Autumnprairie's Journal>> NEW Update Today

[daisychick]

I'm glad to hear daisychick that someone else uses the water canner. I canned green beans, beets, and pickles this year using the water canner (but everything I read says to can veggies you MUST use the pressure cooker). I'm new to the canning. My grandmother is teaching me. It was much easier than I thought it would be - I'm hooked. In fact, I'm planning the fall garden with just stuff I plan on canning!!

You can use the water canner for things with high acid. The only green beans you should do are the ones with added vinegar like Dilly Beans to up the acidity. Plain green beans I do in the pressure canner. I am a stickler to the "safe" recipes and probably a little OCD on reading and re- reading the Ball Canning book.

it is only because we want everything right and perfect.

Yep! I get a little bit bossy when I am canning and I make my kids wash their hands before entering my Domain (the kitchen). I used to be so scared of all the bad canning stories I had heard. But really if you follow a tested recipe and keep things clean and sanitary it isn't so scary. I have canning OCD.

 

[autumnprairie]

You can use the water canner for things with high acid. The only green beans you should do are the ones with added vinegar like Dilly Beans to up the acidity. Plain green beans I do in the pressure canner. I am a stickler to the "safe" recipes and probably a little OCD on reading and re- reading the Ball Canning book.

it is only because we want everything right and perfect.

Yep! I get a little bit bossy when I am canning and I make my kids wash their hands before entering my Domain (the kitchen). I used to be so scared of all the bad canning stories I had heard. But really if you follow a tested recipe and keep things clean and sanitary it isn't so scary. I have canning OCD.

I want to can some more NOW!

 

[autumnprairie]

I learned how to pressure can this weekend. I now have the canning bug and have been trying to figure out what I want to can next.

my first tomatoes.

One of my hens got stepped on and is limping around I imagine she will be ok in a day or two, but I will be checking on her daily.

Miracle is getting bigger everyday and I did manage to grab some pics today at her night time feeding the only one she comes in fpr now since I dont want to be carried away by mosquitoes.

I am counting the days until I can get my milking equipment I am going to the Udderly EZ milker since I don't think I am striping their milk completely. It is in exactly 3 days until order day and counting

My garden is almost spent because of the no rain, I need to replant green beans and peas and some beans for my cool crops maybe some more tomatoes, anything else you would plant if ya could?

 

[Roll farms]

I'm replanting cukes, peppers, and tomatoes. Hoping to plant them in buckets to keep in the greenhouse once the frosts start....I want veggies through Nov. / Dec.

Miracle looks good.

Be careful w/ your Udderly EZ milker....unless they've changed the design, the plastic arms that hold the bottle break very, very easily, esp. when cold / brittle.

 

[marlowmanor]

Your tomatoes look good. Miracle is growing up and looking good. We have the same knife block at my house!

If I knew if would do well I'd be tempted to replant my cucumber plants and maybe my squash plants but I think it is too late to replant right now. I can usually get what I need from my dad though. He has a huge garden and usually has extra I can get. I've been able to get extra produce from my grandparents occassionally too.

We are canning some green beans for my MIL today (first time for us doing it) and I am going to try to pickle some of my banana peppers to use on sandwiches. I just have to look up how to do the banana peppers. We definately have plenty of those! I'm just starting to get tomatoes from our garden. Now if I can keep Cameron from picking the green tomatoes I'll have more. Last time I was out there with them in the garden I was trying to do a little weeding and kept having to get onto Cameron for picking green tomatoes!

 

[Vickir73]

I've canned green beans & beets from the garden. The kids have loved them so much that I'll plant at least 3x the amount come spring. I'm trying to find my handy-dandy planting calendar to see if I can plant beets in the fall. I bought a ton of pickling cukes from the $.99 store and we canned bread and butter pickles and a sweet and sour pickle (we haven't tried those yet). My grandmother would only show me how to use the water bath as she refuses to use her pressure cooker on her glass top stove - so I hope all the stuff we canned will be ok.

In the next couple of weeks, I'll be digging out her pressure canner and trying it out on my electric stove.

 

[autumnprairie]

I've canned green beans & beets from the garden. The kids have loved them so much that I'll plant at least 3x the amount come spring. I'm trying to find my handy-dandy planting calendar to see if I can plant beets in the fall. I bought a ton of pickling cukes from the $.99 store and we canned bread and butter pickles and a sweet and sour pickle (we haven't tried those yet). My grandmother would only show me how to use the water bath as she refuses to use her pressure cooker on her glass top stove - so I hope all the stuff we canned will be ok.

In the next couple of weeks, I'll be digging out her pressure canner and trying it out on my electric stove.

I used my pressure cooker on my glass stove because Daisychick uses hers on her glass stove. I did more summer squash today that should be great for soups and such this winter.

 

[Symphony]

Your making us all hungry!

 

[autumnprairie]

Your making us all hungry!

so you can come over for soup this winter

 

[daisychick]

Your tomatoes look great! I sure wish mine would turn red so i can do some. I hope no ones glass top stove breaks because i am a rule breaker and use my pressure cooker on one.