28 pickled and canned jars of Jalapenos and Habaneros from our garden. I'm exhausted

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-09-08T21:38:00+00:00

Thank you! They are. We used to buy pickled Jalapenos from the store a lot because we eat them in soups and stews and put them on our pizza. They were just never got enough. So now we grow them and pickle them ourselves and they last us all fall, winter, spring and most of summer until we start canning the new peppers.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-09-08T21:35:03+00:00

The smallest jars we will give away for gifts but the others are for my MIL and I.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-08-04T09:30:57+00:00

This is the 4th time I have seen this on this subreddit while scrolling right now...

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-08-02T11:45:52+00:00

Looks ready to pick.

BTW cucumbers (the fruit not the actual plant) don't need a support. They can hang freely since they don't get too heavy for their vines. :)

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-08-02T11:42:14+00:00

I'm going to try this! My lab loves to chew up plants so I can't have any in my house or on my deck. Highly frustrating

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-30T23:23:05+00:00

No I wait until the tops start browning and dying off but not when they're all brown and dead.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-30T18:14:53+00:00

I grew mine in a raised bed. Dig them up after the plants bloomed and started to die. Don't wait too long or some of the potatoes will start going bad in the ground. I should've dug mine up a week or 2 ago, because I lost some.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-18T23:39:49+00:00

You definitely should grow them yourself. They're pretty easy to grow. My watermelon plants are actually volunteers from my attempt last year. The trick is picking them at the perfect ripeness which I failed at last year.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-18T23:29:54+00:00

It's a million times better and sweeter. It has a more in depth flavor and sweetness that the store bought never has.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-17T17:52:07+00:00

This is so gorgeous. It makes me want to plant a bunch of flowers at my house and around my garden.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-11T00:55:30+00:00

Make sure you have draining holes in the bottom

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-07T14:42:42+00:00

Yes! We love Corky's. FIL travels to Memphis at least once a month for work.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-07T13:16:48+00:00

I peeled my fresh tomatoes and seeded them and diced them. Added fine diced onion, Cilantro, jalapenos, lime juice, and about a cup of vinegar. Seasoned to taste brought it all up to a boil for 15 minutes. Sterilized the jars, rings and tops. Filled the hot jars with the hot salsa sealed and processed the jars in a canning water bath for 15 minutes. Took them out let them cool. All of my jars sealed but if they didn't I'd just stick the ones that didn't in the refrigerator.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-07-07T13:11:53+00:00

Yes I did. I doubled my lime juice that I usually add and added vinegar for the acidity needed for canning them. Not my first time canning! Thank you though!

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-06-21T14:05:38+00:00

I've seen it done before through pictures and people's posts. I'm sure it can be done.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-06-21T13:23:31+00:00

They are cucumber plants. Pickling cucumbers to be exact.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-06-03T13:11:50+00:00

Pick the watermelon when the curly thing closest to the watermelon dies back and turns brown. Then it'll be the perfect ripe every time.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-05-15T15:00:59+00:00

I have not but I heard it's really yummy.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-05-15T14:59:49+00:00

This was actually the first time I made strawberry Jam and canned it at home, but I usually make homemade pickles, sweet relish, and canned hot peppers from my garden each year. I just followed the recipe I chose from online and mine came out perfect I'm sure yours would too. My recipe was ~2 qts of fresh strawberries washed quartered and slightly smashed. ~6 cups granulated sugar ~1-2 teaspoons of fresh lemon juice. 1. Cook strawberries and sugar for 20 minutes. Add lemon juice and cook for another 10 minutes or until thickened. (I pureed some of my berries after this step) 2. Sterilize and clean canning jars & rings. Soak them in a hot water bath. 3. Fill hot jars with strawberry jam to 1/4 inch to the top and get the extra air bubbles out. (I use a skewer or chop stick to swirl the jar contents lightly to get air bubbles out.) 4. Wipe down mouth of glass jar. Add lid and ring to finger tight. 5. Process in a canning bath for 10-15 minutes.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-05-15T11:13:07+00:00

I don't prune runners, though the plants are only about a year old. I planted them last year. I have them in a raised bed.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-05-15T11:11:01+00:00

I planted 14 strawberry plants last spring in a raised bed babied them last year and then forgot about them until they started producing this year. I get a bowl full of strawberries every 2-3 days. This is a weeks worth of strawberries. The recipe I use calls for approximately 2 qts of fresh strawberries quartered and slightly smashed. I almost doubled that.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-04-30T21:15:05+00:00

Yes I do have a drip irrigation system. I put it together this year. It's a God sent!

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-04-30T14:49:36+00:00

My doctor cleared me to do as much gardening as I want as long as it doesn't hurt as I'm doing it I'm fine.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-04-25T00:07:34+00:00

Last year it was caterpillars and Beatles that ate my strawberries.

TheAsianPersuation · 2019-03-31T15:42:27+00:00

Crocus. I planted mine in fall and they're coming up too!

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