Channeling Sophie's Garden

Carol's garden is in Port Hope MI, in a rural, lakeside community. She has lots of space and expertise. Laura' garden is located in Centralia WA, in a small suburban yard challenged by access to sun and space. Debbie's garden is in Deckerville MI, in a smaller rural yard, where rules are ignored.

Each of us is applying what we learned at at our mother's and grandmother's knees in space once owned by Sophie Mayer Birg Harter on Rangeline Road. Sophie immigrated to Detroit in 1908 from Heufeld, a once German (Donauschwaben) community of Hungary. Her hope lives on.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Canning marathon

Mom came to stay with us this weekend, I think I wore us out!! We canned 9 quarts of dill pickles,
5 pints of raspberry-gooseberry jam, 3 pints of pickled beets, we used a new recipe using red wine vinegar it was good. We froze 8 quarts of kohlrabi and then made 2 large jars of refrigerator dill pickles. It was fun canning with Mom. She helped peel and wash vegetables.

The peppers are starting, I found a recipe in Mother Earth News to make homemade hot sauce, it sounds good if anyone wants the recipe it should be on this months website. If I get a good bunch of hot peppers I am going to try it.
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  1. LRSeptember 2, 2011 at 11:17 AM

    That sounds good. I am going to try making a chili sauce this weekend, so will look at this recipe.

    Hope your vacation was fun. Can't wait to hear all about it.

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