What are you canning now?

[sonew123]

Call me lazy!!! I just bought this for the few times a year Ill pit my cherries!!!!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MSYWQW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Seemed great!!! Well see!!!

 

[Janiecoke]

I have canned 60 quarts of green beans, 47 quarts of squash in my freezer. I was late planting and so my okra and tomatoes just started. Picked 3 -5gal buckets of tomatoes yesterday and a 5 gal of squash. Gave the squash to a neighbor because I am sick of it. I canned 12 pints of squash pickels along with 26 pints of pool room slaw. The deer got most of my purple hull peas
Working on adding another 30 foot chicken pen, and put wire around the bottom this morning before it got so hot.

 

[sonew123]

60 QUARTS OF BEANS!!!! ???? I dont think we use ...eat...or buy but a few lbs a year!!L bleah!!! Lol


Hope you have a huge family!!!!!

 

[aceschix]

I have canned 60 quarts of green beans, 47 quarts of squash in my freezer. I was late planting and so my okra and tomatoes just started. Picked 3 -5gal buckets of tomatoes yesterday and a 5 gal of squash. Gave the squash to a neighbor because I am sick of it. I canned 12 pints of squash pickels along with 26 pints of pool room slaw. The deer got most of my purple hull peas
Working on adding another 30 foot chicken pen, and put wire around the bottom this morning before it got so hot.

Wowee! What do you do with that many Qts?

Good for you!!!

 

[holyhart]

My children actually have quite a few chores (this mostly applies to the oldest two ages 9 and 6) . They make their beds every morning, pick up their rooms, empty the dishwasher. The oldest helps her 3 year old sister pick out clothes for the day and then does her own quiet devotion time. After breakfast, the oldest two, often accompanied by the 3 year old (soon to be 4), let the chickens out and make sure they have food and water. When it is time to clean the coop, they do it together. I take the wheel barrel to the dump spot because they can't physically manage that without dumping it along the way.

2 mornings a week, my oldest makes breakfast. Scrambled eggs and sausage. The 6 year old is learning how to help make eggs...still working on cracking an egg without the shells getting in. At dinner time, they rotate who pours the drinks for everyone and who sets the table. They all (even the almost 2 year old) bring their dirty dishes to the sink and scrape anything that needs to be scraped. She will often ask if she can make sandwiches for everyone for lunch.

My 9 year old cleans the kids bathroom 1x a week, including scrubbing the toilet and washing the mirror (I do it 1x a week too). She is in charge of keeping the living room clean (putting away excess toys, papers, movies, arranging pillows, vacuuming etc.). And she helps fold laundry (she can't reach into the bottom of the washer in order to switch over the laundry...not sure I will be able to once the new washer comes!) My 6 year old is in charge of keeping the mudroom picked up, helps fold laundry as well). The 3 year old tags along with either of them or with me.

They often help me can or bake. They husk the corn whenever we have corn on the cob. They help me with both the veggie and flower gardens. Help me can. My oldest often asks if she can put her little sister to bed and read her the goodnight stories.

However, their standard of clean is not MY standard of clean. I find myself having to re-clean things they already clean. And they are children, so when I am doing "spring cleaning" or organizing my pantry or some such thing and they are stuck in the house since it is just TOO hot to play outside, they have turned the dinning room table into a covered wagon and the chairs into their horses pulling it. They will have all the "stuff" that goes along with their game. Do they get sidetracked and forget to pick it up without being told sometimes...absolutely!

I don't except foolishness, but I do expect childishness.

 

[holyhart]

Just found this thread! Hooray!

I am making my first ever salsa as I am new to canning and doing up some blackberry jelly is what got me started.

Until then I was totally afraid of killing off my family by canning.

But I have found a local wild blackberry patch and I saw those berries ripening up and just couldnt let that go to waste.

Now, I just got 15 lbs of beautiful tomatos out of the garden and I can't see them going to waste either and a person can only eat so many dehydrated tomatos! LOL

Wish me luck.

Hi and welcome!

As Ace's said, canning is very addictive!

 

[holyhart]

60 QUARTS OF BEANS!!!! ???? I dont think we use ...eat...or buy but a few lbs a year!!L bleah!!! Lol
Hope you have a huge family!!!!!

I have canned 60 quarts of green beans, 47 quarts of squash in my freezer. I was late planting and so my okra and tomatoes just started. Picked 3 -5gal buckets of tomatoes yesterday and a 5 gal of squash. Gave the squash to a neighbor because I am sick of it. I canned 12 pints of squash pickels along with 26 pints of pool room slaw. The deer got most of my purple hull peas
Working on adding another 30 foot chicken pen, and put wire around the bottom this morning before it got so hot.

60 qts of green beans....between the regular green beans with dinner and the spicy gingered green beans I make...we could most definitely go through 60 qts in a yearn I think.

 

[holyhart]

Call me lazy!!! I just bought this for the few times a year Ill pit my cherries!!!!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MSYWQW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
Seemed great!!! Well see!!!

fancy!

 

[Olive Hill]

Our family of four goes through a LOT of green beans. It's one of our favorite veggies so we eat them a lot -- most weeks at least once with dinner, plus lunches, soups, green bean casserole at various holidays... 60 qts is really only one per week and 8 extras.

 

[vfem]

Kinda bummed with the green beans... they are all chewed up and rubbery now!

I barely got any out of all those pole bean vines. Very bummed.

I did manage to get some more salsa done last night. I at least have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year to make up for the lack of cukes and beans!

(Black beans are going strong though, so can't complain I'll get to dry those and put them up for chili over the winter.)