This year we home canned corn, grapes and tomatoes (see previous post) with lots of help from our family! We love having the grandkids (and their parents) come and help harvest, wash and bottle the garden bounty. It's so fun to all work together and create good memories and food!
Fresh corn is so good. The kids couldn't resist eating it raw while they were shucking!
Use a soft scrub brush to remove the last of the corn silk.
Using a large bowl to cut off the kernals from the cob helps catch them when they going flying.
Fill the jars to the top and then tap bottom of jar on the table to get it to settle to 1" headspace.
Add 1 tsp salt per quart
Fill with hot tap water, keeping 1" headspace.
Cap jars with hot lids and bands and put in pressure canner and cover with water.
Cover with lid, vent without weight for ten minutes after it's starts steaming. Then add weight and when dial reaches 10 pounds, reduce heat and start timing. Process quarts for 1 hr 20 min, then shut off heat and let cool.
Yum!!
The grapes smelled so good while we were picking them!
Of course there was a grape throwing contest with silbings-
Perfect day to sit in the shade and stem grapes :)
Derk used string to tie up the tomatoes this year and learned how to pinch off the sucker stems. This has made it so easy to pick this year!
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