I think every year I am enjoying canning more and more. Especially when my girls help or my mom is here to enjoy it with me. This year I am trying to do some new stuff too, trying to the the most out of our garden and all the fresh fruits and produces that are available in our area.
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| Our Garden this year. |
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| Garden 2012 |
New stuff tried this year so far...sweet pickles, sweet relish, pizza sauce and potatoes.
Potatoes : 28 quarts...16 whole and 12 cubed
Green Beans : 80 quarts and 21 pints
Sweet relish : 13 pints
Sunshine Dills : 1 gallon, 6 1/2gallon, 16 quarts
Sweet pickles : 24 quarts and 1 pint
Bread and Butter pickles : 4 quarts and 4 pints
Salsa : 36 quarts and 13 pints
Hot Salsa : 6 quarts and 26 pints
Pizza sauce : 11 pints
Spaghetti sauce : 23 quarts
Corn : 29 quarts froze
Blueberries : 1 gallon froze
Grape juice : 22 quarts and 1 pint
No jelly made this year we did so much last year so we still have Elderberry, blueberry and wild grape jelly.
Here are a few pics from the garden and canning season.
I took a few pics of our tomatoes because the past two years we had blite (sp?) on the tomatoes so this is wonderful me me to see.  |
| salsa here we come... |
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| This is a nice pic before the kitchen is covered... making salsa. |
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| Green beans, our family favorite! |
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| My helpers, washing is so fun to them.. |
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| My Annie |
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| Olivia shocking the tomatoes. |
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| Salsa...we eat alot of it, plus my Dad does too. I love sending him home with some. |
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| Garden pickers, this pic is funny to me because Allie has to dress nice to go to the garden, Olivia is still half in her pjs. |
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| Love the colors.. |
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| Peppers and tomatoes. |
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| Pickles |
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| Blueberries, small this year but still tasty! |
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