Here is a great website on processing times for water bath and pressure canning freezing, tips and more...

The National Center for Home Food Preservation

~Kris

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....is bringing me home 2 bushels of organic apples from a local organic farm, He called me and told me the price and it was good so we had the man mix 4 different kinds in each of the bushels so I have red delicious, gala, johnathan and fuji...this combo makes the absolute best apple sauce and apple butter...and you can bet that tonight for dessert will be having homemade apple pie....yuuuummmmmy! I am also going to put up some apple pie filling and just plain apples...We are blessed!

~Kris

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I canned another 10 pints of green beans last night and figure by mid week I will have about 20 more canned...Our green beans are really doing well and I am so thankful...Its a lot of work but so worth it when I see all those wonderful jars in my pantry!

~Kris

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Well, we got a little bit of the garden done today, we changed a few things from our original plan--I got to thinking about how much canning I would have to do, not that I mind canning, but there is only so much a woman wants to do in a day--LOL--so we slimmed down on the 'maters and a couple of other things.

Here's what we got in:

• 18 'mater plants
• 4 rows of peaches and cream corn
• 2 rows of snow peas
• 3 rows of bush green beans

We still need to plant:

• 9 yellow squash plants
• 9 cucumber plants
• 9 sweet banana pepper plants
• 3 Jalepeno plants
• 9 okra plants
• Watermelon
• Canteloupe
• and 100 onion sets

Hopefully tomorrow we can finish up, but I hear we have rain on the way---imagine that---LOL...but at least we got started!

~Kris

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Finally...the day has arrived to plant the garden...its has been so wet here with all the rain that we have not been able to get it in, but we are hopeful that we can get it all done today....I am excited to get out there and begin planting...will post later what all we planted!

~Kris

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I got my garden in day before yesterday...LOL...it warmed up so nice that me and dd spent most of the day hoeing rows and planting...

What we planted :

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