WHAT ARE YOU CANNING TODAY?

[NH Homesteader]

I HATE electric can openers! So obnoxious.

 

[Mini Horses]

Bay, your tomatoes are awesome to see!

I picked my first grape tomatoes this AM....while not as huge, they were first homegrowns in 4 yrs, so I am thrilled. Lots more on the vines. I carried them inside to take a pic for remembering....promptly ate them!

I cropped the pic to make them look bigger

 

[Beekissed]

Today I canned tomatoes. This year, I am growing the biggest, prettiest tomatoes I have ever grown! I canned Cherokee Purple tomatoes into spaghetti sauce and got 6 pints. I canned the Rosso Sicilian into sauce and got 4 pints. I poured the water off both batches and canned that tomato water for cooking water and got 6 pints.

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Very pretty, Bay! Do you think the BTE method is causing these large and lush tomatoes for you? You oughta enter that one in the P of the W!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I cropped the pic to make them look bigger

HA! I love that!

 

[tortoise]

I canned 5 half-pints of blueberry syrup. I also made 2 half pints of cblueberry-cinnamon freezer syrup. Our garden is not producing much of anything this year, but our blueberries are thriving! Lots of blueberry canning in my near future - too much to freeze.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Nice!! Have you tried dehydrating any? Might be less labor intensive!

 

[lcertuche]

I've thought about buying blueberries from the Dollar Tree and dehydrating for muffins and pancakes.

 

[treerooted]

I neeeeed to get the strawberry jam done. They are passed their prime. I took the best ones for freezing but I need a block of time without the toddler so I can make sure the water bath timing doesn't get interrupted. And I'm also so tired in the evening!

 

[tortoise]

Nice!! Have you tried dehydrating any? Might be less labor intensive!

Yes! I used all the berries I dehydrated last year and wished I had more!

I came back to comment that my freezer syrup set up into jam.

 

[lcertuche]

Yummy jelly. Of course if you heat it up you can still pour over pancakes or ice cream. I still have a lot of frozen strawberries I need to make into jelly. I might try dehydrating some.