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cesare said:
What does 'canned' mean in Merikan if you don't mind me asking?
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Heat processing veggies for storage. You generally parboil the food, place it into sterilized jars, seal the lids on, and put them into a boiling water bath to sterilize the food and create a vaccuum seal on the lid. When you remove the jars from the water you can hear the lids sealing with a small "tink" sound.
 
Yuwipi Woman said:
Heat processing veggies for storage. You generally parboil the food, place it into sterilized jars, seal the lids on, and put them into a boiling water bath to sterilize the food and create a vaccuum seal on the lid. When you remove the jars from the water you can hear the lids sealing with a small "tink" sound.
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Ah, cheers. I've always called it 'bottling', I wondered if it was the same thing. Could have just googled :o It'd be a good thread to start if you were inclined to, there must be lots of different recipes, and coming up to Christmas there must be quite a few people that would like ideas on how to do it so they can give them as gifts. And plenty of people like me that are a bit nervous of doing it ... which probably sounds odd, but I worry about jars exploding, food not being properly sterilised etc.
 
A freshly cropped selection of the sweet to the fuck off hot.
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:)
 
northernhord said:
Not been a great year for spuds 08, I only ended up with a huge crop cos I planted well over of a hundred of the fuckers.
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I have bitched a bit on here about what i thought were my failed spuds, but i've got a couple of days off from work this week and today made the most of the fine weather. After cutting back a load of dead tomato plant stems that had previously intertwined with their neighbouring spud plants, thereby making it very difficult for me to dig the spuds up, and after only finding 3 extremely small specimins, i'd given the rest up for dead.

How wrong i was! Dug up about 2 kilos today, and am absolutely chuffed to bits :D I was just going to dig the soil up in case it was diseased, but i've ended up with a bag full of spuds! Some of them are a bit naff, skins like leather, but some look really good. Going to make a fish pie with them as topping tomorrow or saturday, have some roasted on sunday and freeze the leftovers which i'll mash first (this does work btw, tried and tested now with leftover supermarket spuds).

Tomatoes have now nearly finished, a good year this one for me. Mine were grown in an old recylcling box on my patio in a spot that gets a lot of afternoon sunshine (and the patio area is a bit of a sun trap so it's usually very warm) and some cherry toms in a hanging basket. Still loads cropping on that but it's being threatened by my neighbour's bindweed. I'm giving them a few more weeks then he and his partner are coming over and we are attacking that fucking weed :mad:

Also put in some more garlic today, hope i have better luck with that over the winter than with my summer crop.

I love watching stuff grow above ground but finding those potatoes today was something else :cool:
 
Ring of Fire ready for harvest this weekend, a big harvest of bright red beauties.
Last of the jalapenos just about ready, looking forward to them stuffed with cream cheese.
Habaneros just beginning to orange. Hurry up, be winter soon!
 
ringo said:
Ring of Fire ready for harvest this weekend, a big harvest of bright red beauties.
Last of the jalapenos just about ready, looking forward to them stuffed with cream cheese.
Habaneros just beginning to orange. Hurry up, be winter soon!
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Chili crop been great here too, my window sils are still chocka with chili plants:cool:
 
Your chillis look ace! You grew scotch bonnets!


I planted various types of tomatoes at my mums- plum, cherry and beefsteak.
They cropped so well she supplied the local harvest festival and a sheltered accommodation block.





 
Melinda said:
Your chillis look ace! You grew scotch bonnets!

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they were the latest fruiting of all the varieties and I didn't think they were going to do much but they're really hot - so well worth it!

Unlike your beauties, our Beef tomatoes didn't do much at all (what with the crap summer) but the cherry toms were little stars - just picked the remaining green ones of Saturday so waiting for them to turn red. :)
 
We're getting quite a reasonable crop of leeks, sprouts and kale at the moment and some cabbages forming. :cool:

Finished eating the last of our stored spuds and carrots last week but have still got a couple of pounds of red onions, loads of garlic and a freezer full of berries. Not quite self sufficient yet :)
 
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