So, who's preserving what?

[Brambling01]

I made a start a few weeks ago, Raspberry jam from the pitiful crop I had this year. I had just enough for 5lbs of jam.
I've also pickled 5 jars Beetroot.
I'm now freezing beans as they are ready, and I'm also pickling a couple of jars every now and then too.
Cucumber pickles are next, there are 5 ready to preserve, should make 5 jars of Bread and butter Pickles.
Antipasti is next, I have allsorts of bits and peices ready.
The market stall in town is selling Peaches cheap, so I'm going to bottle some this weekend.
Once the Apples and Damsons are ripe I will make Damson jam, Bottled Damsons and Bottle plenty of Applesauce. Phew!
Then It'll be time to dehydrate some more sweetcorn, peas, soup veg, potato slices and mushrooms. No rest for the wicked eh?
That should help keep the old food bill down.

Anyone else?

[hobo]

So far....20 jars blackcurrant jam, 5 jars loganberry jam, 5lb dehydrated backcurrants, half a freezer full of various berries. Next it's brambles...millions of them!

Hobo

[Brambling01]

Had a good blackcurrant crop did we?

If you blitz the dehydrated blackcurrants in a liquidiser to powder. Homemade Koolaid!

[Teapot]

Our plum tree has produced a grand total of zero plums this year. Last year was a huge crop, in fact... i still have loads left in the freezer! (How long does fruit keep for in the freezer?) So that's disappointing. We don't have much in the way of a garden.. just a little city yard and we've been a bit rubbish at doing much in it this year - I've been ill for nearly a year, my best friend is very ill long term and her mum who lives with us has gone into relapse with her cancer so things have gone a bit belly up!

We do have a patch of waste ground next door to our house though... which looks rather unsightly but there are millions of blackberries there so I'll be going out picking soon I think. That's about all I've got in the way of grown food.

This next year is going to be better. Hopefully by this time next year I'll have a whole load of harvests.

[preppingsu]

Already pickled some beetroot - some more almost ready to do.
Runner beans, french beans and peas starting to go into the freezer.
Rhubarb stewed and in freezer or in individual crumbles/pies.
Starting to get windfalls from the bramley tree so need to do something with those.
Most other stuff gets eaten straight away!!!!!

Would be interested in the recipe for cumcumber pickle please......

[diamond lil]

Erm.... oooooh....lifted a bag of tatties - does that count? Feeding the kale and chard to the hens. really must get a dehydrator !!

[david64]

19 jars of jam
33 bottles of mixed sloe, bullace, damson, rhubarb, raspberry, redcurrant & gooseberry rums and ports

Much more to come. I'd like to look at dehydrating burdock root of which there is a bountiful supply.

[pseudonym]

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33 bottles of mixed sloe, bullace, damson, rhubarb, raspberry, redcurrant & gooseberry rums and ports

Much more to come.

Nicely done sir

[diamond lil]

Wot he means is, we want some !

[david64]

The good thing about booze is that it is full of energy. Probably not the most economical per calorie though.