Not sure this is the right place to put this if not guess you can move it. We can some things but no garden crops since we don't have that many anymore. We will be doing some canningin next couple weeks but it will be store bought lima beans. Meat is just too high now so not canning any meat. it takes 3 lb.s a qt. or one pound a pint.Haven't canned meat in 2 years or more.It cost almost $300 last time for enough to make it worth the time and effect.
I don't do any canning. It's just the 2 of us now and I'd rather just buy stuff from the grocery store. My sister lives on a farm in south GA and spends all summer "putting up" stuff in her massive freezers. I don't think she does much canning anymore, but she puts up pickles, tomatoes, salsa, and jellies in jars. The stuff they don't grow themselves they get from neighbors, who are always calling and saying "the corn (or whatever) is in, come and get some." She had 2 bushels of tomatoes being "blanched" last time I talked to her. I remember as a kid going with my grandma to the local canning factory, where people prepared their vegetables and had them canned in the facility behind the local high school.
I use to do a lot of canning but it's so much easier to freeze it that I only can jams and jellies nowadays.
I wish we could grow enough to can but can't anmore.We use to buy from local farms by the sacks and bushels but not anymore. We use a tailgater for our canning and it works great like it was made to for canner. We have a good one its an All American holds 14 quarts or 21pints. I hear lids are hard to come by now though but we have planty for now.
We have lots of storms here at times we lose power. We do freeze too but if we run out of gas we can't use gasolene to run generator.Don't like to store gas except small amounts. We als obuy extra can goods sometimes when they were on sale.
What I miss most about Georgia summers was boiled peanut season. I'd love to have a freezer full of goobers but raw peanuts are unheard of in this area. Also miss my grandma's gigantic muscadine grapevine that would be loaded down and a kid's paradise.
People sell boiled peanuts on roadsides down here. Now you made me want some! Wish they'd last I could send you some. Maybe you can order some online?
Agree. It's my favorite. Usually we go to visit my sister in July/August and bring home a bunch, as well as all kinds of other stuff she loads us down with. Unfortunately I haven't been able to travel this summer so I'll just have to do without.
Any of you seen this video,I think its so cute. I liked the movie Dangerous Minds from the original sound track too.
Yep me I can all our home grown fruit being apricots / peaches / plums @Marie Mallery I live in Australia so we are in winter now ,however I tried to buy a few more of my preferred canning jars online in preparation for next season but they are not available and the wholesalers have no idea when they may be able to supply them Ball mason jars
We have plenty of jars about 200 or more but the lids are not easy to get here.Can't reuse jars if you don't have lids. We have enough to can the beans and meat if we can afford to buy the meat its so high here. We can chicken bones for our dog they come out so soft and easy to chew for our old dog.