2024 Garden Seeds and Starts

[21incher]

Hot pasta sauce bottled up, 5 - 750 ml jars.

Dang, you guys up there use metric canning jars  . Do they use the same lids as ours?

[SwampDonkey]

Yes, same lids. Those are old pasta bottles we've saved over the years instead of buying.  They are ~1.5 pints roughly. Our litre here is a little bigger than your quart. We often get stuff with weird amounts instead of 1/4'ers or 1/2's. Like 946 ml instead of 950 ml or 1 litre. That indicates a US product or US bottle. Same with your a pint, it's short of few ml. We can buy full 500 ml jars, we just call them pints.  Also, an imperial pint is 20% bigger than a US pint. Everybody has to be different. It's the same way with spinning and plying yarn, the count and ply are reversed up here.  8/2 cotton is US, 2/8 is Canadian. Same yarn. The Bernardin canning book is a mix of metric and US measures.

[Otis1]

My garden has turned out ok this year, 2- 4*8 raised beds and a couple small containers. I'm amazed at how much I can grow in a small space. I've grown:
Radishes, carrots, lettuce x 3 varieties, tomato x 3 varieties, bell pepper, jalapeno, poblano, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumber, dill, basil, red onion, green onion, sugar snap peas, garlic, winter squash, kohlrabi, spinach, and experimenting with eggplant, and marigolds. 

I've canned 12 quarts of pickles with a quick mix, 2 more quarts of refrigerator pickles, and I'm working on a few quarts of fermented pickles now. The bell peppers and jalapeno aren't very big this year, wet cool spring. Tomatoes are finally getting ripe. 

[thecfarm]

Got any black buckets for the peppers? Or any way to lay down black plastic?
Peppers love the heat!!!

[SwampDonkey]

We've eaten a couple garden cantaloupe this week, gave one away to a cousin. They are some juicy and sweet. My goodness. 

[SwampDonkey]

[thecfarm]

My Father would of liked to see them.

[SwampDonkey]

Got 4.5 gallons of tomato puree I'm boiling down for sauce this morning. 

[SwampDonkey]

11 more 750 ml jars of mild spaghetti sauce today. 

[SwampDonkey]

This year's squash harvest off of my small patch. We picked and cooked 3 others the size of them at the top round of the wheel barrow. We made a couple pies to.  They's dry squash when cooked up to, you almost need a lb of good butter on them.



And the grand champion of the bunch this year is... 

[SwampDonkey]

BBQ sauce

[SwampDonkey]

More 750 ml pasta sauce jars.