Showoff,lol. looks really nice I'm so jealous. Its fun to do the work and see the results ,huh? I bet your so proud.
They are so good right off the tree ,huh? We just stick ours in the freezer and they thaw out and taste great. Now I'm doing it to store bought lemons.
You ladies are amazing with the canning and preserving of your Harvest. I find it so interesting. When I did have my garden. we would pick baskets of tomatoes and the family would all pitch in to process them. Bottom line is we made a tomato juice, boiled it down. Then put the containers in the freezer. We have enough tomato sauce to last few months. We also parboiled eggplant and squash lay them out on a cookie sheet, then freeze them. When they were frozen we'd transfer them to an airtight container and re-freeze them. We never canned any food, we did talk about it but never got an opportunity to try it.
Thanks Tony but whatever works is good too. The kids and grand kids loved our canned beans .It surprissed us that our son and grandson ate them right out of the jar.Son eat sall over the world from Dubai Saudi Arabia to Switzerland.
I just had a taste test @Beth Gallagher .. @Marie Mallery @Tony Page they are still very nice ..sorry Beth nah not enough left to share We mainly eat the dried ones as snacks
That was 16 kg of fresh apricots on our drying rack which is an old screen door @Beth Gallagher @Marie Mallery I don’t use any chemicals in my garden so it’s what some refer to as organic garden
Nobody lived here since the early 50s when we bought the place and we haven't ever used chemicls here except on our hyfroponics we tried the organic but it just stunk too much. So we went to Master Blend for that but but flushed the reservour with it in it. We try to stay organic too. Right before I got sick I built a hugluculture pile thats not suppose to need any fertilizer once the logs and brush break down. I was weeding it when I had my stroke. Most people use heavy equipment but I did it by hand and hand truck. Daughter helped. Huglekultur mound ,
Nope, never had any interest in canning. I can find everything that fits my needs in the grocery store. I have family that cans, just never found it worth the effort and expense.
Thank you! I bought some 're-useable' lids on amazon. If they work, it might be worth the investment to buy enough for a season. They are quite pricey.
It would be a boring world if we were all the same wouldn’t it ?? My mother or any family members NEVER canned or even grew fruit when I was a youngster mainly because we grew up in a fairy desolate / dry isolated town , However I moved to a fruit growing area 500 km away from where I grew up and that spiked my interest of growing my own own fruit ,it was the first time in my life I’d left the town in my 25 years . I’d never even seen a actual apricot tree before I was 25 ( I’m 75 now ) . Then all the fruit canning factories stated closing because canned fruit could be bought cheaper from China than paying for the upkeep of the huge factories/ wages ect in Australia Now days where I live in South Aust I cannot find a can of fruit that’s not labelled made in China or Twain or the odd can that may say made in New Zealand but we all know it’s shipped to Australia from NZ but canned in China so with that thought I mind the day I can no longer can my own fruit is the day a I give up eating any preserved fruit
You are so right. When all the dogs seemed to be getting cancer, daughter started growing rabbits and making her own dog (and people) food. I have friends from China who have a restaurant. The don't want any imports from China although there isn't anything in stores that isn't made there unless you look really hard. The good thing about being 71 is that I have the time to do what I want. I even like weeding the garden two days after a good rain. I am with you on preserving food. It will be quite a while before you won't be able to DRY your fruit-- and they look fabulous!