Canning pizza sauce

Made a batch of pizza sauce:

20 half pints



2012 canning:


16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
21 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
20 1/2pt pizza sauce
5 pints salsa
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 114 jars of food preserved for later

More spaghetti sauce!

I was able to can another batch of spaghetti sauce this weekend.

5  24oz jars


2012 canning:


16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
21 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
5 pints salsa
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 94 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Salsa

I wasn't going to make any salsa this year, but as you can see I changed my mind.  I made a big batch and we used about half of it at a get together and I canned the rest.

5 pints salsa


2012 canning:

16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
16 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
5 pints salsa
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 89 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Spaghetti Sauce Again!

I canned another batch of spaghetti sauce up last night:

7  24oz jars
1 pint jar


2012 canning:


16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
16 24oz spaghetti sauce
6 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 84 jars of food preserved for later

I am feeling really good about the amount of food I have put away this year.  I will have a few more batches to do yet before the move. 

Canning - more potatoes & peppers

I dug the last of the potatoes and fried up a big batch of the little ones for supper yesterday but there were still some little ones left so I canned them and all the peppers that were ready too.

3 pints potatoes
3 1/2 pt chili peppers


2012 canning:


16 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
9 24oz spaghetti sauce
5 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
3 1/2pt chili peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 76 jars of food preserved for later

Canning More Spaghetti Sauce

I had another batch of tomatoes ready, so that means more spaghetti sauce.

Spaghetti Sauce:
5 24oz jars
1 pt jar


2012 canning:


13 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
9 24oz spaghetti sauce
5 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce


= 70 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Spaghetti Sauce

Found a new recipe for spaghetti sauce and when we were taste testing it we gave it a thumbs up!

4 - 24oz  jars
1 - 1/2pt jar


2012 canning:
13 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
4 24oz spaghetti sauce
4 pt spaghetti sauce
2 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 64 jars of food preserved for later

Canning more Ketchup

Last time I canned ketchup I put about 4oz in the fridge and the kids and I tried it and we all thought it was great!  So I made more!

Today's ketchup  10 - 12oz jars & 1 8oz jar.


2012 canning:


13 pints potatoes
8 pints corn
10 3/4 pt ketchup
12 1/2pt ketchup
4 pt spaghetti sauce
1 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 59 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Corn

I have always frozen my sweet corn and I love it that way.  However, I am out of freezer space, so I canned some corn and we will see how we like it. 

8 pints of sweet corn


2012 canning:
13 pints potatoes
8 pints corn

11 1/2pt ketchup
4 pt spaghetti sauce
1 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 48 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Spaghetti Sauce

Canning for today:

Spaghetti Sauce   4 pints and 1 half pint

Canning for 2012:

13 pints potatoes

11 1/2pt ketchup
4 pt spaghetti sauce
1 1/2pt spaghetti sauce
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

= 40 jars of food preserved for later

Canning Ketchup

Tried my hand at making ketchup today for the first time and it turned out really good!

Canning today:
11 1/2 pt  Ketchup


Canning for 2012:

13 pints potatoes
11  1/2pt ketchup
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

Canning - Potatoes & Peppers

It was nice to be able to harvest food from my own garden and have enough
to eat fresh and put away some for the winter!

Canning for today:
5 pints potatoes
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers


Canning for 2012:
13 pints potatoes
4 1/2pt bell peppers
2 1/4pt chili peppers
3 pints grape juice
2 1/2 pt nectarine sauce

Garden Pics 7/28/12

Here are pictures of my new garden at the acreage.
All taken on 7/28/12

the whole 20'x60'

 Corn

 1 Bushel gourd plant

 2 watermelon plants



Plus 20 tomato plants, 13 potato plants, 3 pepper plants, 2 cucumber plants, and a row of peas!

Potatoes from the Garden

When I was growing up the first meal from the garden was always creamed potatoes and peas.  It was a much anticipated meal and we would all eat until we were so full we couldn't stand to put anything else in our mouths.

Well, since I bought the acreage, I finally have a garden!!  I was too late to plant peas but I got potatoes in the ground.  So, I was hoping since the potato plants had grown quite large and bloomed nicely that there would be some small potatoes down there for me to dig out.  So I carefully dug out half of one plant and got these 8 small potatoes.  I am so happy to get these out and will be creaming them up tonight for supper.

Freezing Peppers & Corn

I was able to freeze some garden fresh produce:
5 stuffed bell peppers
5 bags of sweet corn

I was able to get the corn by trading some of my ground cherries to a local farmer.

Garden update

This picture is the third cantaloupe I have harvested so far this season.
I am also harvesting two to four tomatoes and peppers everyday.
I just love growing our own food!!!

Garden update

Here is picture update of my plants:

Cantaloupe on the left, Spaghetti Squash on the right
3 of my 6 tomato plants

2 ground cherry plants

Garden update

A few pictures to let you see my garden's progress:

two ground cherries
cantaloupe

two early girl tomatoes

Garden Update

I have been harvesting leaf lettuce for about a month now but I think this batch is done. Last week we had several days over 90' and I think it was just too much heat. That's ok tho, we aren't really lettuce lovers and are kind of burnt out on it ourselves. I will plant it again in the late summer for a fall harvest.

I was able to start harvesting peas this morning:

2011 Garden $28.80

5 Hardy Kiwi plants $22.25
Lettuce seeds $1.29 - first batch is growing great

The grapes I purchased last year are growing.

Peas - with seed from last year
Pink blueberries planted last year, still small, but looking good.

I also have tomatoes, peppers started with seed from last year.

I purchased a few new seeds to try this year:

Cantaloupe 1.79

Ground Cherry 0.99

Spaghetti Squash 1.49

Louffa 0.99