Canning

This year the garden and yard have been generous and plentiful.  We have tried to preserve some of their generosity.  We have also taken a few pictures along the way for yours, and our, enjoyment.  Some of the pics you may have seen, but I am guessing that some you haven't.  You see?  This is one of the problems of taking a blog hiatus...you can't remember which pictures you have posted, and it is overwhelming trying to look through every post for the past few months, so you just hope that with skimming through beforehand, you aren't repeating too much.

Mulberries.  Always plentiful.

 The mulberries don't always make it in to the jams and syrups we can. Some have to be enjoyed right then.

 Just some of the jars... We also made strawberry jam, but apparently there were no pics of the Berries beforehand.

 Eli enjoying the Mulberries.

 This year we had an amazing harvest of tomatillos.  We even had a purple variety.  The boys were good at peeling the husks.  Such good helpers I have. We canned them whole and made green salsa.

 One large tomato.  It is called a Kelloggs breakfast tomato.  Stupid name. Awesome tomato.

 Canning tomatoes.  We canned salsa.  We canned crushed tomatoes.  We canned tomatoes juice.  There was a lot of tomato processing around these parts.

 Eli "helping"

Shiloh Peeling tomatoes.

We also canned green beans.  We canned apples sauce and mulberry spiced applesauce.  We canned pickled spicy peppers and green chiles.  It has been a great harvest year.  It has made a lot of work for us, but it is totally worth it to us.