O/T how your canning season going

I just spent the last couple hours putting up 7 more Qts. I did another 3 QTs. of Salsa, 2 of pickled okra, and 2 Hot peppers. Ran out of pint jars so had to start using the quarts. Oh by the way I do use the tractor to be able to get the garden in
Hobby farm

My wife has canned relish, pickles and peaches and she froze a bunch of strawberries and blueberries.

Lady next doot just brought me a zunkinne bread. I give them tomatoes. To night--zucinne bread, fresh green beans, tomatoes and cat fish. Sorry to say the cat fish had to come from the store. This is a lot closer to old time tractors and life style than all that other miles of opinions.
Kennyp

I do 50 or more quarts of canned tomatoes every year. We use them in soups and spagts. I also do pickles and fruit. Canning is one of the last things I do that was taught by my moms people. There is no comparson except the cost of that food versus store bought canned food.Its too bad that skill will be lost to future generations.

Hello old.
This is our first batch.
We did 28 quarts, 22 sauce 6 quarts crushed.
4.5 baskets of plum tomatoes.
Guido.

Old, I'd be interested in your recipe for pickled okra. Been buying it in the store, and love it. My dad's family came from down around Lebanon, MO., so I guess I come by my taste for it honestly. Do you use any dill? Peppers? What kind? Thanks- Mike

I always have to do it a little at a time or my back and or knees will give out on my. Bad part of being disabled you can still do a lot of things but you have to do it slower and do smaller batch's of things. I done about 17 pints of relish so far over the summer another 11 or so pints of salsa and 8 or so of okra but I only do 7 jars at a time then stop for the day or I'll not be doing any thing for a few days

I do okra as a hot dill type. 3 cups water, 3 cups vinegar some dill weed and mustard seed to taste. 1 or 2 hot peppers. Bring the mix to a boil, cut and trim the okra after washing fill jars and then cover with the liquid mix and put in a hot bath for about 30 minutes for qt. and 15 for pints. Oh forgot garlic lol
Hobby farm

My wife, mom, and grandmother work together as a canning and freezing team. I am the planter, tiller, and picker in the operation. I for got how many quarts of green beans we put up this time. Don't do many tomatos any more. They did put up some spaghetti and salsa. I planted alot of sweet corn in the garden, 3 rows 30' long every week to ten days. We have had fresh corn any time we wanted it since mid June. I planted 6 rows 300' long along the late tobacco patch. I have picked and they have froze over 700 ears this week. I picked 250 for my aunt and cousin this morning. Sister in Law wants about 100 Monday morning.

I have done 26 quarts of dill pickles, about 20 quarts of spaghetti sauce a half dozen of pizza sauce, and about 35 quarts of green beans. Hope to get beans from the second planting, and do about 50+ quarts of tomatoes. Also getting ready to freeze more corn from the first planting. Still have the second and third to go. Plus I am getting some hot pepper butter soon.

Did good this year, wife made some jelly out of hot pepper and it"s real good. Something else new was salsa made from cherry tomatos...I"ll go try some now that I think of it.

We froze about 30 quarts of blueberries,20 quarts of cut off corn,25 or so quarts of tomatoes. 12 pints of relish and 12 pickled okra, 24 pints of bread and butter pickles. Ain't life great.

With all the rain, my garden this year was pitiful. What did come up got over grown with weeds because the kids just didn"t want to help weed, so I got PO"d and just plowed it under. I"m just working on putting roundup on all the hardy weeds that discing and dragging haven"t killed. I don"t can when I save vegetables, I freeze, it"s much easier.
I told the kids if they want to carve pumkins this year they will have to buy them out of their own money.

Let"s see, we started with strawberry jam and pie filling, than cherry jam and pie filling followed by 1 apple tree that all went into apple sauce, apple pie filling and apple butter. We have done 1 round of our tomatoes into salsa and bought a box of tomatoes to make salsa, bought 2 lugs of peaches and did peach slices, peach jam and peach pie filling. We are waiting on our 2nd round of tomatoes for more salsa, chili sauce and tomato juice. The pear tree should be ready in about a week or two and than after that the 6 other apple trees will be ready along with the plum trees for more sauce, apple butter, spiced pear butter and apple juice and plum something or other. I have have no idea of quarts and pints done. Wife says we have enough stewed tomatoes from last year to last us another year and should have enough corn from last year to last us as the sweet corn around here wasn"t the best and short lived this year. I would like to do some refrigerator pickles sometime and fresh zucini bread sounds wonderful. Will have to find some zuccini as we didn"t plant anythis year because of the wet spring. We also have elderberry juice left over from last year to make elderberry jelly. The wife stocks our pantry and the balance she has been selling at the local farmers market. Won"t make you rich but it is enough to cover our expenses.

Wil

Mike where are you in WA?? My daughter lives in Gram WA right now. She wishes she was back out here in Missouri but she isn't.

How do you do your peach jam? We tried freezer jam several years as did my mom years ago and its always the same results. It separates into a runny liquid. You need to buy zuchini!!!??? I've always said that a person should only be allowed to grow only one zuchini plant by law. Usually I'm leaving them on porches and ringing doorbells ast 3 am.

That will taste good this coming Winter. We canned and froze sour cherries. Canned tomatoes too. Hal

Hello old.
We do a lot of canning, beets is next.
We already made egg plants.
We need to do peppers yet: roast, pack, and freeze.
Plenty of farms around me, can go and pick in the field. We did hot peppers, ground, last year they should last 2 or 3 years.
Guido.

We basically follow the instructions that come with a pack of sure jell for cooked jams and jellys. We have also looked up how to make jams on the internet and followed those receipes. I can't find the specific instructoins for the one we followed but it came off the internet and was called farm stand peach jam. It is delicious. We had some problems getting some strawberry jam to set and we used it as ice cream topping. Boy was that good. Believe it or not but not a lot of people around here seem to have large gardens any more. The older generation can't handle gardening any more and the younger generations are to busy with work, kids etc to take care of them. Plus we are about 20 miles from a large Amish community and a lot of people just drive down there and buy produce at their stores and shops. They also have started a large produce auction this year. I guess even at 3.50 + gas it is still easier to drive down and buy it than to raise it. We tried growing zuccini last year and I think we harvested 2 zuccini for some reason and this year we didn't get any planted and I don't know anybody that grew any.

Wil

Wife Connie has been canning pickles, beets, tomatoes, all kinds of sauce etc. I packed 10 gallons of cabbage for kraut yesterday and a lot more to go. Sure tastes good in the winter.
Paul

I'm near Chehalis, which is about 40 miles south and a little west, from Graham. Graham used to be pretty rural, but now, of course, is becoming a suburb of Tacoma, so kind of losing its rural flavor. Sort of like most everywhere now- when the city folks come, they bring their city ways, and it usually ain't pretty. Thanks for the pickle recipe- I've kind of gotten hooked on the things, and need to make my own to avoid bankruptcy. Now, just gotta find a place to get okra in bulk. . . Western Washington isn't exactly a hotbed of okra production. . .