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Ok so I have an overwhelming amount of vegetables and fruit right now to do "something" with. They won't stay good enough to sell at the market that long and I have been using some every day for lunch.
What do you do with your extra garden stuff?
I truly don't enjoy food processing. I love cooking, and I love selling stuff at the market, but I have to do something with what's left after that , which is considerable. Potatoes ( not dug up yet) and onions are easy, you just harvest them and store them, but what about all the extra vegetables? I spent hours a few days ago making 8 and a half jars of crab apple jelly. It tastes very good, I could sell it but will probably keep it, but my gosh what a hassle that is! You have to cut the apples in half and remove stem and end, boil them in water, strain, add sugar then boil the jelly for a long time . Then the jars have to be washed and sterilized , then you water bath can the jelly. The worst part is cutting up the tiny apples. My back hurt from all that sitting and bending.
Cucumbers: just how many pickles can you eat? We eat them and like them, but I don't need 10 quart jars of pickles a year . I only have 2 cucumber patches ( a few plants) but they have so many of them on there I just dont know what to do with them. We had a whole box full at the market, sold like 10 because EVERYONE is selling them right now
Tomatoes
zuccini , don't even get me started on those, bread casserole stuffed freezing them
and now I have 10 large cabbages to do something with. I will make kimchi but not sure if you can freeze cabbage?
what do you do with your extra produce ?
maybe I need to have smaller gardens ?
What do you do with your extra garden stuff?
I truly don't enjoy food processing. I love cooking, and I love selling stuff at the market, but I have to do something with what's left after that , which is considerable. Potatoes ( not dug up yet) and onions are easy, you just harvest them and store them, but what about all the extra vegetables? I spent hours a few days ago making 8 and a half jars of crab apple jelly. It tastes very good, I could sell it but will probably keep it, but my gosh what a hassle that is! You have to cut the apples in half and remove stem and end, boil them in water, strain, add sugar then boil the jelly for a long time . Then the jars have to be washed and sterilized , then you water bath can the jelly. The worst part is cutting up the tiny apples. My back hurt from all that sitting and bending.
Cucumbers: just how many pickles can you eat? We eat them and like them, but I don't need 10 quart jars of pickles a year . I only have 2 cucumber patches ( a few plants) but they have so many of them on there I just dont know what to do with them. We had a whole box full at the market, sold like 10 because EVERYONE is selling them right now
Tomatoes
zuccini , don't even get me started on those, bread casserole stuffed freezing them
and now I have 10 large cabbages to do something with. I will make kimchi but not sure if you can freeze cabbage?
what do you do with your extra produce ?
maybe I need to have smaller gardens ?