Preserving journals
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Chilli Jalapeno 'Summer Heat' Preserved and West wall garden
08 Sep 2012
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So many tomatoes going soft before we can eat them – time to get preserving. First batch of passata made – 3 half litre jars by cold water bath method. Jalapenos – a 1 litre jar – pickled. Not done this before so am experimenting with recipe found on the web. Used: 2&...Sunny 20°C / 68°F -
Vegetable & Fruit garden and Cucumis sativus - Cucumber Preserved
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Sep
2012
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Sunny 25°C / 77°FThis was the first time I have ever tried making pickles. The only other canning I have done was to make jam last year. I used Hotwired’s recipe that he posted here on Folia. It wasn’t hard, but it was a bit labor intensive, and definitely utensil intensive! But anyway, although I hav...
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Radish 'Bouquet Mix' Harvesting, Lettuce 'Black Seeded Simpson' (2012) Harvesting, Lettuce 'Gourmet Lettuce...
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Jun
2012
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Rainy 22°C / 72°FThe 2012 Preserving has started! Today I canned seven 500mL jars of elderflower syrup. I also had a little over a litre left to put in the fridge. In the end I settled on adding a total of 6 tsp citric acid to my tripled recipe (i.e. I doubled the amount of citric acid) which made the syrup read ...
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Elderberries Harvesting
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Jun
2012
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Sunny 35°C / 95°FLast year I made elderflower syrup for the first time. I had never tasted it before, so I made a small batch, knowing that if I liked it I would have to ration for the year. I did like it, and though I was able to ration it (I actually still have a small amount left in the fridge) I wanted to mak...
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Apple Tree Preserved
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Mar
2012
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Sunny 18°C / 64°F
Last fall I juiced some of the windfall apples with the hopes of making my own apple cider vinegar. Several months on, I think it’s time for an update.
The verdict: success.
To turn apple juice into vinegar you first turn the cider (fresh apple juice if you live somewhere where the term cid...
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Aji Pineapple RedX (Earthbox #4) Preserved, Aji 'Rain Forest' (Earthbox #3) Preserved, Aji 'Rain Forest' (E...
15 Oct 2011
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Cloudy 27°C / 81°F
The 28 lbs of tomatillos, minus what we gave to friends, etc., are now chopped and preserved as Tomatillo salsa.
The recipe is from the Ball Blue Book guide to preserving 100th anniversary edition page 82.
The peppers that we used were Aji Rain Forest and Aji Pineapple Red X. We ended up making 1...
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Chilli "Orange Habanero"
13 Oct 2011
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Cloudy 17°C / 63°FSimple, but delish… 100g Orange Habaneros 2tbsp Cider Vinegar 1/2 tbsp Fish Sauce 3 Cloves Garlic 1/2 a thumb sized piece of Ginger Blitz everything in a blender until REALLY smooth Pour into sterilized jar If you wanted, you could sweeten it a little, but I don’t think it needs it Ma...
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Tomato "Gardener's Delight" , Tomato "Minibel" , and Tomato "Latah"
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There’s only so much Chutney you can make… So I tried this: Spicy Green Tomato Ketchup 1 kg green tomatoes 1 small onion 2-3 large cloves garlic (more if you like garlicky sauce) Chillies (as many as you fancy) Whole spices tied in muslin: • 1/2 tsp. cloves • 2 black cardamoms, s...Rainy 18°C / 64°F -
22 Sep 2011
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End of garden clean-up part 1 and SFG question (at the end)
Basil replants Flowering, Basil 2 Budding, Melon, honeydew 'Jenny Lind' Dying, Melon, cantaloupe 'Hearts of...It’s been WAAAAYYY too long since I updated, and a lot has happened in the garden since July/August. Amidst the destination wedding planning madness, I’ve managed to can as much tomato sauce, bruschetta, salsa, pickles, grape juice, and even some homemade ketchup that I could before ...Storms 26°C / 79°F -
Rheum rhabarbarum - Rhubarb Preserved and Rubus strigosus - Everbearing Raspberry Preserved
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Sep
2011
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Sunny 19°C / 67°F
It was easier than I thought and I think I did a pretty good job. I made two batches of jam today, with water bath processing. The first time I have ever tried canning.
I made one small batch of Raspberry, totally from berries picked from my bush over the past few weeks. This made 5 half-pint jar...
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Cucumber Diamant F1 Harvesting, Courgette Black Beauty (divided) Harvesting, Courgette Black Beauty Harvest...
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Windy 19°C / 66°FQuite a lot more tomatoes harvested today, the heaviest being the ‘Vintage Wine’ – see main pic. I’ll wait for a few more of the fleshy type before making passata – the machine arrived in today’s post from Seeds of Italy. The ‘Koraliks’ harvested a...
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Pickling Cucumber 'Jackson Classic' Preserved, Pickling Cucumber 'Pioneer' Preserved, Cucumber 'Ultra Pak' ...
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Sunny 29°C / 85°FAlthough we don’t have a lot of one thing, all together we have more than we can eat fresh, so we are experimenting with different pickling recipes this year. The tomatillos are prolific this year, so we are trying some tomatillo salsa that we haven’t tried before. We also have some J...
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DS 2 dropped off some plums from the tree in his garden – no idea what sort – so made: 7 jars of jam 2Ls bottled (canned) and enough left for a plum and apple crumble tomorrow. Also pickled 1L small cukes. I have the spiced pickling vinegar made up ready so as soon as there are e...Sunny 25°C / 77°F -
Tomato 'Koralik' (divided) Harvesting, Radish Winter, Black Spanish Round Thinning Out, Sprouting Chinese C...
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Overcast 20°C / 68°F
We’ve had a lot of rain just recently – good news for the beans and leafy greens – causing a lot of tomatoes to split. This poses a problem for seed saving as some of the designated fruit has split which means I can’t leave them on the plant until really soft or they will ...
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Courgette "Green" , Chilli "Cayenne" , Chilli "Aji Crystal" , Tomato "Gardener's Delight" , Tomato "Minibel...
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Inspired by a phone call from my mother (who was making “Marrow Rum” this afternoon: No, I have no idea what that actually is) I decided to have a little look at my random harvests, and see what I could put into jars Tomatillo, Tomato and Courgette Chutney (a big and a small jam jars ...Rainy 18°C / 64°F
