Canning Recipies

Green beans (two cups)
  Wash all beans and trim the edges
  Fill canning jars tightly leaveing one inch of space at the top (if wanted add one teaspoon of canning salt per quart)
  If using a dial-gauge pressure canner, process for twenty minutes
  If using a weighted-gauge pressure canner, process for twenty minutes

Tomatoes (one tomato)
  Wash and dip in a pot of boiling water until the skin splits then dip it in cold water
  Peal off the skin and take out the core
  Add lemon juice of citric acid to the jar
  Boil a pot of water then pour in jar over the tomatoe leaveing half an inch of space at the top
  If using a boiling-water canner process for forty minutes
  If using a dial-gauge pressure canner process for fifteen minutes
  If using a weighted-gauge pressure canner process for fifteen minutes

Some Freezing Recipies

Green Beans two cups
  Compleatly submerge in salt water and let soak for fifteen minutes
  Put into pot of boiling water for three minutes
  Rinse in cold water
  Put in a freezer bag then place it in the freezer


Broccoli two cups
  Compleatly submerge in salt water and let soak for fifteen minutes
  Put into pot of boiling water for three minutes
  Rinse in cold water
  Put in a freezer bag then place it in the freezer



Tomatoes one tomatoe
  Place in a freezer bag and put it in the freezer
  If you want it diced then dice the tomatoe, place it in a freezer bag and place it in the freezer

Plant Trouble

Are you haveing troubel with your plants? Is there an unknown problem?
Here are a few links that can help.

University of Minnesota Extension Service

 

http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/

 

http://www.extension.umn.edu/gardeninfo/components/info_vegetables.html

World Wars and Gardening

Durring World War 1 and World War 2 things like store bought veggies in a can were not common. Insted of buying canned goods from a store people would plant their own gardens called Victory Gardens. They would grow all their vegetables in a Victory Garden and can their own vegetrables. A good source for learning more about this is the American Girls; Molly because her family has a Victory Garden.


Here is an add from  World War 1

Here is an add from World War 2



Coloring pictures

Below are some pictures you can color or you can print it small and use it as a labels containers.

Food Preservation Links

Here are some interesting links that I used to learn about food preservation.

http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ex-Ga/Food-Preservation.html New and old ways of preserving food

http://www.freshpreserving.com/ Ball caning recipes

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp food-Preservation recipes

Seed to Your Table

How does a seed go from a plant in a field to a store to your table?

 The process isn't complicated but it is a long one. For this example I'll use corn because it is easy to undersand and most people know what it is. First the corn seed is planted in a field with a lot of other corn seeds. The seeds are then watered by an irigation system or rain or both. Some times the plants are treated with pesticids to keep the bugs off. They are also treated with nitrogen, phospherus and potassiam to promote growth. Once the corn has finished growing it is harvested and sold to a processer who prepares it for selling to a store by canning it, freezing it or just selling it as is. The store buys the corn and puts it on a shelf where you grab and by it. After you've bought the corn you take it home and prepare it for your table.