Beets

 

Garden update

 

Blueberry haul

 

Chicken down

 One of the chickens passed today.  Only one  left

Potatoes and broccoli

 

got a few small potatoes before the plants died 

Peas

 Starting to get some peas

Cherry tree

 Even with the net I only got a few cherries .... it seems the squirrels got them 

Main planting 2024

 

Beets blueberries and greenhouse

 

Peas and tomato and pepper starts

 

The plan 2024

 

Starting seeds 2024

 Soaked pepper seeds in tea overnight 

Started onions and carrots 

Potted pea sprouts in greenhouse 

Chicken stock 2024

Chicken  stock 

Put carcass in the pressure canner for 3 hrs @ 15 lb to extract everything.  Strain bring to a boil put in jars and process in canner for 20 min pints 25 min quotes @10 psi.

End of the garden, 2023

 The garden is done for the year, the exception of some cabbage and broccoli. 

Scorpion Ghost Hot Sauce 2023

 

Canned Venison

Remove all fat from meat

Cut into 1 in cubes 

Soak in a salt brine (1 TBS per quart) for one hour.

Drain and Pack cubes tightly into clean jars.

Add 1/2 bullion cube per pint; 1 bullion cube per quart. 

Add 4 slices of onion per pint 8 per quart.

Do not add any water in jars.

Clean jar edge, add ring and top, and turn to fit snugly- not tight.

Add jars to canner 

Process at 10 pounds pressure: 75 minutes for pints; 90 minutes for quarts.

Remove canner from heat and let jars cool slowly out of draft with weight left on canner

Notes

I added 1 bullion cube per pint