Canning well under way, pic of what I have so far!

[trunkman]

I'm into canning this year, big time Just getting into canning season, top shelf 29 jars baked beans, 14 jars chicken, 14 jars beef, next shelf 39 jars green beans from the garden, 8 jars dill pickles from the garden, 18 jars of bread n butter pickles from the garden, next shelf, 5 jars stewed tomatoes, 6 jars whole tomatoes you guessed it, from the garden, next shelf down, 3 jars pickled beets and 48 jars sweet white corn...

I just can't stop, I'm making more gardens to increase what I can can! This is so addictive, and I love the idea of shopping in my basement instead of the grocery store. :tools

 

[lesa]

Wonderful!!! Isn't it great to be adding instead of subtracting??? I was beginning to feel miserly as my stash shrunk! We usually freeze corn-do you prefer it canned?

 

[thistlebloom]

That's beautiful Trunkman! I'm very impressed by all you canners, I wish now I had paid attention to my mom when she canned instead of having dirt clod battles with the neighbor boys!
Someday when I grow up I want to be a canner...

 

[journey11]

Way to go, Trunkman! You're about to have that pantry all filled up. I got my pressure canner checked at the ag ext today and hopefully before too much longer I'll have something to can. It really is so nice to go "shopping" in your own pantry. You've got several square meals to pick from there. Just great!

 

[vfem]

I so hear you! Doesn't it just rock!!!!

 

[ninnymary]

I am so impressed by those of you who can do this. I've never learned and my garden is very small. I suppose I could buy stuff at the farmer's market if I felt so inclined. But that's the problem...I don't feel inclined. It just seems like so much work!:/

Mary

 

[wsmoak]

Great job! I used to spend summers with my grandmother in Missouri and she kept a huge garden. There was an entire second kitchen in the basement that was used for canning, not to mention a couple of gigantic chest freezers that got filled up. (They would also raise a steer, so each year, "Sammy cow" or whoever it was from the prior summer would be in the freezer!)

So far I haven't grown anything worth canning, but we have bought bushels of peaches and picked blueberries from a local farm and DH has put up many half-pint jars of preserves.

-Wendy

 

[gardentoad]

Your pantry looks great, being a guy I spent a lot of my time with my older brothers trying to work on cars, my mom and dad worked
Canning every year..it was great eating. I'm lucky that my wives mother canned and she learned a few things but it has been so many years.
We will both have to relearn just about everything..so looking forward to next year when the garden really gets going.
Retirement is great that we now have the time and desire.just not the money, and we feel that folks on fixed incomes are really going to be hit hard in the next few years.

Sorry to go on and on.



Don
In 107 temps

 

[Southern Gardener]

Awesome trunkman! I'll be getting a pressure canner pretty soon - hopefully my pantry will look like that next year. My garden is done for now.

 

[trunkman]

To all those who feel they don't know how to can, well, I tried my hand at it about 20 years ago by calling my mother and having her walk me through it, she walked me through the old fashioned way with the old ball jars with the rubber gasket and wax, wow that was work. Now though it's so much easier, ball jars, no wax, pressure canner, they all make canning easier. Last fall I decided to get back into it and bought a pressure canner that I knew nothing about and with a little bit of research and help from the All American pressure canner manual that they sent me with all the info I need to know about what has to be pressure cooked and the very helpful You Tube videos you will know everything you need to know about canning, it sounds alot more complicated than it really is, it's very easy, just time consuming.
The You Tube videos will tell you whether you need to water bath or pressure cook, that's the main thing you have to worry about. Low acid food needs to be pressure cooked, and high acid needs to be water bathed, it's that easy...
Thanks for all the compliments everyone!