This Year's Canning
2010
July
Peaches from our Early Elberta tree (3 years old):
10 quarts peaches
Grapes from our 4-year-old vines:
8 quarts grape juice
Apples from one of our espaliered trees:
2 pints apple butter
10 half-pints apple-butter
and
3 quarts applesauce
I bought 80 pounds of peaches for .33 a pound. $26.40 in peaches gave me:
40 quarts peaches
We were given 160 pounds of bananas:
14 quarts bananas
19 4 oz. jars banana baby food
These apricots came from my Sister-in-law's tree, and from my tree:
8 half-pints apricot baby food
3 4 oz. jars apricot baby food
June
Figs are from our mission fig tree. I dried most of them.
3 half-pints fig jam
9 4 oz. jars fig jam
Aprciots from our tree and from one sister-in-law's tree:
27 half-pints apricot jam
1 4 oz. jar apricot jam
2009
January
14 pints clementines
February
7 quarts white beans
April
Our local grocery store had a sale on Golden Delicious apples for .49 a pound.
I asked the produce man for 4 boxes, which was 160 pounds of apples. We ate about 1 1/2 boxes (60lbs of fresh eating), and I canned the rest. I canned:
40 quarts applesauce
14 pints applesauce
4 half-pints applesauce
June
I was able to glean peaches and apricots from a woman who was not going to eat all of the ones from her trees. We are eating a lot of them. I am canning the rest. I canned:
14 quarts peaches
7 quarts apricots
6 quarts apricot nectar
18 pints apricots
7 half-pints apricot nectar/baby food
4 4 oz. jars peach baby food
8 4 oz jars apricot baby food
July
We harvested grapes from our garden for the first time. The grapes were all labeled "Red Flame Seedless." They are neither red, nor seedless. This is my first time making grape juice. I have decided to only filter it once, though it would be clearer if I filtered it twice. It would also mean less juice.
17 quarts grape juice
2 pints grape juice
For the first time, I have enough tomatoes to can. I am making sauce, which yields very little sauce for the amount of tomatoes. This is my first time making sauce. The taste is fabulous!
1 quart red tomato sauce
1 quart yellow tomato sauce
1 pint yellow tomato sauce
August
I bought 324 pounds of peaches at .49 a pound, and 144 pounds of pears at .59 a pound. My total was $250; my supposed "savings" was over $1000! (haha; I would never have paid $2.99 a pound for peaches!) The manager had to override it because I had saved "too much", when all I did was pay the sales prices from the ad!
165 quarts peaches
7 quarts peach nectar
46 quarts pears
1 quart pear sauce
5 pints pear sauce
35 half-pints pear baby food
8 4 oz. pear baby food
September
Apples are on sale for .50 a pound right now. I bought 400 lbs of apples (Gala and Granny Smith were on the sale) and I madeapplesauce again. We have already eaten almost all of the applesauce that I canned in April.
18 quarts applesauce
1 half-pint applesauce
October
The rest of September's apples that we haven't devoured:
82 quarts applesauce
9 pints applesauce
11 half-pints applesauce
16 4-oz. jars applesauce
9 half-pints apple butter
1 4-oz. jar apple butter
Want to know more about home canning? See Fruits and Vegetables