box is full, you can just add another box and the bees will work on filling that. Then when you have the time, you remove the box and harvest.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Got a bunch of plums and apricots yesterday from my husbands grandmothers trees. They are a hair under ripe, so hopefully by Sunday I can make some jam. We are leaving Monday for vacation for a week.

 

[Olive Hill]

I have increased the recipe for preserves, and it takes a lot longer boil to set. I would think jams/jellies with pectin might be similar.

 

[micheller1210]

Got a bunch of plums and apricots yesterday from my husbands grandmothers trees. They are a hair under ripe, so hopefully by Sunday I can make some jam. We are leaving Monday for vacation for a week.

They are perfect for canning, being ripe or over ripe can cause jellies from setting, having a bit of the fruit green has a lot of natural pectin. and set beautifully, unless of course the boxed pectins have come along ways to get the job done. Happy canning

 

[Arielle]

Our peaches are still growing--for some reason they end up in the duck pond--the drops that is.Maybe my boys know why . . . hmm...


We have been considering honey bees too.

 

[rancher hicks]

I just found out I missed the Gooseberries and I'm not happy about it. They send me e-mail alerts but didn't send me one about Gooseberries. This is the first year since I planted bushes so there is none on mine. I do hope next year is better.

There were a few Red currants but something got them before they turned red. I suspect the chickens.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Apricot/Pineapple and Plum Jam finished.

 

[rancher hicks]

I'd like to do peaches but I don't have time now. Can I peel them and put them in the freezer for later? I've a few recipes I'd like to do but things are just to busy and I may go away for a month or two.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I don't see why not. I've frozen peach pie filling before.