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Post by solargeek on Sept 2, 2020 2:28:07 GMT
12 pints sweet sour beets! Yum. And dehydrating 5 more trays sundried tomatoes.
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 2, 2020 2:33:25 GMT
18 pints hot salsa
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 3, 2020 15:34:27 GMT
6 pints pickled peppers 18 pints tomato sauce
I'm running low on lids. Was hoping, with this bumper crop of tomatoes, to also put up tomato paste and tomato juice this year. But I need to have enough lids for the rest of the green beans (we prefer them canned rather than frozen), as well as pears and hopefully applesauce.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Sept 3, 2020 19:30:03 GMT
6 quarts of V-6 juice, one quart of whole tomatoes
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Post by oma2three on Sept 4, 2020 4:35:08 GMT
Not today ,but yesterday I canned 8 jars of tomatoes.Hoping tomorrow I will be able to can vegetable juice. Would love to freeze it ,but all freezers are full.
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Post by susannah on Sept 6, 2020 16:34:36 GMT
Four more pints of dilly beans.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Sept 7, 2020 3:11:49 GMT
Six pints of raspberry juice.
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Post by solargeek on Sept 7, 2020 3:31:07 GMT
7 pints tomato sauce with a new to me recipe from The Prairie Homestead cookbook. In her blog she said that it followed all safe WB canning (I also checked) and to add acid. YUM what a great sauce. I have all the makings for 7 quarts of it tomorrow. I have been splitting up "making" from canning. So today I did all the pre-work of washing, cutting cooking and seasoning and then the hardest, de-seeding the sauce. It is in the fridge and tomorrow I will can it. I have 2 more batches of tomatoes ready to be cut but am thinking I would like some not so acidic salsa recipes. I hate the ball canning one.
Busy time. But I am restocking all my sauce needs for 2 years Praise God. And it wasn't too hard to put in and care for the 400 tomato plants. Now, digging up the potatoes may kill us both.... But they are soooo tasty (yukons and reds only).
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 9, 2020 2:25:11 GMT
Since Saturday: 1 quart & 1 pint dill pickles 7 pints dilly beans 10 half-pints tomato paste 9 4-ounce jars tomato paste 2 pints wax beans 10 pints green beans
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 11, 2020 0:43:22 GMT
8 pints mild salsa.
This is the last batch of salsa for the year; conserving lids for other things. I'll keep making fresh salsa (we've gotten into quite a habit of snacking on chips and fresh pico the last few weeks) as long as the garden keeps producing tomatoes and peppers.
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Post by dw on Sept 11, 2020 0:51:53 GMT
I did piccallili 2 days ago and apple sauce today.
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Post by susannah on Sept 11, 2020 16:07:34 GMT
4 quarts of vegetable broth.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Sept 12, 2020 3:31:42 GMT
7 quarts or tomatoes and 5 pints of pineapple zucchini.
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 12, 2020 11:07:26 GMT
15 quarts tomato juice
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Post by susannah on Sept 13, 2020 14:59:16 GMT
4 quarts of chicken broth.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Sept 14, 2020 0:30:10 GMT
7 quarts of tomatoes
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Post by Woodpecker on Sept 14, 2020 1:44:32 GMT
Wow all you ladies are amazing!!! Such hard work with such happy end rewards! Makes me smile 😊
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 15, 2020 0:50:04 GMT
3 pints dilly beans 4 pints green beans
Had some chilly nights lately. Beans still putting out blossoms but growth has slowed down. Hoping to get a dozen more pints put up, we'll see if weather cooperates.
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Post by susannah on Sept 15, 2020 14:36:02 GMT
Wow all you ladies are amazing!!! Such hard work with such happy end rewards! Makes me smile 😊 Woodpecker, My husband is the one who does the bulk of the canning. He grew up in a family where they did a lot of canning whereas home canning did not happen in my family. My mom was so impressed when we started canning because it was something she'd never done (and to be honest, never wanted to do). One of my grandmothers did very limited canning - plum jam and caponata (eggplant relish) - apparently she liked canning purple things. I mean, I assist, I prep, I chop, etc. but the heavy lifting - and babysitting the pressure canner - that's all on dh. He seems to be the only one in his family who is carrying on with the canning recipes - one sister used to but then said "I'm too old for this", the other sister never canned as an adult. But this year, one of our nieces asked for grandma's crock pickle recipe, and hinted that she might also be open to water bath canning as well. We helped our son and daughter-in-law can pickles five years ago, but with two very active children - including one who is the most accident prone child I've seen - they've decided it's much easier to raid our canned goods at this stage of their lives.
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Post by Woodpecker on Sept 15, 2020 15:06:39 GMT
I'm surprised SUE, but that's awesome DH is into canning!!!! Although I was brought up on a small farm, lots of veggies. We lived in my grandfathers house. He was a hard core gardener and after he passed my dad did his own gardening. We always had fresh veggies, but I don't recall any canning or freezing of them. I wasn't brought up that way, so I haven't started....certainly not going to now.
I honestly do give you all credit for your hard work, it sounds like its tough, but pays off richly at the end.
I just had to finally write you all that note, because I can't wait to see what everyone's done when I get on here. I'm impressed with ya'll.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Sept 16, 2020 2:24:40 GMT
9 pints of diced tomatoes. When I was growing up my mom and I canned all summer. Something like 100 quarts of green beans, 75 quarts of tomatoes, dozens of jars of pickles and sauerkraut. We would raise 100 baby chicks and process them onto fryers for the freezer. A job I detested. We had a very large garden back then and now I have big garden too, but a bit more variety. Just cannot take the farm out of the girl.
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 16, 2020 22:26:57 GMT
I am officially done canning tomatoes this year--just as soon as this last batch of tomato paste comes out of the canner in a little bit.
Yesterday I cooked down a bushel of paste type tomatoes. Took the first 7 quarts of juice from that and canned it. Put the rest of the juice aside to finish boiling down into paste.
This afternoon I've been boiling that. Ended up with 7 half-pints and 7 four ounce jars of tomato paste. Should keep us good for the coming year.
I still have more tomatoes. Debating if I want to chop and freeze them. . . The chest freezer is pretty full, and deer season is coming up soon (for dh, season starts Oct 1st with bow hunting). If hunting is good, we might have to plug in the upright freezer too, in which case I'd have plenty of room for frozen tomatoes. Decisions, decisions. 😉
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Post by dw on Sept 18, 2020 20:39:30 GMT
Ketchup...my family LOVES this. I do wish my tomatoes would have produced more. Tomorrow we're going to dig potatoes...that's always a guess until you dig them.
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Post by susannah on Sept 19, 2020 17:36:33 GMT
Okay, this isn't a "canned" thing per se. But we did take the 10 pound cabbage we bought at the farm store ($1.50 per cabbage regardless of size) and turned it into a small crock of sauerkraut. By that I mean we (and by "we" I mean dh) chopped it up, salted it, and crocked it. It won't be canned - we'll refrigerate it in jars when it's done - but I wasn't sure if a whole new thread called "What did you ferment today?" was necessary.
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Post by farmerjack on Sept 21, 2020 5:24:20 GMT
Processed 14 quarts of grape juice today. Table grape plants is all I have any more, but they make very good juice. Often mix 50/50 with apple juice when I open a jar. Tree Top apple juice corporate plant is here so buy at their company store, when they have a sale going.
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 21, 2020 12:29:43 GMT
Canned the last batches of peppers yesterday. I had picked them all Friday evening so that was less plants I had to cover as frost was predicted. And it frosted good!
6 pints + one 1/2-pint pickled peppers 6 pints jalapenos
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Post by krisinmi on Sept 23, 2020 23:59:39 GMT
12 pints pickled beets
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Post by krisinmi on Oct 16, 2020 1:54:46 GMT
Mil had a pig butchered and saved the fat for me. Today I rendered it, and ended up with 10 pints of lard.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Oct 18, 2020 5:00:04 GMT
Canned up 5 quarts and 1 pint of Asian pear juice.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Oct 19, 2020 1:20:21 GMT
Canned 10 pints of diced tomatoes. And I am officially done canning for the year.
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