How do you can your garden produce?

April 18, 2010 by admin
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I am a city girl living in the country now. I have a wonderful garden of beans, tomatoes and cantaloupe (we ate all the radishes and green onions). I’d like to try my hand at canning but I do not have the first clue, or if it’s even too hard to attempt…help!

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2 Responses to “How do you can your garden produce?”

Michele L says:

April 18, 2010 at 8:27 pm

Its not hard at all I too am a city girl who now lives in the country and cans food.
a good working table and a large canning pot (dollar general)
water boiling then cool it down a bit I freeze corn on the cob.
Blanche the corn in the water for abt. 1 minute take out and cool to room temp. cut off kernels (easy when still warm) keep working it up till all corn is done blanching and cut off cobs then vacuum seal your desire amount in baggies lay flat put in freezer great all winter and then some.
bingo72184 says:

April 18, 2010 at 8:50 pm

The first thing to do is get a good “freezing and canning” cookbook! The one I use is about the size of a paperback novel, and is called the Farm Journal’s Freezing and Canning Cookbook. It give freezing and canning instructions for just about every type of produce you can imagine…and some I never would have! It also has lots of recipes.

You’ll also need a pressure cooker, which can be bought either new at the store, or used at auctions or on e-bay. Old ones work just as well as new ones…you just might have to replace the seal or the pressure guage.

You can either freeze or can green beans, but I like them better canned….and they are easy to process. With your tomotoes you have lots of options. You can can them whole, or make tomato juice….or even your own spaghetti sauce!

While canning isn’t hard, it is time consuming. But it’s very satisfying to see those rows of quart jars sitting on your shelf full of the “fruits of your labor!”

Enjoy!