Done For Now
@BettyB (4117)
Summerville, South Carolina
16 responses
@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
13 May 17
I didn't realize you could get two crops out of some vegetables in the year, or did you purchase the tomatoes from a store rather than using your own yield from a garden? When we've canned from our garden, when growing up, we did the canning only in the fall. I've not canned since I was in my twenties. Mostly because I'm too busy. I figure when my girls get married and if I've retired by then, maybe I can teach them how and begin doing it for us again too.
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
16 May 17
Here in the south we can get two crops of a lot of vegetables. The tomatoes in my garden are not ripe yet. I bought the tomatoes at the farmer's market. When buying by the box (25 pounds) they're cheap. They're not locally grown. they came from Florida. The local tomatoes will go on sale the middle of June.
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@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
16 May 17
@BettyB June still sounds early. They've not even begun planting in this area or if they have it's been since I travelled those roads and the seed is still under the earth. They actually may not begin planting many crops until after Memorial Day as we could still get a frost that late.
We have a Farmer's Market here too, but I've never heard of anyone canning from produce they didn't plant, not that no one does, I just don't know them.
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
16 May 17
@MarshaMusselman Summer starts early here. I'll be picking summer squash in another day or two. The beans need to be picked as well. the tomatoes are getting big but they haven't started to turn. Most of my family lives in Minnesota and North Dakota. They're talking about their gardens and going through seeds, but nothing is in the ground yet.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
13 May 17
I admire you. With no assistance amazing how you did so much of work.
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..... I'd like to learn how to make my own salsa.@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
16 May 17
The jars are sealed so no, they don't need to be refrigerated. Canning tomatoes is not hard. The first year is usually expensive as you have to buy a hot water bath and the jars, but after that its just the cost of the tomatoes.
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@prashu228 (37526)
• India
13 May 17
Is it a ketchup or pickles? Its interesting, the color ,jars everything is apt..how does it taste?
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
13 May 17
I make it all into salsa and tomato sauce for spaghetti.
@silvermist (19702)
• India
14 May 17
@BettyB That is quite an achievement.They look nice arranged like that.
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
16 May 17
Thanks. They've been moved to a shelf in the closet in one of the spare bedrooms. That's one of the problems of canning so much. the jars need to be stored.
@Letranknight2015 (51490)
• Philippines
14 May 17
That's a lot of tomatoes in the jar, how long do you think before it expires?
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
16 May 17
The jars are seals so they will last. We usually use them within a year.
@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
13 May 17
Well done you. I admire anyone who preserves their own foods. It is much better for you as you know what you put into it rather than buying processed stuff. I wish we all did this. Perhaps you might have started a trend. I am very interested about drying fruit and stuff. I read about it. I believe in the USA they have some machines or oven things that specifically dry out the fruit. I am not sure they sell them over here! It is incredibly expensive to buy dried fruit here!
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
13 May 17
I have a small tabletop dehydrator. I know they have them on Amazon. I mostly use mine to dry herbs and make apple rollups.
@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
13 May 17
It's not nearly as much work as people think it is. I worked on them off and on for four days. It wasn't a nonstop process. The salsa is the most work. Making sauce is easy.
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
14 May 17
Did you buy tomatoes? Mine are just now blooming. I also home can and I bought a sauce maker so this year I will make more products.
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
16 May 17
I have tomatoes in my garden, but when I can I usually go to the farmer's market. The tomatoes are cheap and then I can get them done all at once.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
16 May 17
My parents would do that many but we don't even plant our gardens until a week from now. When we had a garden we canned too but not any more...
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
13 May 17
Looks really good those glass containers...You must be needing a real large larder
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