What are you canning!

[mc1]

The tomatoes are pilling up, so I've been canning some of them.



Also, while it rained last night I pickled some jalapeno peppers for the first time.

[BrunoBlack]

Originally Posted by mc1

The tomatoes are pilling up, so I've been canning some of them.

Nice harvest Morgan. We have tomatoes coming out of our ears too. My wife has been making and canning peach chutney and relishes. Here is a sample of our load.

[mc1]

Originally Posted by Haasome

Nice harvest Morgan. We have tomatoes coming out of our ears too. My wife has been making and canning peach chutney and relishes. Here is a sample of our load.

Looks great. Nice variety. Mmmm, peach chutney. There used to be a peach orchard down the road (yup, in Nova Scotia), and sometimes they'd sell a big box of seconds for really cheap. So many peaches you didn't know what to do with them.

Are those tomatillos on the left? I used to grow those and make green salsa, but not so much anymore. Do you have peach and apple trees on your property? Is that 2 different varieties of peaches? Here there are old cherry, apple, and plum trees, which I used to think I would restore, but I never have. They're a bit of work, and I don't want to use pesticides which makes it harder.

Lots of tomatoes, beans, and cukes here, although the plants are dying back fast. It was quite dry in August.

[BrunoBlack]

Originally Posted by mc1

Looks great. Nice variety. Mmmm, peach chutney. There used to be a peach orchard down the road (yup, in Nova Scotia), and sometimes they'd sell a big box of seconds for really cheap. So many peaches you didn't know what to do with them.

Are those tomatillos on the left? I used to grow those and make green salsa, but not so much anymore. Do you have peach and apple trees on your property? Is that 2 different varieties of peaches? Here there are old cherry, apple, and plum trees, which I used to think I would restore, but I never have. They're a bit of work, and I don't want to use pesticides which makes it harder.

Lots of tomatoes, beans, and cukes here, although the plants are dying back fast. It was quite dry in August.

Yes, tomatillos will become green salsa, but we need to pick more. We have a few fruit trees. We don’t do very well with apples because trees are still fairly young. We picked a few apples at the University farm. Ours are not ready yet. Those are different varieties of peaches, but I couldn’t tell you what they are. We put netting over the trees, but they still get beat up by squirrels mostly. We don’t use pesticides, and we pay the price in output. We haven’t done cherries or plums at this house. Looks like we share interests

[skinnerb]

Here it's Chinook season, and I've got 14 pints so far in the pantry. 38 to go for my annual harvest.

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by Taylor814

It really means to process in a jar with heat. For example, you add hot jam to a jar that has been boiled, and then covered with a lid held on with a screw-on cap. As the jar cools, the lid "seals" as a partial vacuum is created between the top of the product and the lid. I'm sure this exists in the UK, but just with a different name?

Thank you - Here in old fashioned UK canning means to put something in a can - y'know like Heinz baked beans or soup etc.,
Strangely when we put stuff in glass jars (called kilner jars here) the process is called bottling! (equally daft) .

I don't bottle stuff, apart from beetroot thus far, I usually just put portions of veg in our two freezers.

Keep on bottling! - er, I mean canning!

[jseth]

I'm stil picking blackberries and freezing bags of them... looking at possibly the LAST picking today... sigh... love fresh blackberries!

Soon, the Italian plum tree in the front yard will be going off, so I'll wash and dry them, halve them and dry them in my oven (no food dehydrator). Last year I only got a couple of smaller ziploc bags full in the freezer, and they were great! Hoping to have much more this year.

I love it when the Autumn "snap" is in the air, late nights and early mornings... Fall is on the way... but, apparently, we're gonna have a few 90 degree days coming up soon... early Indian Summer!

[marty bradbury]

Originally Posted by mc1

The tomatoes are pilling up, so I've been canning some of them.



Also, while it rained last night I pickled some jalapeno peppers for the first time.

That's it, I'm moving to NS, my veggies never turn out like that. Beautiful!

[mc1]

Originally Posted by marty bradbury

That's it, I'm moving to NS, my veggies never turn out like that. Beautiful!

Hi Marty, this year was a good year, the spring had good weather and enough rain, no late frost, and I weeded a lot. Maybe I'll post a picture of my weed pile, I'm quite proud of it. It's about the size of an suv.

Tomatoes, beans, turnips, blueberries, and numerous other things grow really well here. But other crops are a real problem for me, either because of pests, not the right climate, or other issues. I've given up on a lot of those. But tomatoes are a favorite of mine, I think I grew 8 different varieties this year. I pruned out all the suckers which helped the yields. They're turning brown and dying back really fast now, but there are still a ton of tomatoes hanging there to ripen.

I somewhat envy the Washington climate, although I don't know it so well.

But we can always use fine people such as yourself in Nova Scotia!

[Jeff Scott]

What are you canning!

Laughter........

[FLRon]

This brings back a lot of wonderful childhood memories for me. Most everything we ate came from our garden and the surrounding briar patches. We also raised all of our own meat so there was the butchering to do as well.

As a kid it all seemed like a lot of work, which it was, but now 50 plus years later just to think of it brings a smile to my face.

[mc1]

Originally Posted by Jeff Scott

Laughter........

Ha! And worms and spring-coiled snakes. They don't can as much laughter as they used to.

[Jeff Scott]

Originally Posted by mc1

They don't can as much laughter as they used to.

Maybe that's part of the problem with today's world?

[mc1]

Originally Posted by Jeff Scott

Maybe that's part of the problem with today's world?

[Jeff Scott]

That was pretty wild!