WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

CrealCritter said:
It comes back if you don't now it every week like my father in law did.
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When I moved my old garden to it's new spot, I took some rhubarb roots, but did not dig up the whole plant. It took 3 years of constant mowing to finally kill that plant!

Hubby took great delight in it's destruction. When it comes to all things green, he and I live in different worlds. His world: expansive lawn, without interruption of beautifying landscape details, or utilitarian details such as fruit trees, grape arbors, flower borders, veggie garden...

My world: Lawn serves only one purpose. That being to provide bushels of high nitrogen mulch for my landscaping and utilitarian needs.

I also had to beg rhubarb this season b/c I tore my garden down to bare bones for a "remake". I will tell you that the rhubarb that I used was no where as nice as the rhubarb from my own land. Flavor, texture, overall quality was lacking, even though it looked and smelled fine.
 
I put up four 1/2 pints of jam & two pints of syrup, from the blackberry juice I had made. Earlier in summer I picked wild blackberries from all over the farm & processed into juice for just this use.

Gotta say, it's good! I like less sugar than you find in commercial (& some homemade) jams/jellies. The fruit flavor is overpowered by "blah sweet". These -- you know you are having blackberries!! Not a huge amount but more than enough for me. Still have some 1/2 pints of nectarine and some fig preserves from last year. Just not a big eater of jelly. Prefer jams or preserves if eating them -- & still not a lot.

Have a lot of milk coming in -- MAY can a few pints, just to try that. Mostly I freeze it. Since goat milk is naturally homogenized, when frozen it doesn't separate badly like cow milk will. And it's time to make & freeze some cheese.

Have the gallon of elderberry juice for "use" later in winter, plus three 1/2 pints lightly sweetened, canned for use. Then 2 days ago -- could NOT help it -- picked some more!:idunno It's an obsession, I tell you. Had been "watching" a patch and they were so ripe and ready. Stopped and got them. Washed/cleaned, froze a quart of berries. Oh, I have another pint of dehydrated, also. :th Why do I feel I must have them at the ready? No reason, yet.
 
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I have a hubby like yours @Lazy Gardener . He obsesses about having a finely manicured yard. It is a lot to mow, and we need to mow around the house to keep the mosquitoes at bay, but at least he is a little better here than he was at our last place in WI. Unfortunately, the area aroudn teh chicken coop is on his mow-scope and the chickens have manicured yard to free-range in whenever I get a chance to let them out.
 
I think this classifies as canning. 10 bottles of Strawberry Wine 13.6% Alcohol By Volume and back sweetened to 1.020, as per my wife's taste buds.
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