Hello all,
I just finished making up some strawberry jam after picking some from the garden. I didn't think to take any pictures but it got me thinking about what everyone else grows/ &/or preserves. My partner & I have taken up making jams & preserves over the last two growing seasons as we can't use everything we grow fresh because there's just too much for us to eat.
This year we've grown:
5 varieties of tomato
3 varieties of bush beans
strawberries
raspberries (not a very successful year this year)
baby carrots
beetroot
spring onions
3 varieties of cucumber
zucchini/courgette depending where you're from
grey pumpkin
capsicum
chillies
lemons
apples
grapes
peas
plus basil, coriander, sage, thyme, rosemary, chives & oregano
Here's a couple of photos of our cupboard stockpile so far this season. There's still 6-8 weeks left of the growing season depending on when the first frosts start.
From right to left
12 jars zucchini salad
4 jars bread and butter cucumbers
3 jars bread and butter zucchini
6 jars pickled zucchini
16 jars of beetroot from two different batches
6 jars wild blackberry jam
2 jars strawberry jam that I just made.
That's what's left from what we have used or given away. We've also made Italian garlic and herb tomato sauce for pasta but we've used that already.
I just finished making up some strawberry jam after picking some from the garden. I didn't think to take any pictures but it got me thinking about what everyone else grows/ &/or preserves. My partner & I have taken up making jams & preserves over the last two growing seasons as we can't use everything we grow fresh because there's just too much for us to eat.
This year we've grown:
5 varieties of tomato
3 varieties of bush beans
strawberries
raspberries (not a very successful year this year)
baby carrots
beetroot
spring onions
3 varieties of cucumber
zucchini/courgette depending where you're from
grey pumpkin
capsicum
chillies
lemons
apples
grapes
peas
plus basil, coriander, sage, thyme, rosemary, chives & oregano
Here's a couple of photos of our cupboard stockpile so far this season. There's still 6-8 weeks left of the growing season depending on when the first frosts start.
From right to left
12 jars zucchini salad
4 jars bread and butter cucumbers
3 jars bread and butter zucchini
6 jars pickled zucchini
16 jars of beetroot from two different batches
6 jars wild blackberry jam
2 jars strawberry jam that I just made.
That's what's left from what we have used or given away. We've also made Italian garlic and herb tomato sauce for pasta but we've used that already.
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