September 30, 2008

100 Bottles of food on the wall,

Ok, so I didn't actually count all the bottles on the wall. But I will give you a run down of what is there. As I mentioned earlier our garden was too small to do any canning, so I bought from local sources and shared with my Mom, who planted a big garden. There are a few remaining jars from last year that we just did not eat as much.

The following is what I did this summer.
  • Strawberries - 2 batches of syrup, froze with sugar
  • Blueberries- 1 batch of syrup, froze for later use
  • Green beans - 35 quarts (this was a marathon day at my Mom's, we did 14 cookers in 1 day)
  • Peaches - 25 quarts
  • Grapes- 28 quarts of juice, 1 batch of jam (these were given to me by a lady in our ward, all I did was comment on her garden and she was sending me home with boxes of grapes!)
  • Tomatoes- 25 quarts ( I was a little over ambitious and bought a bushel from the Amish)
  • Raspberries - 1 batch of jam (I should mention I have a raspberry patch, but it takes 3 cups of fruit for jam and I only got 2 cups. So I froze my berries for another time not sure what I was going to do with them. Turns out we found a guy that had raspberries in Sept, so I had enough to do 1 batch of jam.)
  • Applesauce ???? This is yet to be done. The apples are now on. It is just a matter of getting them and doing it.




2 comments:

Amanda said...

Your canning looks gorgeous! I wish that I was as ambitious as you. I have a ton of tomatoes that I need to do something with - maybe salsa. Kudos on your food storage! Yummmm!

Jenny said...

What a beautiful sight!