WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

[Hinotori]

Lot's of choices too

 

[treerooted]

So way back when I saw these shirts I was with a friend, and I immediately lost it because of it's punnyiness and cannyness. She's like "oh I like that". I gush some more and it takes her quite some time before she..."oh, because I CAN!" Lol. Did not make the connection to the picture at all. Maybe I'll get us matching ones for xmas

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Love it!

 

[CrealCritter]

Ok I think I got it now Lol! Baker Creek is most of those pics. Sunflowers and taters I grew..

When do you know when sunflowers are done and ready to seed? I'm raising a few for my chickens. They do back flips for sunflower seeds.

 

[CrealCritter]

I'm not much of a canner - I mainly babysit the water bather or pressure canner for my wife. But I like fermenting... beer (I don't hardly drink beer anymore), pickles, cabbage, etc... I just sat down from putting together approx 2x 4 gallons of hot dill garlic and regular garlic dill pickles.

Here's hot garlic dill pickle spices (cherry leaves, dill heads, garlic, habenero & mustard seeds)
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Pickles in 5 gallon food grade bucket
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And pickles held under salt water brine with a dinner plate, 1/2 pint canning jars and the screw top lid.
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Update approx 2 weeks later. Had to skim a little white scum off the top of the hot pickles once. The regular dills had no scum form on top of the brine.

Opened up both to replace the plates and for a taste test

Hot dill pickles - see the habenero flakes floating in the brine.

Regular dill pickles

Sample pickles took. Hot dill pickle on left, regular dill pickle on right.

Sliced and taste tested - they have about 2 more weeks to go... They are about 1/2 sour now. We like them much more sour than this. But they are good and crunchy which is really good

Back under the brine you go for 2 more weeks you little delectable pickles - get good and sour now

 

[tortoise]

7 pints of blueberry lemonade concentrate yesterday.

 

[CrealCritter]

7 pints of blueberry lemonade concentrate yesterday.

Pictures - we must see pictures

 

[baymule]

When do you know when sunflowers are done and ready to seed? I'm raising a few for my chickens. They do back flips for sunflower seeds.

When the wild birds start eating them.

 

[lcertuche]

Those pickles are gorgeous. I've wanted to try my hand at brined pickles sometime. Here is pictures of some of my watermelon jelly. It didn't set up much. My son will still love it on pancakes or ice cream.

I used Certo for the batch pictured and did a few freezer jars using Ball Instant Pectin for freezer jelly but neither set up worth a hoot. I never do well without plain ole old fashion SureJell. Watermelon is low acid so I added lime juice and boiled it with the peels for extra acid (and flavor). It was not good watermelon at all but taste pretty good with the lime and sugar. I also dehydrated some which was downright good but the Wildbunch ate it before I could even package it up.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

It sure is purty!