What are you canning now?

[ducks4you]

3 pints of beets this morning. I'll leave them in the canner and put away tonight. You can do that...when you CAN, in case you didn't know. =b

 

[mythreesons]

3 pints of beets this morning. I'll leave them in the canner and put away tonight. You can do that...when you CAN, in case you didn't know. =b

Do the beets taste just as sweet after you can them? I just bought some beets from a farm stand and they are the best tasting beets I've ever eaten in my life..so I bought more since I can't seem to grow them big enough and froze them.

 

[ducks4you]

Do the beets taste just as sweet after you can them? I just bought some beets from a farm stand and they are the best tasting beets I've ever eaten in my life..so I bought more since I can't seem to grow them big enough and froze them.

YES!!! Unless you can with a pressure canner, though, you will want to use a 1/2 and 1/2 vinegar + sugar mix with a water bath canner, which is what I do.
What I learned about beets is that a lot of people think that they are a spring crop and/or that you can only grow one crop/year. BOTH are wrong. I am replanting this weekend after two 15-20 pound harvests from the same 4 x 12 bed, which ALSO is growing okra. People will tell you that the big beets are tough. ONLY if you buy the big ones in the grocery store and they were picked a couple of months ago! Beets are an easy crop! Just make sure to keep them well watered for the first 3 weeks when they are germinating. You will see the beet partway above the ground, so you gauge the size before you pick. Work in compost and they will easily pull out of the bed.

 

[mythreesons]

Thanks ducks4you.

Today I canned 8- 1/2 pints pepper jelly.

 

[Nyboy]

Pepper Jelly

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Blackberry jelly 6 pints and elderberry jelly 12 pints and 12 pints elderberry jelly that did not set, so elderberry syrup.

 

[majorcatfish]

while i was gone last week the dw caned 8 pint and half jars of corn and 8 pints of enchilada sauce....

 

[Beekissed]

Doing tomatoes...making salsa and soup.

 

[baymule]

I finally got the pressure canner of my dreams, the All American 921

I had a pressure canner for the last 30+ years that I didn't like. I love my new All Amerrican! I canned chicken broth and chicken backs and feet for the dogs. Not in the pressure canner, but I canned 36 pints and 2 quarts of pickles and finished those up today.

 

[thistlebloom]

I have one too! haven't used it yet....