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Well, I began canning today. I bought 12 pounds of strawberries to make jam. I made 21 pints of jam out of them, and still have a few berries left over to eat.

Leah Mr. Green

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mumzeemo · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

That reminds me....strawberry picking time!!!!!!! Mr. Green

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punkinfuzz · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject:

I wish that we had strawberries to pick. I've often thought that we should start a strawberry bed, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for the extra work involved. Maybe when the kiddos get a little older and more responsible.... Rolling Eyes

Anyway, I love homemade strawberry jam. We had used all of ours from last year during the winter. A couple of months ago, I really had a craving for some strawberry jam, so I bought a jar. I used it once, and it now resides in the refrigerator--the taste hardly seemed to resemble strawberries! Mad

There's nothing quite like the real thing!

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

mumzeemo · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject:

My mom has already frozen some rhubarb. Do you raise that? We make a strawberry/rhubarb sauce, and a cake called rhubarb surprise!

Our strawberry plants are first year and on the deck. If I get strawberries I'll have to go picking at a farm. Neutral

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punkinfuzz · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject:

Rhubarb plants are on the "one of these days" I'd like to have some list. Unfortunately, "one of these days" hasn't arrived yet. I need to get a start from my mother-in-law.

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

punkinfuzz · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:23 am Post subject:

We've begun harvesting produce from the garden. We've been getting lettuce for several weeks now, and we had enough yellow beans to have some with supper last night.

We've been eating broccoli for a couple of weeks, and yesterday I blanched and froze some for later--I got five freezer bags put away.

I pulled up some onions that had gotten knocked over by something (cat, dog, who knows what), and chopped those up to freeze. I froze them in 1/4 cup portions in a muffin tin, and then dumped the "muffins" into freezer bags. I ended up with 42 little portions of chopped onion.

We also pulled up a few beets yesterday, and I got 1 1/2 pints of pickled beets (not exactly a bumper crop, there!).

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

punkinfuzz · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:18 pm Post subject:

One of our deacons gave us a bag of huge cucumbers on Wednesday evening. I cut those up, and now we have 8 quarts of cucumber apple rings (only I didn't cut them in rings--too time-consuming!).

Another freezer bag of broccoli tonight.

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

mumzeemo · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject:

Great! Our lettuce is bolting! Neutral

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punkinfuzz · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:28 am Post subject:

Our lettuce was much too bitter to eat (we've had highs in the 90s for some time now), so it got tilled under, and we planted beans there.

I froze 3 more bags of broccoli and 56 more chopped onion "muffins". I've got a bucket of cucumbers that I need to get peeled and cut up for more cucumber apples.

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

punkinfuzz · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

I got the cucumbers cut up and made 9 more quarts of cucumber apples last night.

4 more bags of broccoli in the freezer tonight.

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

punkinfuzz · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:25 am Post subject:

I dug up the rest of the onions and chopped them to freeze. 60 more onion "muffins" in the freezer now.

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

punkinfuzz · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject:

3 more bags of frozen broccoli.

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

punkinfuzz · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:23 am Post subject:

A lady from church gave me several cucumbers, and together with the ones from our garden, I had enough to do something with. I made 11 quarts of dill spears, and 8 more quarts of cucumber apples.

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

punkinfuzz · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject:

Another freezer bag of broccoli.

Leah Mr. Green

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Servant of the Most High God, wife to my best friend, and mom to seven wonderful children
"Anyone can learn to play the notes--not everyone can make music."

Miss_Kitty13 · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:14 am Post subject:

Omg wow your canning now? My mom cans now too with my dad's help. They canned carrots and apple butter, apple jelly, applesauce lol! lots of apple stuff. some soup and a different kind of homemade soup and a few other things and shes into freezin stuff too. the neighbors have a big rasberry bush and had me and my brother go and pick a BUNCH of rasberrys and my mom froze all them

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