It's seems amazing within a week of the solstice, but we are swinging into getting the harvest in now. The strawberries are abundant this year, as is the rhubarb. If you have never tried strawberry rhubarb pie filling, you are missing out. Two parts strawberry, two parts rhubarb, one part sugar by volume. Water bath can for fifteen minutes.
strawberry rhubarb canning by British Red, on Flickr
We did ten pints of fruit and ten of syrub today (today's strawberry pick was nine and a half pounds). We hope to do three runs before we run out of rhubarb, then its solo strawberries and jam using last years pectin.
Next harvest will be garlic, its about ready. Early over wintering onions are not far off either.
strawberry rhubarb canning by British Red, on Flickr
We did ten pints of fruit and ten of syrub today (today's strawberry pick was nine and a half pounds). We hope to do three runs before we run out of rhubarb, then its solo strawberries and jam using last years pectin.
Next harvest will be garlic, its about ready. Early over wintering onions are not far off either.