How are you puting up your garden loot?

[longwinters]

I'm canning tomatoes (usually 55 - 60 qts), a dozen qts of tomato juice and a few pickles.  Carrots and green beans are blanched (vacume sealed) and froze.  Peppers sliced up, vacume sealed, and froze as is some zuchini.  Blue berries and raspberries are froze as is.  Onions are used as needed with the rest dehydrated and frozen.  Squash is baked, smashed up, vacume sealed and froze.
 
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[cjclemens]

Been canning tomatoes, tomato juice, salsa, green beans.  I think I'm even gonna try canning some beef stew this fall.  Cucumbers were a flop this year, so I didn't get to make any pickles.  Spinach, peppers, zucchini, onion were all sliced up and frozen.  Right now, I'm working on baking some squash which will be frozen as well.  My sweet corn crop was pretty light due to a combination of drought and deer damage, so I just froze it all.

[Old Syko]

This year I've canned everything but blueberries and strawberries.  after some major power outages in the last couple years I decided to only freeze what couldn't be cannned.  I have a generator and fuel for quite some time but if I can do without it, why wouldn't I. 

[hillbill]

i didnt get enough maters or green beans to freeze or can this year because of the dry weather.everything was eaten about as fast as it became ripe.same with squash and cukes. taters did fairly well and will be mulched and left in the ground till i need them. i have some more squash and maters comeing on but they will be eaten fresh as well. about the only thing ive been able to save is lots of jalapeno peppers and cayenne peppers.they will be frozen till i get a large batch to dehydrate. then i will grind them and use them for cooking and on my deer jerky. have sum turnips up and going and planning on planting a fall crop of spinach if we get some rain.

[shaner]

canning what we can, freezin peppers too,  iam really wanting to lookin to can  beef and deer this year, lot  easier to not lose if the powers off again for a week,

[keith44]

well between the drought followed by 7 inches of rain over 12 days the only quantity of surplus garden stuff we have to store is root crops, winter squash, and some hot peppers that I dried

[longwinters]

Wow Keith, I didn't realize you got hit so hard this year.  I can't say I've been impressed with my garden, but it will fill our shelves plus help out a few others.
 
Makes a person wonder about leaning heavy on the root vegetables again next year.
 
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[keith44]

yup, root crops, and shorter duration crops.  I'm also gonna work on water holding berms that can be used for irrigation, and water diversion

[Drilling Man]

  I've been blanching my beans (what don't get ate or gifted to friends) and freezeing them,
 

 
  I have a pail of them to do today...
 
  I also have a LOT of sweetcorn, i cook more than i can eat, cut it off the cob and freeze it.  Garlic i put in cold storage,
 

 
  Anaheims are my fav pepper, i've picked about a pail of them so far from the four plants that i have.  Here's what they look like, 
 

 
  I freeze them along with bell peppers too...
 
  I still have plenty of tomatoes canned, so i've been peeling/coreing tomatoes and freezeing them too, although i may do one canner load out of these??
 

 
  Potatoes (several varieties to pick from) i buy from a potato farmer neighbor, field run for $5.00 per 40 pound bag...  Carrots i buy from a carrot farmer, washed and bagged for $3.00 per 20 pound bag.  They have them until late, and i get some late, to cold storage.
 
  Right now i'm into watermellons, and they are very good again this year.  I eat a lot of watermellon this time of year, and so do my friends.  lol
 
  I leave my squash in the field until late...  My fav is "Butternut" and i have a LOT of them, they keep well in cold storage and i'll be giving them away too.
 
  I froze more veggies this year than i canned, i guess i'm getting lazy!
 
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