tonight starts my 2016 canning adventure. and no tom not the alcohol type canned or pickled either!!!! 
getting a 1/2 bushel of pickles! most will be a garlic dill and some will have a tia chili peppers added to add some zing to them!!!!!
will be doing salsa… but in a couple months 
Cukes were demolished by rabbits twice, so I stopped planting them. Otherwise I’m sure I would be pickling them too. I wish I could find some bigger cukes, I like to chip them or make spears. That Thai chili sounds great Glenn. Just waiting on some salsa in about a month I soppose.
I would like to can some cucumbers also. What does a 1/2 bushels cost and how many quarts will it do? Where would I get a larger quantity to pickle some? I assume they are 2-4 inch long? Thanks.
Shawn
Wife froze a couple gallons of blueberries today. Garden hasn’t been doing to good this year so not expecting to get much canned. Maybe some pickles. Tomatoes crop doesn’t look to good unless we by a bushel or two. Going to miss them come January in a big pot of chili or venison stew.
I would like to can some cucumbers also. What does a 1/2 bushels cost and how many quarts will it do? Where would I get a larger quantity to pickle some? I assume they are 2-4 inch long? Thanks.
Shawn
I paid 37 bucks for a half bushel of 3-4 inch pickles. I’d bet cukes are cheaper. Wait a bit bet people would give them away.
Cukes were demolished by rabbits twice, so I stopped planting them. Otherwise I’m sure I would be pickling them too. I wish I could find some bigger cukes, I like to chip them or make spears. That Thai chili sounds great Glenn. Just waiting on some salsa in about a month I soppose.
I got the this chili pepper from a former friend. They got them at the Minneapolis farmers market and dried them.
I did 50 lbs of pears and 100+ lbs of apples last year and it got us to May with the 2 little ones. Now that there are 3, I assume I will do 200+ lbs this year! Can’t wait til we are at our place next year to have a big garden! I love canning!
I raised my cukes last year on a trellis. If you do that, you could fence off a small section so the wabbits can’t get to the base. Since the plants grow vertical and the cukes hang off the vine, they are perfectly shaped!
I picked 5 gallon bags worth of raspberries out of my patch in the back yard. From the last 2 weeks. Going to make me a bunch of jam. Love that stuff.
I’ve out a fence around my garden at times to keep the bunnies out. Another thing I use is fix urine.
20 qts of pickles and 60 lbs of blueberries cleaned and froze last night! 
Cukes were demolished by rabbits twice, so I stopped planting them. Otherwise I’m sure I would be pickling them too. I wish I could find some bigger cukes, I like to chip them or make spears. That Thai chili sounds great Glenn. Just waiting on some salsa in about a month I soppose.
The rabbit population in Elk River is insane right now. We put up a nine foot fence a few years ago for deer. This year we had to run chicken wire around the base of the thing to keep those little suckers out. I think we’re good for the year, but I fear a breech in the wire. There are so many around, they would lay waste to the garden in a single work day.
Hoping to can in a month or so: pickles, beets, garlic, salsa.
Im just waiting for tomatoes. Hope to can a few.
I should make pickled vegetables again. Havent made them is a few years because we just dont eat them fast enough.
Seems to be a good year for rabbits everywhere. They are thick in my Woodbury neighborhood. Luckily I rabbit proofed my garden really good this year.
I set a live trap for bunny removal. 2 youngins are now alive and well across the river.!!!!! Friday nite to my surprise I had a possum in the trap!!!!!! 
its now garden fertilizer!!!!!!!!
10 years ago I would shoot them with a pellet gun in my suburban neighborhood. Now I dont even consider it because I dont want someone calling the cops and the swat team showing up. My dog gets her fare share which helps a lot in my yard.
The rabbit population in Elk River is insane right now.
The rabbit population is crazy in a lot of places. We in Maplewood and there’s 2 rabbits on every lawn in the evening.
Except for ours because we have the Big Cat who’s been rabbit patrolling to the point of exhaustion. The Cat’s a gamer, I’ll give him that. 18 years old and he’s out in his rabbit blind in the hosta patch 10 hours a day. He scored another young dumb one on Sunday evening in full view of the neighborhood kids who said he looked like a cheetah running that sucker down on the plains. He dropped it off on the steps and then went inside and went to sleep on his favorite air conditioner vent. He looked like he could use a Gatoraid or something.
Grouse
10 years ago I would shoot them with a pellet gun in my suburban neighborhood. Now I dont even consider it because I dont want someone calling the cops and the swat team showing up. My dog gets her fare share which helps a lot in my yard.
I tried the pellet gun thing it for some reason wont shoot out the pellets.:???: it even plugged up the barrel. had to push like 3 of them out. I do have some odd 22 shells that don’t make noise but consider them to dangerous for in town. kinda why I did the fence. the fox pee has worked for the most part!!
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>MNdrifter wrote:</div>
Cukes were demolished by rabbits twice, so I stopped planting them. Otherwise I’m sure I would be pickling them too. I wish I could find some bigger cukes, I like to chip them or make spears. That Thai chili sounds great Glenn. Just waiting on some salsa in about a month I soppose.I think we’re good for the year, but I fear a breech in the wire. There are so many around, they would lay waste to the garden in a single work day.
I had a breech in my fence. Demolished 2 rows of carrots, they came back but slowed their growth . I also set a live trap just inside the hole. Caught a bunch at first with that set up, then they got smart to it. Then caught 2 more this weekend. The neighbor took care of as I was camping.
image-8.jpg
The FW cans banana peppers. I can eat a jar full in one sitting with some crackers, outstanding!
In the fourteen years we’ve had the land up north I’ve seen only a few rabbits. They’re thick this year. Seems to be the same story statewide. Wonder what causes it.
The FW cans banana peppers. I can eat a jar full in one sitting with some crackers, outstanding!
In the fourteen years we’ve had the land up north I’ve seen only a few rabbits. They’re thick this year. Seems to be the same story statewide. Wonder what causes it.
cycles of life. soon there will be more prey that eat rabbits or desease will reduce there numbers as with everything else in nature.
in the works or agenda for canning is salsa, stewed tomatoes, tomato juice. and if I can find green beans a bunch of them. also a bunch of cukes in pickle brine.
I think I’ll can some rabbits this fall, anyone got a recipe?
It’s time to break out the pressure cooker.
I think I’ll can some rabbits this fall, anyone got a recipe?
It’s time to break out the pressure cooker.
When I was in the service we were served rabbit, pretty darn good!
I do have some odd 22 shells that don’t make noise but consider them to dangerous for in town.
Either a BB cap or CB cap. Nice ammo for in town if you know where the shot is going. I keep a box of the CB caps around for when coon or possum get into things they aren’t supposed to. An inexpensive single shot works best with these kinds of ammo.
You’re pretty gamey Glenn and could save a lot of money by taking a leak yourself on the garden perimeter instead of buying the bottled fox number.
Sorry for the cheesy video, but the recipe is in the sub heading for the video. LOL.
@glenn57….. What salsa recipe do you use if you don’t mind me asking. I used this one last year…….
<div class=”oembed-wrap”><div class=”fluid-width-video-wrapper” style=”padding-top: 56.2353%;”><iframe src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/X52yQImrKlU?feature=oembed” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”” id=”fitvid428860″></iframe></div></div>
Was really good but I tweaked it a little.
I got it from a friend. It’s 4 cake pans of tomatoes then this container of this and that container with that in it. In other words real hard to explain.basic ingredients are mater’s,garlic, peppers,onions and ground cumin.if you’d like it I can try to explain when I get more time.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>glenn57 wrote:</div>
I do have some odd 22 shells that don’t make noise but consider them to dangerous for in town.Either a BB cap or CB cap. Nice ammo for in town if you know where the shot is going. I keep a box of the CB caps around for when coon or possum get into things they aren’t supposed to. An inexpensive single shot works best with these kinds of ammo.
You’re pretty gamey Glenn and could save a lot of money by taking a leak yourself on the garden perimeter instead of buying the bottled fox number.
yea and have every female in town here. Not sure the misses would appreciate that
We picked some cherry tomatoes tonight. Sweet 100 variety and they are sweet. The green beans we’ve been eating pretty regular….very good crop this year. Cukes are producing too. I seed planted some cabbage plants and have a bunch of heads going now but I had to spray this year to keep worms off.
My potatoes froze with a late frost but came back with a vengeance. If I have potatoes like I have potato vines I’ll have to market some. The plants are 3 feet tall.
I love this time of year when much of what hits the dinner table comes right out of the garden.
Busy day tomorrow. Salsa and Pickles. Got jars,lids,bands sterilized and everything washed tonight.
image-1.jpg
image.jpg
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
