Greens!

Picked some more greens yesterday.

16 oz of beet
24 oz of turnip

And I am going to have to pick and can more turnip greens soon ....

Apple Chutney

I like spicy vinegar flavors with my greens, so after reading the Ball Blue Books recipe i decided that Apple Chutney sounded like an excellent chance to practice my canning and create something for the greens.

2lbs small apples
3 cups brown sugar
4 cups apple cider vinegar
1 whole yellow onion
All spice
Garlic
Red pepper flakes

I'll look up the recipe later and republish ...

either way I have been enjoying it on the greens as expected.

Mustard Greens

So this Sunday 11-10-13 I picked my first round of mustard greens.

The picking filled a plastic shopping bag and weighted in at 1.5lbs.

on a side note the tomatoes are growing and I can't wait!

Turnip Greens! Pictures too

I ordered an All American Pressure Cooker/Canner and it came in today!

Just in time to pick some turnip greens! One of the best things about growing Turnip Bulbs is that you can also harvest the Greens a few times before you have to pick the bulbs...

That bag weighted in at 45.5 Oz; including the bag. I haven't gotten to weight the bag out to subtract it from the weight of the greens.

All Said I now have 5 - 24 OZ jars processing; sorry no picture of these.

Each jar was processed using the manufactures and Ball Blue book.

Tomatoes!

One of the Cherokee Purple Tomatoe plants has set fruit finally!

I was having problems with blossom drop. Which thanks to my dad I found out could have been caused by one or all three things; temperature stress, calcium deficiency, or water.

I applied 1/4 cup milk to each plant and wala I have tomatoes that have set!