Sample of Harvest 11

[lcruzen]

This is just a pic of each item I canned this year. From left to right.........

Green beans - 24 pts
Garlic dills - 24pts
Saurkraut - 24pts
Salsa - 12 qts
Crushed tomatoes - 24 qts
V8 juice - 12 qts




Also froze 4 dz ears of corn taken off the cob(not shown). Think I'm done for the year and hope it lasts thru the winter and spring. Time now for some sausage makin!

[Texas-Hunter]

Lou, I love you like a brother buddy.. But you guys and your great producing gardens suck.. I mean that in the most loving way..


Maybe I need a summer home up MI way??

It all looks great too..

[lynsey123]

Ya it'll last ya till we visit then my trunk will be full hahaha

[Slanted88]

Gonna be some goood chowing there Cat Daddy! Louie has been after the zipper pea's & mater's....

[Bassman]

Beautiful! There's nothing prettier than a pantry full of home canned goodness.

[lcruzen]

Lou, I love you like a brother buddy.. But you guys and your great producing gardens suck.. I mean that in the most loving way..


Maybe I need a summer home up MI way??

It all looks great too..

Ken, I really don't garden anymore. Might take it up again when I retire but not enough time now and when the veggies come in at the local produce stands it is probably cheaper just buying it. I keep telling myself that anyway!This was a great year for produce in Michigan and yes Ken, you do need a summer home here to get out of that ungoddly heat in Tejas. Bring Billy Gibbons with you!

[SMOKE FREAK]

Nice work!
This year has ben so disappointing...Not one canning project to this date...Never before...

[Texas-Hunter]

Nice work!
This year has ben so disappointing...Not one canning project to this date...Never before...

I feel your pain Craig.. Remember this thread from '09?? LINK

[SMOKE FREAK]

That was before my time...still on the dark side...

I have harvested little more than a dozen maters this year...not counting cherries...Usually have a hundred or two pounds...Even more back in my farmers market days...This is the worst year I have ever seen...But my plants have finally set some new fruit...If only the frost will hold off...

Sorry for the hijack...

[ALX]

Nicely done.....I battled the stink bugs again this year....well over 100 quarts maters,but them bugs got after some of my peppers and i lost 40% or so...

30 inches of rain in a month ended me main garden earlier then normal though...

[sweet_magnolia]

Great job, Lou! Some good eats this winter!!

[erain]

nice job Lou!!! i didnt take a count but did some of Alx.s ketchup(great stuffeven without the aging), froze green beans and squash, tomato sauce-cupla recipies, pickles, and some beets. didnt do any kraut this year. still have a bunch left. next year... i love the canning and the garden veggy usage posts.

[Fishawn]

i love the canning and the garden veggy usage posts.

Me also, got the bug. Just with I had a better garden



Nice job Lou

[lcruzen]

This only my 2nd year canning and I have no idea what we'll go thru during the course of the year. Only did pickles and kraut last year and ran out in the Spring. Doubled those and guessed at the rest.

[Mark R]

Good stuff Lou!

I just got started this year. Bought most all of the veggies and fruit.
So far 12 quarts whole tomatoes, 16 pints mater sauce, 4 applebutter, 4 pints preserved lemon and 6 pickled okra! Just a start, Oh....the okra is ready!!! I just tried a couple reallllly good!