So....what all did you gardeners can this year?

C. Amick · Sep 9, 2018

I don't like to see anything in the garden go to waste that we have been blessed with. If we have too much, we try to give it away. We managed to can the following:

Green beans
Pickled yellow squash
Chow chow
Tomatoes, and
Salsa

The pickled squash sounds much worse than it tastes.

johnofnewhaven · Sep 9, 2018

Air. My garden was a disaster. Rain choked about everything out.

grandpa Love · Sep 9, 2018

400 tomato plants. 13 quarts put up. Terrible garden year. Froze many gallons of blueberries and blackberries. Fall garden coming soon.

Janicholson · Sep 9, 2018

Apple sauce Macintosh from out dwarf tree, and strawberries from around that tree, pie cherries from the neighbors yard, and rhubarb . Jim

johnofnewhaven · Sep 9, 2018

400 tomato plants??? Are you serious Grandpa Love?

GreenAcre · Sep 9, 2018

Agree to terrible gardening year... Have never made less. Hoping for the fall garden to help me out.... Have enjoyed fermenting seasonal veggies to "put up" the last few years instead of canning, pretty addicting actually if you've never tried it...

grandpa Love · Sep 9, 2018

Yep. We can 150-200 quarts a year. And love giving fresh ones away. I will find a picture of the garden from spring and post it.

johnofnewhaven · Sep 9, 2018

Wow! That's impressive!!!

grandpa Love · Sep 9, 2018

We like good food! My wife starts everything in the greenhouse. Family fun!

37chief · Sep 9, 2018

My wife canned 96 qts, and 51 pints of dill pickles. She also put up 50 small jams of different fruits. She sells the pickles at our local craft fair. She usually sells all but a few. I pick enough cucumbers to make 8-10 qts every three days, so it's not too bad. I am trying to get her to stop the pickles, as it's hard for me to plant, and pick on my knees. I pick, and clean the cucumbers she does all the rest. The wife gives the jams away around Christmas.Stan

coshoo · Sep 10, 2018

Canned- hot pickled cauliflower
Froze- broccoli, squash, green beans. Since I discovered the vacuum sealing system, I freeze about everything, much easier than canning. For most items, blanch for 1 minute in boiling water, then vacuum seal in a bag and freeze. Cook it while its still frozen, and it comes out almost like fresh.
Use from the garden over the winter- Carrots, beets, Swiss chard. We're in a mild climate (western Washington) where the soil doesn't freeze in winter.

4520BW · Sep 10, 2018

Canned 150 quarts of green beans.
Froze over 100 quart bags of corn.
A friend of my dads get corn and beans from us so he makes us pickles, I have about 50 pints of dill pickles from mild to real hot. I should note we grow the cucumbers that he uses. Think we had 20 plants this year.
We had an acre of green beans so the local church that serves free meals got about half what we grew.
Just mowed down the last of the sweet corn for the year 1.5 acres total.

larry@stinescorner · Sep 10, 2018

Didnt can anything this year.Did make some pickles in the fridge.Hope to get back at canning next season. Could you Send some pickled squash to Ultradog??,,as you say it is good ,I usually make it every year,,but didnt this year. (lol)

johnlobb · Sep 10, 2018

So far, 92 quarts of my tomato/green pepper/ onion mix, all out of our garden. 9 tomato plants this year, love the "Amish Paste" tomato.

Super92 · Sep 10, 2018

We canned a lot of tomatoes, several quarts of beets and a few pickled okra.

C. Amick · Sep 10, 2018

We still have beets, but I figured they are now too large to be any good. I was too busy with other stuff and never got around to canning them. I usually make pickled beets. My mom always said they get "woody' if yo let them get too large. Did you plant your beets late in the year?

flembo · Sep 10, 2018

Canned 30 quarts of Pickles and froze about 40 quarts of green beans,in another week or so we will be freezing winter squash, both Blue Hubbard and Butternut some we will keep as is. I would be interested in your recipe for Chow Chow if you care to share,I had some in Nova Scotia this summer and liked it so I found a recipe online and tried it but it wasn't even close

oldtanker · Sep 10, 2018

What? You guys eat that stuff? I feed it to the pigs then I get bacon! Bacon tastes a lot better!

Rick

C. Amick · Sep 10, 2018

I got my recipe off the Internet as well and the sugar amount was not correct. I had to add a lot more sugar and re-can my first batch. The chow chow recipes call for the vinegar to be full strength, so you have to add almost as much sugar as you do vinegar. Here is the recipe after I adjusted the sugar amount. You may want to taste test it for your desired sourness.

4 cups chopped cabbage
2 cups chopped onion
2 cups chopped green peppers
2 cups chopped green tomatoes
4 cups vinegar
3 1/2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons mustard seed
2 tablespoons celery seed

Brine Mixture:
8 cups of water
1/2 cup of salt

Dissolve salt in the 8 cups of water and pour over chopped vegetables. Let it stand for at least one hour. Rinse and drain twice to make sure you removed all the salt.

Mix vegetables with sugar, spices, and vinegar. Simmer on low for 20 minutes. Bring to a boil and immediately pack into hot jars. Makes 5 pints.

rockyridgefarm · Sep 11, 2018

We did 7 quarts of french style green beans, 12 quarts of tomato juice, and about 40 quarts of chili tomatoes. We'll do applesacue this weekend. We use pint and a half jars for that. We'll also dig about 350 feet of blue, red, yellow, and white potatoes.

I used to do a great garden, but have fallen off pretty bad the past few years. Daughter is 12 and son is 9, so T hope that they take the reigns soon. they're very willing to help, but they need to think about just taking over...

C. Amick · Sep 11, 2018

We may make some applesauce, if we find the time. We also have some blue, red, and gold potatoes to dig. I think the red ones did the best this year. Last year the gold ones did the best.

So....what all did you gardeners can this year?

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