My family and I have taken a new road of canning this year trying new things and techniques. No longer do we can only apple sauce, peaches and the occasional pear or apple pie filling, no that wasn't quite enough!! We added a pressure canner to our collection of kitchen gadgets which has opened up a whole new realm of possibilities, so far we have only canned corn and green beans and some stewed tomatoes with it, but the possibilities are endless!! Hehe :) I have tried my hand at pickled beets, green chili sauce, rhubarb raspberry sauce, some new jam blends and pickles as well. So far I am receiving rave reviews as things are opened up and tried for the first time. Yummy's abound!
I must say that my garden this year has been fruitful. Not only did I increase (with the loving help of Jason) the size 4 times to a whopping 40x60 but I added some new plants to the mix as well. We did 3 rows of Corn, 5 rows of Green beans, 3 rows of sugar snaps, Beets, Swiss Chard, Kohlrabi, Cabbage, Broccoli, Bok Choy, Carrots, Lettuce, Cucumbers Pickling and Salad, Yellow Crookneck Squash, Pumpkins, Tomatoes, Sunflowers and radishes. I have the tomatoes, sunflowers, pickling cucumbers and some of my herbs over in the chicken planter that wraps around the chicken yard. All that to say, boy 5 rows of green beans may have been a bit much :)!! Hubby and I canned 35 quarts tonight that added to our current number of 57 quarts! What does that add up to, I'm going to have to stop typing for a minute so I can figure it out as my poor brain is being stubborn...... 92, is it 92, really?? OMGoodness.... 104 would be enough for 2 quarts a week for a year! Good thing we like green beans :)
The corn is getting ready, the lettuce is about done and the beets are ready for their final harvest as well. I think the carrots need to be thinned and canned as well.... But we are starting school tomorrow, so my canning ventures will have to wait for afternoon at least, or perhaps the weekend. Ugh.... too much canning. I always look back as December approaches and think "Whew, am I glad that canning season is over....." But this year will take the cake for the most canning we have ever done. I have purchased some new jars, and have had a few given to us.... And I am officially out of regular mouth quarts, thanks to the green beans.... I need to get more jars so I can do my apple sauce and the box of peaches that are ripening on top of the fish aquarium :)
Hubby also built me a really nifty canning closet to store all of our canned goodies! There was no way that all these jars were going to fit in my pantry, nice as it is! Sorry if this is a bit scattered, it's getting late and I am finishing up those silly green beans! But, I'd better go for now.
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