As another season draws to a close in the Pacific Northwest we are still getting the last of the tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. This has been a year for the cucumbers as they seem to be never ending. The real winners this year were SMR pickling and White Wonder both from MIGardener (www.migardener.com). We have..
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Pickles, Pickles, Pickles! The weather this year has been just what the cucumbers were looking for. Everyday there is a harvest to be had. This year we are growing Wisconsin SMR Pickling Boston Pickling White Wonder Straight 9 All varieties from MI Gardener We are making lots and lots of fermented varieties which will have..
Read moreDeliciousness in Fruit Form
This week I was able to get 20 pounds each of Elephant Heart Plums and Freestone Peaches. This has made for a busy weekend of processing and canning. We processed and froze the peaches for future use. Then we processed the plums for plum jam. We have discovered that plums have a lot of natural..
Read moreGot Beet Tops to Use – Make Kimchi!
This time of year it seems we have lots of vegetation that ends up in the compost bin from the garden harvest. Some things don't have to end up there, one example is beet tops. This year I decided to try to turn them into something that we could eat instead of just turning them..
Read morePickled Asparagus
This week we had the opportunity to get asparagus from the group that is driving to eastern Washington to get excess produce that would otherwise go to waste. We decided to pickle it to preserve it. We found an awesome recipe in WECK Small-Batch Preserving, see recipe below.
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We are still working our way through the 50 pound bag of onions that I got. Seemed like an awesome deal until you have to do something with all of them. We are about halfway through the bag with a lot of work left to do. Today's endeavor was pickled onions that I canned for..
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