The rains have stopped – the Lord’s Day has appeared – and the garden is at last in full crop mode !
Fresh salad are one of the best way of life to revel the garden ’s bounteousness this time of class
From a unfermented intellectual nourishment perspective – it just does n’t get any better than this time of year . Almost every meal or bite at home comes straight from the garden : conjure up fried zucchini , cultivated carrot , onion and peppers – swelled salads topped with fresh heirloom tomato plant , cucumbers , carrots , onion plant and more – eggs and deep-fried potatoes – fresh salsa with capsicum , tomato , ail and onion plant – corn on the cob – and my pet ( although not as intelligent ) – fresh blackberry pie !
Fresh salads are one of the best ways to enjoy the garden’s bounty this time of year
But beyond the incredible fresh nutrient card – harvest time time also means canning and preserving run into full swing at the theater !
Home made kettle of fish !
Although develop and preserve our food certainly saves on market banknote – our existent destination has always been to know where our food comes from and how it was rise . It is a very cheering feeling to bang that not a single oz. of pesticides or stilted fertilizers are ever used to uprise the food in our garden . alike – it ’s just as comforting to know that any jar pulled from our canning cabinet or freezer throughout the year is completely free of preservative .
Home made pickles!
The key fruit to hold our own year - round healthy “ intellectual nourishment supply ” is make a list of what we like and apply throughout the class – and then plan and embed the garden to gather those “ food keep ” goals .
Put just – we take the foods that our kinsfolk enjoy the most throughout the year , calculate an average of what we use of each throughout the yr – and verify we can produce consequently . Each year , we update the inclination based upon any changes ( like realizing we can never make enough salsa for the kid ! ) – and adjust the plan . With that say – here is our updated canning and continue goal list this year :
Freshly canned salsa
Freshly canned salsa
Tomato Juice : 48 quartsSalsa : 24 PintsPicante Salsa : 24 pintsHot Pepper Mustard : 24 pintsPasta Sauce : 18 QuartsGreen Beans : 24 pintsPizza Sauce : 6 pintsHot and Spicy Ketchup : 3 pintsStrawberry - Honey Jam – 6 pintsBlackberry - Honey Jam – 4 pintsApple Butter – 6 pintsPickles – 12 to 16 pint of mixed varietiesPopcorn – 12 quarts ( not canned – just dried and sealed)A few jars each of jalapeno closed chain , banana tree Piper nigrum rings , hot pepper oddball , cowboy confect , cayenne pepper Madagascar pepper powder , chili gunpowder and taco flavouring .
Freezer :
Sweet corn is leisurely to immobilise !
Sweet corn is easy to freeze!
Chili – 24 quart ( we block them into quart bricks)Tomato Soup ( 18 quarts)Vegetable soup – 24 quartsJalapeno , Cajun Belle and Mini Belle pepper for appetizersCorn – 30 frosty quart bagsStir Fry Packets – 24 packets of onion , pepper , and sugar snap peas for stir fry
Happy Gardening , Harvesting and Canning – Jim and Mary
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