As I've admittted before, my garden year started later than it
should. But it is good to finally have something in jars. I'm
small fry for this group, but enjoy that it exists.
Tonight's actual canning is just 14 pints of Blue Lake beans (a bit
more mature than ideal -- had to string them).
But I also have about 30 quarts of tomato puree heating on the
stove. I'm guessing after it cooks down, and I add meat, it will
make 12-15 quarts of pasta sauce. With life and work demands, that
will probably be canned next weekend.
Otherwise, I am sitting here, separating seeds from stems in a bowl
full of freshly cut, dry standing, dill seed heads. While my
cucumbers on hand are marginal, they are better than last batch,
so I hope for dill relish this weekend. Maybe in the morning.
it's so nice when things start coming in. we've been doing
pickles for a long time and are almost done with them for us
but other people want cucumbers as long as we can grow them so
we'll just take them around.
i'm assuming you are pressure canning the beans and
sauce?
tomatoes are just coming in. i think we'll be
pretty busy with those. rather large crop by the
looks of it.
songbird writes:
it's so nice when things start coming in. we've been doing
pickles for a long time and are almost done with them for us
but other people want cucumbers as long as we can grow them so
we'll just take them around.
As I somewhat worried, I didn't plant enough vines to have lots of
cucumbers all at once. So I probably won't get any pickles this
year, just mistake-based knowledge. But relish doesn't take too
large of a harvest.
I think I also made the same mistake with the beans. They are
coming in, but not really enough at once for good canning.
I guess that's what happens when you have a poor memory and skip
grwing something for a couple years.
i'm assuming you are pressure canning the beans and
sauce?
Oh, certainly.
Some day I'll get a pH meter and test the sauce to see where it
ends up. I'll still pressure can, but I'm curious.
tomatoes are just coming in. i think we'll be
pretty busy with those. rather large crop by the
looks of it.
Mine are coming in and trying to die all at the same time. I'm
treating it as if it is my nemesis -- tomato leaf spot -- but it
isn't acting quite the same.
The current batch of sauce can be
enough if it needs to be, but Iusually do two large batches --
August and September/October -- with lots of eating tomatoes in
between.
There are lots of green tomatoes right now. In fact, I've had to
pound in stakes to support a couple of the cages, since the plants
are so heavy.
Since I have them, I'm going to look through recipes for pickled
green tomatoes. Only one way to find out if I like them.
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