What are you canning/freezing right now?

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Farmer Kitty, my mother has always, and still does, put up anywhere from 100-200 qts of tomatoes...so we are sooooo small potatoes compared to her! I thought it was cute though, because he couldn't find my canning book, I was at work and out of range, so he called his grandma and she gave him the 411! He said, "After all, she is the source of all information in the Universe!" :lol:
 

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allenacres said:
I have problems with freezer burn when I freeze things from the garden. Any tips?
Get one of the vacuum sealers. It's the air in the container that causes freezer burn. I love my sealer!
 

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We do have one of those but I wasnt using it for the beans. Thank you. :)

Another question, are canned beans better tasting than frozen? After seeing your canned beans I thought that might work better for us since there are only 2 of us and it seems like it would be less work than freezing them?
 

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My family doesn't like their beans frozen so, I can them. It's mostly a matter of preference.

With freezing beans it's snip, blanch, cool, and freeze.

Canning you have to snip, pack, add hot water (& salt if you choose), and pressure can.

Of course, with both, you need to pick and clean them first.
 

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and my husband likes his green beans cooked to death, that is why Im thinking the canned beans would work better for us. Plus I dont like the work of blanching. I do like to can however. Thank you for the tips. :)
 

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We have a Victory Garden in one of our fields for our feeding mission- The Mustard Seed Connection and also for our hispanic ministry. We planted 100 tomato and 100 pepper plants. The peppers are doing well, actually so are the tomatoes, but with the junky weather we had this early summer I'm hoping the tomatos will ripen so we can can, harvest. Our corn is stunted...I'm hearing that all over the plateau where we live. All cool weather plants did great. I'm just worried about the warm weather ones. :fl
 

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We definatley need the frost to hold off here too! Everything is behind due to the cold, wet spring we had.

I just shut the canner down 4 pts. of sugar-free beet pickles.

I also just bagged about 7 pkgs. of peppers, cut up, and threw them in the freezer.

Have to head back to the fair this aft.

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yes Im praying for a long warm fall, or at least a good long warm indian summer. But days like today dont give me much hope, its chilly and grey today.
My cold weather crops did well this year, maybe corn in a couple of weeks. I have lots of green tomatoes but that is why I grow tomatoes, for the green ones as I make sweet green pepper relish. Old family recipe that I grew up on. My cucumbers are itty bitty things. :( lots and lots of carrots so the horses will be happy.
 
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