Netty-- I freeze spinach and chard in. Not really canning as you know it, right? At any rate, all of what we freeze-in we boil for three minutes, then into the ice water for three minutes and then bag and freeze. If we had kale we would do it the same way.
Mart this is the peeler I have. I love it!! https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/sho...MIsv6jy5DS6wIVF2-GCh2UbADEEAQYASABEgI4ePD_BwE
I like the looks of that thing, Netty. I think that I have seen one of those , not sure though. What a beautiful thing you have there.
Netty I have been looking at those and others similar ! Only thing I wonder about is,, these fall pears are hard as a brick and not exactly smooth ! Do you think it would work ?
Actually gooseberries and cape goose berries are different. Physalis is also known as ground cherries for us. or husk cherries.
I have frozen corn so far. about 30 dzn ears. I need to do greenbeans, applesauce and potatoes yet. maybe some stew and or soup. have oodles of kale I keep forgetting to pick for my markets. broccoli that probably won't be ready to take to the farmers markets but I suppose we can eat it. maybe. eggplant... umm chuck that as soon as the market is done too. I can't get my family excited about it. and lots of butternut squash. I could feed all of you and have it left over. lots of raspberries coming on and I will pick and put some of those in the freezer and make jam yet. I might do some tomatoes. but honestly nothing much now until October for me. I have 3 more farmers market weekends for the year (6 markets as we do 2 every saturday) and I am done. I will clean up the garden and do my canning as soon as I am done running for the markets.I am tired. it has been my busiest year so far. more new customers at my stand in the past month than all of last year I think
I will freeze stewed tomatoes. That's it. But I do have enough onions potatoes and garlic to last most of the winter.
Mart - I think you should be fine with hard pears. As long as you have the strength to get the pear onto the 'holder' on the peeler it will work. I have had issues where things are too ripe/soft and just spin on the holder so hard is better in this case.
Well,, not in this case Netty ! I bought one of those and although the first one did great,, the others did not so I will save the peeler for apples !
Oh dear, your pears must have gotten too soft. I tried to use mine to make zucchini noodles but the inside was too soft too. Does work great for apples, and I've done potatoes for canning with it too.
