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The stawberries, blueberries and tomatos have already come in. I did jam and jelly for the fruit and I'm going to do Salsa for the tomatoes manana. I have jalapeno and onions.

Ohhhh....I SO miss my garden. There is just no way to plant anything here. As soon as this BS with Matt is over, we're moving to Georgia. We decided that today. I'm going to be able to have a garden again. Then I'm going to want some canning tips from you, NV. That's something I've never tried before.

Oh, tamales. I want some of those!:)

Beef ones, pork ones, sweet ones with raisin, and the candied ones with napolitos cooked that special way.

You can send me some of that strawberry jam, if ya have to many jars on hand. I'll be sure to put it to good use.

ooh and NV my daughter just saw your AV and she said " mama look at that pig jumping up and down" :wah:

nvalleyvee wrote: The stawberries, blueberries and tomatos have already come in. I did jam and jelly for the fruit and I'm going to do Salsa for the tomatoes manana. I have jalapeno and onions.


ALREADY? Around here it's not usually time to can until like August

or so. I mean, that people actually do it. Our wet spring held us back

quite a bit this year, though.



Good for you for doing that, there's nothing quite like it, is there?



:-6

Since my brother retired a few years back, he has done alot of canning. Usually hot peppers and salsa. Rick and I , of course, always get some. The only rule is we have to save the jars and give them back to him for next time!!

We have a couple of plum trees, one peach, one apple, and a gigantic "peachcot" (A cross between a peach and an apricot.)

The peachcot puts out bushels of fruit every year and it's fantastic. My wife makes jams, jellies and apple butter enough to last the whole year. We even let all the neighbors come over and harvest all they want, and I'm still picking up peachcots from the driveway fro three months.:-2

Jives wrote: We have a couple of plum trees, one peach, one apple, and a gigantic "peachcot" (A cross between a peach and an apricot.)



The peachcot puts out bushels of fruit every year and it's fantastic. My wife makes jams, jellies and apple butter enough to last the whole year. We even let all the neighbors come over and harvest all they want, and I'm still picking up peachcots from the driveway fro three months.:-2


That's one AMAZING woman, j-low, gravely ill and manages to do all the

hot, heavy work (okay well granted it's not FLAME THROWING)

canning requires.



Oops, wait a minnit, that's right, silly me, I forgot, was it after your 12 hours

in the doc's waiting room that they found an antibiotic to treat? No, I'm sorry,

must have been the aspirin and Epsom salts. Yeah, yeah, that was it.





:D

BabyRider wrote: Ohhhh....I SO miss my garden. There is just no way to plant anything here. As soon as this BS with Matt is over, we're moving to Georgia. We decided that today. I'm going to be able to have a garden again. Then I'm going to want some canning tips from you, NV. That's something I've never tried before.


BR........I'd be happy to help you.

I have 24 pints of Apricot Jam - OMG way too much...... (didn't get any apricots last year), 27 pints of red chili sauce, 8 oints of strawberry jam, 8 1/2 pints of blueberry and 17 pints of salsa. The garden is just now coming in and BTS and I are looking at buying more storage space....I'm f...ked for the summer....:-5 :wah:

SnoozeControl wrote: If you make tamales again this Christmas, that salsa should taste yummy with them. :yh_drool


You got it..........dry ice for shipping.......LOL.....it would work.

Marie5656 wrote: Since my brother retired a few years back, he has done alot of canning. Usually hot peppers and salsa. Rick and I , of course, always get some. The only rule is we have to save the jars and give them back to him for next time!!


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