A look at our canning so far this year and todays harvest.
This year has been an excellent year for tomatoes, jalapenos, cucumbers, green peppers and squash. So far Mrs. @sufficientliving has canned more than 60 jars of salsa, 35 jars of jalapenos, 12 jars of pickles, and shredded and froze more than 30 pounds of squash for using in breads and other recipes. The green peppers that we don't eat or give away are diced and frozen for later use.
Pictured above is some of our salsa. We make the salsa in mild, medium, hot, and habanero hot.
Below we have some of our jalapenos, bananna peppers, and peach jam.
Below are some pictures from todays harvest. It is time to start canning pizza and pasta sauce, and making more pickles. We ended up harvesting 98 tomatoes, 30 cucumbers, 15 green peppers, and 1 squash. I'm surprised that we are still getting squash this late in the season. We didn't harvest an jalapenos today, we will get todays harvest processed and get jalapenos in a couple of days. The habaneros are just about ready to start harvesting too.
What is growing good for you in your parts, leave me a comment and let me know.
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All photos taken by @sufficientliving
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Wow, that is really is sufficient living, @sufficientliving!
I'm a tomato grower in zone 7b, We have had a great year for tomatoes here. We grow for market, donate, and eat them. Starting to make some sauces this weekend. I recently added some harvest photos if all those delicious vegetables you've got didn't make you hungry enough looking at them..haha
What varieties of tomatoes do you grow? Looks like some Brandywines in there 😉
This year I tried Better Boy, Early Girl, Big Boy, Jet Star, Brandywine and a few other varieties that I can't remember Lol. I will normally grow some mortgage lifters, but this year I wanted to try some I have never grown. I am in zone 6a. In the last two weeks we have had almost 10 inches of rain so many of the tomatoes were cracked open and went straight to the chickens. I checked out your post you are swimming in tomatoes!!
Awesome! I thought I saw some Brandywines in there. And actually it's my first year with Mortgage Lifter, love the pinkish color of those. We have gotten quite a bit of rain lately as well. Our splitting, thankfully, is mainly a handful of verities - Money Maker (small 4-8oz), Pineapple (very large) were the big splitters for us. I have a few varieties that held surprisingly well so far.
And yes, we sure are swimming in tomatoes 😋. Need to take notes from ya and start canning! Thanks for your time and looking forward to a happy harvest for us both! 🍅
Thanks for checking out my post. I am following along with your grow money in your yard series. I have thought about doing it for a while but life always gets in the way. I'm looking forward to learning from you.
You can do it! I understand the 'life getting in the way' struggle..LOL It is usually two 'lives' aka toddlers in my way. Toddlers are little garden-grim-reapers 😆
You seem to have a pretty good handle on growing, those veggies look excellent. Why not make some extra money, right? You can start very small and you've already got the garden. I'm hoping to share a ton of information in the series that will help micro scale to acre+ operations. The legal hurdles are a drag, but the next part of the series will be much more fun! Thank You for following along. I will try not to disappoint!
I hear you on the grim reapers! My youngest toddler (14 months) keeps picking the tiny green tomatoes while I'm working in the garden...grrrrrr. She sees the bigger girls getting to pick the beans and cucumbers and doesn't wait for me to tell her what to pick before she's off to harvest whatever she finds. Yikes.
I planted a patch of cherry tomato plants and let them go wild - the kids think they aren't supposed to pick them, so they do...a lot.😂 Little do they know it's a decoy! It can be havoc in the garden, so 'sacrificial planting' is a smart move..haha. It's fun though, isn't it @lturner38 ? Seeing them thrive and learn how our labor generates the food we eat is something beautiful. Worth all the cleanup and repair that our little demolition experts create.😎
It's definitely fun to have them working with me, but I have to admit the picking of the baby tomatoes is definitely exasperating. I had a grape tomato that succumbed to early blight so my "kid planting" failed on me for once. Now I have the littlest one occupied by carrying cucumbers for me a lot (just have to recognize she will occasionally take a bite out of one).
I've been canning like crazy as well. The past 3 weeks have added over 100 jars of food to my pantry shelves. Not bad for a beginner gardener. Love your pictures, and the report on how well your garden is doing. Up-voted and following.
Thats awesome, sounds like your garden is doing great too. 100 jars is a lot of food. Good luck with your canning.
WHOA!!!! You got 100 jars out of a beginner's garden?! I am beyond impressed. Wow.
Actually I got about half out of my brothers garden. He lives on the same property. We share the gardens and the produce. He loves to can as I do. It's a great system. Thanks for the kind words.
Nice i love jalapenos thanks for sharing .. Upvoted and followed
We love them too. We put them in everything from eggs to cheeseburgers. Thanks for checking out my post.
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Wow that is so many cans, how long does it take to can all of that?
It takes about 2 hours per batch of salsa usually about 8-12 jars. Jalapenos take about an 1 1/2 hours for 12 jars.
Thank you for replying, that's not too long, what thinking may be all day.
A wonderful post and you certainly have a well stocked pantry.
Nice crop coming in and congratulations on all the jars! I really like seeing our pantry starting to fill up like that.
The pickles are having a good year here, as are the eggplant and beans. My father-in-law has a hugely bumper crop of jalapenos next door. We've gotten our peach trees to actually bear for the first time this year and the raspberry canes have shot up about 6 feet tall and are loaded - I'm always pessimistic until the fruit comes in, but they really look like they're having a good year so far.
Awesome job Mrs. @sufficientliving! Our tomatoes did horribly this year. Think it's time they get relocated to another area on the property though.
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