My wife has canned every since we got married. When we go shopping she picks up a couple boxes of lids. They are getting hard to find. The cost has gone ski hi. She said she was glad she did not wait to buy lids.

canning is way up as a covid activity

that and food insecurity

general unrest


garden seeds, canning supplies , bullets and guns are all seeing record years.

I got tired of canning beans and the lawn mower got away from me.........

Doing tomatos, put up a bunch of hash browns and stew veggies so far this summer

So far we've finished the potatoes, beets, and summer squash. Still waiting for sweet corn, winter squash, tomatoes, and salsa.

Going to do my first attempt at canning.....nevah too old to learn..

Nes its wicked easy

what canners do you all use? id love to give it a try...

We had a 100 Year Flood this spring along with Covid Shutting our state down. So I made a lot of lure, bait


and replanted the Garden here is how the garden turned out... so I guess I will be canning again.

We had a bumper crop of cucumbers so my wife and mother in law made several jars of pickles. This the first time we tried our hand at canning hope to add green beans to the list next year

Canning tomato juice Saturday and whole tomatos next week. Already got the sweet corn put up,along with the beets and krout. Green beans will be next week also and in a couple more weeks we'll can some peaches. My berries of color are just getting over with and we put up several jars of jam to go with the strawberry jam. Almost been to busy to drink Almost

I pulled a bushel of beets and 1/2 bushel of carrots today for Mrs Brownie to can. She makes great pickled beets.

We also can potatoes, green and yellow beans, tomato and grape juice and venison.

We freeze peppers, huckleberries, blackberries and corn.

I bought an all American 21 qt pressure cooker as soon as the Covid thing hit but thats as far as I've went. Git about 60 qt jars and lids. No garden this year. I'd be intrested to here how big of cookers you guys use and how many qts or pints you guys can if you don't mind sharing.

I know a bit about everything but ashamed to say it that’s one thing that is lost in my household. Mom still cans every year. We were always in the field when I was a kid and I never learned the process. I think I’ll have a sit down with her the next time it rains.

However much you like to eat.

I have an old aluminum pot for canning but each year I say I am going to get a pressure canner. Still have not got one.
Today I put up 2 cases of hot garlic green beans and 1 gallon of crock pickles. Finishing the rest of the green beans tomorrow and starting the dill cukes Saturday.
I think I am going to have lots of tomatoes this year too.
Nessmuck, canning can be fun. It is some alone time in the kichen for me although I get some help sometimes. Enjoy

All american canner is the way to go. mine will do 7 quarts. we can all kinds of stuff. potatoes, green beans, pork applesauce, salsa fish beef and venison.

were good to go got lota of cannemd goods meat included... plenty of primers.... enough powder..... might be a tad short on bullets..... i only got7000

Most are way ahead of me. I can a lot of tomato products. I make a lot of sodium free salsa. Really neat to raise your own tomatoes, all types of peppers, onions, carrots etc. to make the salsa. My stab at garlic did not work well for me this year. With all the moisture and the one garden close to the lake the kale crops are great. I have some amazing broccoli heads right now and the early cauliflower is really looking good. My early sweet corn is about a week away.

Bryce

Nessy, if you have tomatoes you can freeze instead of can. Just get the water boiling and blanch tomatoes for a minute or two, peel, cut if needed, stuff in freezer bags and freeze. Taste like out of the garden when thawed. Use for chili, pasta dishes, or whatever.