canning gardening journals

• 14 Mar 2013

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  Getting Ready for Spring

  Microgreens: Lettuce 'Gourmet Lettuce Mix' and Artichoke Showing True Leaves
  We had a couple warm days early this week: by Tuesday I was able to pull the cabbage and kale plants from the porch planters and loosen the top four inches of soil or so. Some of it was still frozen in clods, and my hands were freezing, but it felt good to be working outdoors in the garden again....
  Partly Cloudy -9°C / 16°F
• 30 Sep 2012

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  Picking Peppers Picking Veggies

  Solanum lycopersicum -Tomato 'Roma' Preserved, Allium cepa - Yellow Onion Harvesting, Chili pepper 'Tam jal...
  So I thought after those really cold nights, everything would be gone. Not so… Still picking peppers. And found the first of the Jalapenos. They were hiding apparently, because until today, I thought the Jalapenos were no shows! And I found two more onions – there may be more, but I n...
  Partly Cloudy 18°C / 64°F
• 03 Sep 2012

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  Making Pickles

  Vegetable & Fruit garden and Cucumis sativus - Cucumber Preserved
  This 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...
  Sunny 25°C / 77°F
• 14 Aug 2012

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  More canning!

  Oregano Harvesting, Pepper (Sweet) "Pinot Noir" Harvesting, Tomato "Black Krim" Harvesting, Tomato "Yellow ...
  Made 3 more batches of pasta sauce with my tomatoes and herbs. Took a bunch of the scraps and made more vegetable stock for winter soup making. Despite the terrible drought, I’ve had a pretty good harvest so far and have been really preparing for the winter months. My BF works in the trad...
  Sunny 28°C / 82°F
• 15 Oct 2011

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  Tomatillos are all Canned

  Aji Pineapple RedX (Earthbox #4) Preserved, Aji 'Rain Forest' (Earthbox #3) Preserved, Aji 'Rain Forest' (E...
  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...
  Cloudy 27°C / 81°F

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